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Newly-Released Video Shows Walkers Divide And Conquer Strategy Against Labor
A newly released video in Wisconsin could potentially have profound effects on the states recall election: Republican Gov. Scott Walker shown telling a wealthy supporter in January 2011 before he introduced his legislation to roll back collective bargaining for public employees that it was part of a divide and conquer strategy to take down organized labor, and potentially turn Wisconsin into a right-to-work state.
The video, posted Thursday night by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, was shot on January 18, 2011, by documentary filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein, as part of a documentary project As Goes Janesville, about that industrial citys efforts to recover from the loss of their old General Motors Plant. The Journal Sentinel notes that Lichtenstein has donated $100 to Walkers Democratic opponent in the recall, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
The video clip shows Walker meeting with Beloit billionaire Diane Hendricks, who has since donated $510,000 to Walkers campaign. Hendricks asked: Any chance well get to be a completely red state, and work on these unions, and become a right-to-work what can we do to help you?
Well, were going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill, Walker said. The first step is were going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer. So for us, the base we get for that is the fact that weve got - budgetarily we cant afford not to. If we have collective bargaining agreements in place, theres no way not only the state but local governments can balance things out
That opens the door once we do that. Thats your bigger problem right there.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/newly-released-video-shows-walkers-divide-and-conquer-strategy-against-labor.php
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Glad to see someone managed to get down on tape what these gangsters won't dare put down on paper.
rocktivity
(44,572 posts)but only if they're unionized!
rocktivity
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)He has de facto immunity, just like all the war criminals and banksters.
Bluzmann57
(12,336 posts)For busting Unions. The reason is because it often works. But Wisconsin Union members look to be standing strong against this asshole. As we all should. I want to be able to paraphrase the late Howard Cosell after the recall election and say "Down goes Walker!"
valerief
(53,235 posts)myrna minx
(22,772 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)I'm hoping Walker ends up a cattle farmer's BOOT-BRUSH of history!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,497 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)tcaudilllg
(1,553 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)doors and they get away with it instead of discussing these issues on the floor of congress. I think they know they would lose. I would tell anyone living in a state that doesn't have a right to work state make sure you fight it. An employee as no rights. It is that simple.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)instead of smiling, bailing them out, and letting banksters and war criminals walk around free, rich, and happy.
Maybe after President Obama is re-elected, he can appoint an Attorney General that will prosecute some of them.
zzaapp
(531 posts)lutefisk
(3,974 posts)He supposedly worked in marketing for the American Red Cross for a few years after he dropped out of college. He's been running for office his whole adult life, though.
Interesting background story:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3KcaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mj8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4753,7161800&dq=scott+walker+ibm+wisconsin&hl=en
pansypoo53219
(20,955 posts)like he got his minions to do from that veterans org.
crunch60
(1,412 posts)mwooldri
(10,301 posts)Old joke between members of St. John Ambulance Brigade in UK and the British Red Cross. St. John refer to the Red Cross jokingly as the Dead Loss. Both organizations provide volunteer ambulance services (more so St. John). In our area it's friendly rivalry and if a public event comes up that needs first aid coverage and St. John can't do the local Red Cross may be able to cover and vice-versa.
Working for a non profit though... I gotta sometimes wonder whether those donations are paying more for staff salaries or paying for actual services.
arthritisR_US
(7,283 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)crunch60
(1,412 posts)their overlords, who are willing to work for no benefits, low pay and max hours. Soften up the population so they will accept almost anything, Every day they take a little more, and give a little less, until this is acceptable as the norm.
Get rid of the superfluous population, the poor, sick and elderly, as they do not serve the oligarchs in their quest for absolute power and financial gain.
OWS is our hope for the future, I hope they grow stronger every day despite the atrocities that many have endured .
arthritisR_US
(7,283 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,619 posts)They tell us to get off welfare, get private health insurance, and enjoy the pride of a pay check.
Then when we find a decent union job with benefits, they suddenly scream that we're earning too much.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)CatWoman
(79,293 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Scott Wanker, anti-American coward, liar and fool all in one package.
No wonder Mittens endorsed him.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Why wasn't it put out last year?
benld74
(9,901 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)whathehell
(29,035 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)whathehell
(29,035 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)whathehell
(29,035 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)crunch60
(1,412 posts)The United States is a representative form of government with democratic principles.enshrined. Democracy: One man, One vote, is a wonderful invention of the Greeks. Justice and fairness, equality and rights of man, all spelled out in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
However, capitalism, is not democracy. Capitalism is at its core a despotic regime, and in its most beneficent form, a monarchy. The despotic form of capitalism is all-powerful to its workers, preys and calculates destruction of its enemies (competition) and there are few limits to the desire and mission to acquire more (growth through profits).
The monarch form is more in the manner of most small business, where an owner (The King) has a functional business and after his death, it is inherited by the children (Prince). The King is lord of the peasants (workers), and ensures their well-being also (salary, benefits). The peasants shall never own the land (business) or live in the castle. The current example is the son(s) of wealthy land barons (Koch Industries).
The exceptions to those are the role of non-profits fits more with a socialist form, shared contribution and limited function. The socialist form of economics does not have profit as its core, but service to its mission. The other variation is the diffused model, with shareholders and directors to oversee the corporation, little can be effected from anything less than a powerful position (51%), and most corporations are just shell setups, run by the same group of 1%ers with Growth through profit (greed) as their mission statements. Corporations are more despotic than monarchical.
Despotic and monarchical economics cannot tolerate social (non-profit), nor communist (unions) intrusions.
What comes to your mind when you hear the Code Words: "Property Rights"
There are several forms of capitalism. Which do we want?
Zambero
(8,962 posts)Access. Influence. Leverage. Expectations of immediate results. She clearly owns him.