Daily Archives: February 18, 2011

The Maddow Blog – Wisconsin gov made his own problem

It turns out that Wisconsin’s “budget shortfall” it the direct result of Governor Walker and his allies pushing through tax cuts that CREATED the problem he’s supposedly trying to “fix”. Some more detail here.

As for taking rights away from public workers, there is no explanation how that saves money in the immediate future. With no rights, teachers and sanitation workers won’t be able to bargain for a fair wage and benefits in the future, but that’s not what the Governor purports to be doing.

No, Scott Walker is beholden to the evil bastiches who paid for his campaign, among them the Koch Brothers from Texas, who are working hard to destroy unions in our nation.

Jimmy Hoffa aside, unions have done a lot in this nation. You have weekends, usually 8 hour shifts, no kids in coal mines, and so on because of unions. Carnegie might have build a lot of libraries but he didn’t give a rat’s ass about the common man. And it wasn’t his job to. No company is paid to worry about what workers need. That’s kind of the point of capitalism and to believe otherwise is to be an idiot.

And so while carpet-bagging Tea Baggers are going to Wisconsin to “support Walker” even though THEIR jobs aren’t on the line, it’s mostly a sham to screw Americans out of even more rights.

And this isn’t just a Wisconsin or tea bagger thing. It is part of a national plan of attack on working men and women. And that’s as simple as it gets to explaining the situation there and across this land.

Robert Reich: The Attack on American Education

I was reminded of this post from a few weeks back when thinking about the situation in Wisconsin.

It isn’t just unions Republicans hate. Or common folks having the audacity to believe they have rights – or to even speak up to defend those rights. Nah, they just sic the National Guard on folks like that and act like the dictators we support around the world.

No, it’s learning they hate. People who work to learn things, particularly things they don’t even have to use for a job, scare them. Learning for learning’s sake confuses them. Knowing things that make you a better, more well-rounded person does not conform to the Republican belief of take orders, obey them, and shut up.

Knowledge is power and conservatives only can compute that money equals power. Anything outside that equation confuses them.

So learn something people. Do it just because you are curious. If you better yourself financially, great! But do it for your SELF, not your wallet.

I was actually argued with by a Facebook “friend” for posting the following: “Try to learn something new every day, because the more you know, the smarter you’ll grow.” That was Miss Rosa on the PBS kid’s programming block. I mean, seriously, who hates that kind of mentality? Why the fear and loathing of knowing more tomorrow than you do today?