The last check on democracy-the free press has officially been sold. SHAME! I'm sending 50$ to Barrett from PA,compared to 31 million from who knows to Walker.We out here in the rest of the country see the real news. We hope; we know where NOT to find it! Go Dems!
Companies like AT&T, Wal-Mart, NRA, Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp, Koch Brothers, BestBuy and Staples (Bain Capital companies) sit on the board of ALEC. The public and the news corporations are not invited to attend when meetings between the corporate lobbyists get to meet one-on-one with State Senators, Judges, and Governors to discuss wants and desires of the corporations. After these meetings votes are made by all attending lobbyists and government representatives to have ALEC author bills per the voting results. The public has no say in the matter. The news has no knowledge of the voting results. A few months later, legislation is created, that not only is presented to the legislators to pass with a wink wink that political contributions will be forthcoming that they can get credit for and claim is their own legislation if they change a few words, here and there, but presented to other state legislators in other states if they will accept and pass the bills, too. Alec is behind the profit motives of the NRA-backed gun manufacturers and presented more than 20 states with similar "No retreat legislation". Alec is also behind the multiple state attacks on voting rights initiatives, as well as the offensive bills to remove fair pay for women and right wing attacks on the rights of women to choose. Many corporations have dropped off the roles of ALEC, but those I mentioned are still there, along with many more. And Americans, like you and I, are not allowed to voice our vote in these meetings.
There are other layers to peel away before congratulating Amazon.com.
http://www.motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/07/ohio-warehouse-temps-unemployment
It's the same in telecom companies in California. They can let us go for no reason at all. Typically, they hire triple the amount of people needed and work all of them less hours. Here, if there is no union, there are no seniority rights, so us old-timers in the company get about 25 hours a week, just enough to keep the companies from having to pay unemployment benefits for us. Typically, it was like this: Go out and start the next construction job. As soon as the design work and the cable routes were established and the big cables were installed, out for the old-timers and in for all the minimum wagers for the rest of the job. Promises made to the customers that qualified personnel would be on the jobs were totally ignored and many jobs went bad after we went home. But it takes on the same claim that Texas has, that more jobs are created after imposing these "new rules", so the governor can take credit for the number of people working, but no one makes enough to pay all of their bills and the customers do not get better quality. This is hippocrisy at its worst and only serves to weaken union and private worker benefits even more in exchange for the additional profits the corporations will make.
This is an exceptionally clear, factual and conscise report of a somewhat complicated web of international corruption affecting empires. Everyone in the English speaking world needs to be radically concerned here. Murdoch brings the whole news industry into a race to the bottom where global security -financial, military, environment- is jepodized for the sick pleasure of this man and his coup associates who are anti-democratic, oil addicted warlords - a relic of the past.
Journalists, reporters and editors need to do whatever they can to irradicate this tyrant of the media, get him off your backs FOR GOOD and restore much needed truth in the interest of sustainability.
If not now, when? If not we, who?
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