Public Workers in Wisconsin Protest Plan to Cut Benefits

The attack on Public Sector Unions is the next phase of a Republican strategy that strikes at the heart of the strength of the Democratic Party. No ifs ands or buts! The state of fiscal emergency across the country will be the pretext to dismantle all the hard won gains of working people in the 20th Century. The 21st Century marks the rise of the political irrationalism that is the Republican Party of 2011: “Free Market Capitalism” failed to deliver on the promise of the “Financial Reform” of 1999, without doubt. Now to cover their collective asses, the ‘Right Wing Apologists for the Failure of Capitalism’ freely invent the big lie of the calumny of the Public Sector Unions, their newest scapegoat. Mort Zuckerman has made this his newest cause, in at least two articles on the Huffington Post in the last two years: creating sources that can be quoted by others to add legitimacy to this vile but useful lie for political gain; with a will to create a two tired society based on the power of bosses and the acquiesces of the rest of us!
Unapologetically,
Democratic Socialist

Update 1:

Govenor Walker argues, quite rationally, that he has no choice in the matter but to cut deeply: yet we see record profits, obscene profits, pre 2008 profits, for American Business! How do we explain to ourselves, as we deal every day with the consequences of the fiscal irresponsiblity of  American Capitalism: we also watch as no one is held accountable for the Financial Collapse of 2008, but Public Sector Unions as the most convenient target of publicly expressed animus. Are we Great Britian? Cutting Public Libraries etc. The answer might be found in a modified Keynesianism.

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