We are watching you all from here in DC, where the Tea Party wants to throw half of our Section 8 tenants out of their homes with Federal budget cuts.
Like here in DC, you are fighting Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is reported to have gotten a tax break larger than the entire Wisconsin budget deficit, meaning this is a "war of choice" for the governor and the Tea Party.
All eyes are on Wisconsin right now, just as all eyes are on Bahrain and Libya in the wake of the Egyptian People's Victory. This is the "People's Super Bowl" except for one thing: It is the beginning, not the end of the season.
If you all can follow Green Bay's example and sack the Tea Party in Wisconsin, all those who push austerity will be put on notice that they cannot try this without paying a price. You may even prevent a Federal government shutdown that would stop Social Security checks and Medicare checks from going out!
started with his first inaugural address on Tuesday the 20th of January 1981: "...In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
Increasingly from 1981 to 2011, many Americans have become anti-government to the virtual extent that Glover Norquist's dream of drowning it in a bath is fast becoming a reality (figuratively speaking).
Reagan and the Republican mantra of no-tax and the smallest government possible has crippled government at all levels making this country less than what it was- less healthy, less educated, less environmentally friendly, less pacific and less democratic.
The "wealth" of America (and indeed much of the world) has been funneled from the Middle Class- the Working Class- directly to the Elite Class creating what a Scientific American article referred to as a "tidal wave of inequality". Economically, the United States is a "has been".
BTW,
Reagan and the Republican anti-government mantra is also indirectly responsible for the second worst terrorist attack on American soil.
You are proof positive that the corporate thugs are succeeding. You are one of the People, but you have been kicked by your masters for so long that you just lash out at whoever and whatever. Dragging down one group of people is NOT going to fix your situation. It won't fix ANY situation. But you have another choice: you could stand up for yourself. You could rally your co-workers, your friends and neighbors. You could dig deep and find the courage to tell the masters: I will not be your victim anymore. That is what is happening here.
So take responsibility for YOUR life. If you can't find the courage to stand up for yourself, then live with the consequences. Or, take a stand and finally see what it is like to live FREE.
Obviously, you are not a blue-collar worker and are living comfortably somewhere amidst the other country-club types and don't have family members who live paycheck to paycheck in the reality that is today's economy. When I cast my vote for Walker, I don't remember ANYTHING in his campaign about the fact that he was a Nazi tyrant who would screw the hard working citizens of Wisconsin. I for one, would like to CHANGE my vote for someone who screws the rich for a change and spares the deserving people who take a lot of crap from the general public and deserve to make enough to put food on the table. And no, I nor anyone in my family is an employee affected...
"The idea that Wisconsin teachers, nurses, firefighters, EMTs, police, prison guards, and other civil servants are not taking responsibility for thier lives is both offensive and absurd."
Well said...not only do they take responsibility for their own lives, but on a daily basis they take responsibility for the lives of others. They choose to work in the public sector for the good of others, not for their own gain in the private sector.
Thank you Ms. Graves!
started with his first inaugural address on Tuesday the 20th of January 1981: "...In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
Increasingly from 1981 to 2011, many Americans have become anti-government to the virtual extent that Glover Norquist's dream of drowning it in a bath is fast becoming a reality (figuratively speaking).
Reagan and the Republican mantra of no-tax and the smallest government possible has crippled government at all levels making this country less than what it was- less healthy, less educated, less environmentally friendly, less pacific and less democratic.
The "wealth" of America (and indeed much of the world) has been funneled from the Middle Class- the Working Class- directly to the Elite Class creating what a Scientific American article referred to as a "tidal wave of inequality". Economically, the United States is a "has been".
BTW,
Reagan and the Republican anti-government mantra is also indirectly responsible for the second worst terrorist attack on American soil.
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