Yes! This is the continuation of the division of the rich and the poor and it ends when America becomes a third world country.
74%
No! Labor balances money in the workplace and labor will prevail on making that argument successfully.
26%
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Considering there is no left that isn't co-opted by the financial elites into doing their bidding of course Labor will pay the price - just as it has for the last 40 years -
Labor has been basically threatened by the democrats into accepting peanuts and a lowering standard of living by a democratic party that has been captured by the financial elites - the vampire squids as Matt Taibbi calls them -
couple that with the open hatred of labor by the repub's and we have one party that claims to be for labor while making cut after cut to Labor's interests and another party that is out front and open about their hatred of organized Labor while supporting Monopoly predator capitalism .......
and NO party that truly supports or defends Labor -
come on dem apologists- time to break out the cognitive dissonance..........
Regarding the "exhorbitantly high pensions" of public workers, esp public safety officers..............one of the reasons for those levels that I haven't heard mentioned is that the cutbacks in local budgets result in the current workers having to put in more overtime (voluntarily or involuntarily) just to cover the basic needs, and then this additional overtime results in higher pensions as these workers retire.
MANY of these employees would prefer that more people be hired to spread out the work, so that they can actually spend some time with their families, but the public would rather demonize the high pensions of those that actually make it to retirement.
I guess my handle describes how I feel. It is time to gather in the streets and take this country back from the greedy CEO's we need to collectively stop purchasing material items and put a bind on these huge companies that are destroying this country, I am so afraid that we are heading into a financial crisis that no one has ever seen the likes of. It is as so many have been saying bankrupt the country and give it all to Wall Street, and the rich. I am cancelling my DNC membership and will no longer support the Democratic party. They have gone so far to the right that we are currently stuck with two right wing war machine parties that are about to take us middle class and the poor all down. Let' make this another Egypt and do it soon. Someone with the ability to organize a mass demonstration please step forward.
Walker's idea is BAD. But unfortunately with a republican dominated legislature he will probably push it through.
When Billy Clinton signed the international trade agreements, I moaned, and thought, "They are trying to turn the U.S. into a third world country." Now 15-20 years later, the rest of the country is beginning to understand. Is it too late? I hope not. We need to balance our consumption with how to sustain our planet, our home.