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Writing for the American Prospect, Harold Meyerson offers a thought-provoking analysis on the effects of the backlash against Republican Gov. Walker’s drive to end collective bargaining for Wisconsin’s public employees.
Meyerson writes:
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was only speaking truth when he called Scott Walker, Wisconsin's Republican governor, the labor movement's "Mobilizer of the Year." The backlash against Walker's successful (for now) drive to end collective bargaining for Wisconsin's public employees has been stunning in its scope, intensity, and (ongoing) duration.
The big political question is how far and how deep that backlash will go. My first guess is that it has produced a shift in public opinion that will help America's unions, though it will take a lot more than public sympathy to rebuild labor's power. My second guess is that it will help the Democratic Party across the industrial Midwest.
AMERICA NEEDS 49 MORE SCOTT WALKERS!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWE MUST STOP SOCIALISM AND RESTORE FREEDOM!!!!
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Hi Ralph,
ReplyDeleteAre you referring to the freedom to starve to death or to die without needed medical care?
Or maybe unemployed parents could benefit from the freedom to allow their children to die so they would have fewer mouths to feed.
And of course, you support the freedom of five percent of the population to control 65 percent of the wealth - surely those good ol' boys shouldn't have to pay any taxes, right?