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Attacking America’s Middle Class
Right wing
power play
is shameful
the last year's election that he
intended to do this, he would've
lost.
After only one month in of­
fice, Walker's approval rating
has plummeted. He's become a
national poster boy for right-wing
by J im H ightower
anti-union extrem ism -so
W isco n sin G ov.
out of step that even de­
Scott Walker's auto­
mocracy fighters in Egypt
cratic attempt to ab­
are jeering him.
rogate the democratic
Yet, W alker is but one
right of public employ­
of a flock o f far-right,
ees to bargain with
co rp o rate-crested R e­
their governmental bosses is not publican governors and C on­
wearing well with the public.
gress critters w ho're waging
Recent polls show that a mere an all-out class w ar on union­
one-third of Wisconsinites favor ized workers. It's a sham eful
his blatantly political power play, effort to bust the wage struc­
and that if he had told voters in ture and legal protections that
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support A m erica's already en­
dangered m iddle class.
In Congress, loopy GOP lead­
ers are out to abolish the legal
mechanism through which work­
ers can form a union and have
their bargaining rights protected.
M eanw hile, w ar-w hooping
Republican governors in Ohio,
New Jersey, Indiana, and else­
w here are slashing the health
care and pension benefits owed
to public em ployees, w hile
blam ing these m idd le-class
w orkers for their states' fiscal
m esses.
But it was the economic crash
caused by Wall Street greed and
m a ssiv e tax g iv e a w a y s to
wealthy elites that depleted state
budgets, not firefighters' pen­
sions or teachers' health insur­
ance.
And check out Nevada, where
the Chamber of Commerce is
even pushing to eliminate the
minimum wage.
his corporate-funded Repub­
lican assault isn't about fiscal
responsibility.
The corporate powers intend
nothing less than to dismantle
the e n tire fra m e w o rk o f
America's economic democracy
and return us to the dark days of
Robber Baron plutocracy.
To the barricades, people!
Jim Hightower is a radio
commentator, writer, and pub­
lic speaker.
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