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One of these things is just like the other

by: Lucy Edwards

Tue Jun 14, 2011 at 14:52:14 PM EDT
Reading this post on Balloon Juice about the latest plan by the GOP legislature in Wisconsin to get rid of collective bargaining, I wondered who was copying who.  Not that the Wisconsin legislature is using the same tactics as NH, but that the strategy is the same: eff the traditional process.

So much for transparency, so much for sunshine laws, and so much for the much-ballyhooed conservative respect for state tradition and norms.

National conservatives want collective bargaining rights stripped in Wisconsin and other states, they want that demand met now, today, and the only question Wisconsin Republicans had when given the directive to jump was "how high?"
Lucy Edwards :: One of these things is just like the other
Not only are they making a pretzel of the process, they are doing it for interests outside their state.  It is just a way for some corporation somewhere to make more profit, and a way to punish the middle class for having pretensions to a decent life for themselves and their children.  How dare they?!
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The people are the enemy. (0.00 / 0)
How can they be made to obey when their employers and their would-be rulers have to meet obligations under the law?  How can they be made to obey when their access to the necessities of life is secure? Social security relieves the aged of having to beg to be sustained, but it also relieves the younger generation of having to do triple duty -- caring for the young, themselves and the elderly.  To a large extent, our elders are a safety net for the people who take care of their needs. It's a safety net that enables the unemployed to be more selective about the jobs they take.
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