So its tax breaks for millionaires and austerity and budget cuts for programs that support the working and middle class. That my friends is the republican vision of America.
The right wing had no problem bailing out Wall Street millionaires and America's wealthiest bankers. Republicans had no problem holding unemployment benefits hostage until they obtained a ransom in the form of a tax breaks for the wealthiest 2% of Americans but when it comes to the rights of average American working folks, the hard working, real everyday people who built this country, who are the very backbone of it...well the right wing's answer is let them eat cake. To be sure, these people, America's working & middle class, go to work everyday and are in no way asking for a bailout or handout. They simply want to maintain their right to collectively bargain. It's as American as apple pie.
In the face of all of this, how these right wingers ever get anyone who works for a living to vote for them, especially if they wear a blue collar is baffling. Perhaps what is happening in Wisconsin will finally wake up working and middle class Americans everywhere to the fact that the republican right wing is not on your side. They never have been and they never will be. You don't make enough money for them to care.
Take a look at the video and tell me after watching it if you think that the right wing can win a war waged on television against the heart of America? I don't think the visuals favor the right wingers.
Make no mistake the right wing is at war with America and America needs to fight back.
Should this bill stripping public employees of the right to collectively bargain pass, in the short term these workers should shut it down. Just shut the state down for a week to remind the governor and those who support him how important these people and the work that they do are. In the longer term and more importantly they should look to organize politically and change the legislature and the governor to those who would value and support the working and middle class and not look to balance the budget on their backs.
Failing that, the large whooshing sound you should hear, if they had any sense and dignity at all, would be the sound of thousands of Wisconsin's professional public employees, firefighters, police, teachers, nurses, sanitation Workers, transit workers, prison workers among them leaving the state to find employment where their talents and their rights are more fully respected.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
TITANIC WASTE A FRAUD PERPETUATED
"A Pentagon study in January found that it had paid $285 billion in three years to more than 120 contractors accused of fraud or wrongdoing." (NY Times 02/18/11)
This is but one story and just the tip of the iceberg. We must cut the fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer money before we cut vital services to the American people.
The Republican led house is making a big deal these days about its desire to cut $60 billion from the upcoming budget. These cuts (some legitimate, many not and some, as with the proposed defunding of Planned Parenthood, solely ideologically and politically motivated) would not need to be so draconian were we able to stop the fraud, waste and abuse.
In budget debates around the country we are told over and over again that we have no money for the things that we really need. Its a bitter pill to swallow when the evidence shows that seemingly, we have plenty of money for things that we really don't need, don't work, or worse, don't exist. Government Tries to Keep Secret What Many Consider a Fraud - NYTimes.com
Perhaps Congress and the various State Legislatures around the nation who are crying poverty and swimming in debt should become serious about cutting the unconscionable fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer money before they look to cut the legs out from under hard working every day Americans by cutting or eliminating legitimate and much needed programs, services and protections that governments provide. The people responsible need to be held to account and those guilty of defrauding the taxpayers need to make restitution and go to jail.
Only then, will lawmakers be able to look the people in the eye with a straight face and say we have no money for those things which are really needed. To do otherwise is simply a fraud and perpetuates the abuse of the American taxpayer.
This is but one story and just the tip of the iceberg. We must cut the fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer money before we cut vital services to the American people.
The Republican led house is making a big deal these days about its desire to cut $60 billion from the upcoming budget. These cuts (some legitimate, many not and some, as with the proposed defunding of Planned Parenthood, solely ideologically and politically motivated) would not need to be so draconian were we able to stop the fraud, waste and abuse.
In budget debates around the country we are told over and over again that we have no money for the things that we really need. Its a bitter pill to swallow when the evidence shows that seemingly, we have plenty of money for things that we really don't need, don't work, or worse, don't exist. Government Tries to Keep Secret What Many Consider a Fraud - NYTimes.com
Perhaps Congress and the various State Legislatures around the nation who are crying poverty and swimming in debt should become serious about cutting the unconscionable fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer money before they look to cut the legs out from under hard working every day Americans by cutting or eliminating legitimate and much needed programs, services and protections that governments provide. The people responsible need to be held to account and those guilty of defrauding the taxpayers need to make restitution and go to jail.
Only then, will lawmakers be able to look the people in the eye with a straight face and say we have no money for those things which are really needed. To do otherwise is simply a fraud and perpetuates the abuse of the American taxpayer.
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