YES! Republicans will stop at nothing to pay poverty wages.
97%
NO! The great recession hit Detroit hard & they had no choice.
3%
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
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Detroit........... a victim of UNregulated capitalism.
Take a good look America, its the future of our country.
WHO failed??? WHO got bailed out with PUBLIC money????? Uhhhhm, the PRIVATE sector.
Government isnt the problem, its OUR government.
The problem is we allow the private sector to RUN our government !!
The Global War on Collective Bargaining!! The empty suits still walk away with their pensions intact. Everybody who sucks on the taxpayer's teat should have their pensions and insurance SUSPENDED until their is universal SINGLE PAYER health insurance and Social Security secured and stabilized. Without the lawyers further enriching themselves.
It's pretty easy to incite resentment and and jealousy in unionless, pensionless, and underpaid citizens. Just tell them that unionized public employees with pensions and a living wage bankrupted your city. Just don't tell them that the top 10 percent own 90 percent of all stocks, securities, and business assets.....they might start wondering why only unionized workers have decent wages and pensions.
Damn right it's to break unions!
Let be honest here. Every step of the way, it is middle class workers who chose the politics and policies that brought us to this point. It is middle class workers who have the power to block or demand whatever legislation they want. They have the power to virtually shut down the US economy, if that's what it takes. The post-middle class/poor never had those options. If the middle class chooses to do nothing, then nothing is all they deserve.
The middle class, Dems and Republican, supported deregulation for years. Currently, they support NAFTA and similar measures, as well as workfare replacement labor, prison labor, etc., all of which have been serving to phase out the middle class. Government can't do anything unless the middle class agrees to it, either explicitely or passively. For the most part, they express their rage by re-electing those who are screwing them over.