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CousinIT

(9,377 posts)
4. You can count on it. Their Project 2025 details their planned war on the working class
Sat Apr 13, 2024, 10:16 AM
Apr 13
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-war-on-working-class

Project 2025 offers a plan to thoroughly dismantle more than a century of workers’ achievements in the struggle for both dignity and simple on-the-job survival.

. . .

It’s not exactly news that conservatives, who present themselves as the friends of working people, often support policies that threaten not only workers’ livelihoods, but their very lives. This fall, as we face the most consequential elections of my lifetime (all 71 years of it), rights that working people once upon a time fought and died for—the eight-hour day, a legal minimum wage, protections against child labor—are, in effect, back on the ballot. The people preparing for a second Trump presidency aren’t hiding their intentions either. Anyone can discover them, for instance, in the Heritage Foundation’s well-publicized Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, a “presidential transition” plan that any future Trump administration is expected to put into operation.

As I’ve written before, TheNew York Times’s Carlos Lozada did us a favor by working his way through all 887 pages of that tome of future planning. Lacking his stamina, I opted for a deep dive into a single chapter of it focused on the “Department of Labor and Related Agencies.” Its modest 35 pages offer a plan to thoroughly dismantle more than a century of workers’ achievements in the struggle for both dignity and simple on-the-job survival.


Private Equity firms, not Hedge Funds. A HERETIC I AM Apr 13 #1
Gotcha. The article itself used "Hedge funds" and so does the name of the bill CousinIT Apr 13 #2
Think of a Hedge Fund as a Mutual Fund for "Qualified Investors" A HERETIC I AM Apr 13 #3
You can count on it. Their Project 2025 details their planned war on the working class CousinIT Apr 13 #4
They are turning Manufactured Home multigraincracker Apr 13 #5
I was shocked to find out that a coworker of mine pays 680 a month for the land rent on his mobile home. jimfields33 Apr 13 #8
Yes I pay 820 others pay 1000 just for lot rent owned by a LLC Oppaloopa Apr 13 #9
Yup, I was called by a recruiter to work for one of those TexasBushwhacker Apr 13 #13
The days of relatively low priced manufactured housing seem numbered. David__77 Apr 13 #14
I'm a Council Member (elected) and JustAnotherGen Apr 13 #6
It's part of the destruction of the economy through financialization jmbar2 Apr 13 #7
Let's not rule out another housing crash. twodogsbarking Apr 13 #10
Probably. The vulture funds got a taste of how much they could earn during the '08 calamity - and they want some more peppertree Apr 13 #11
They were trying to buy my home for a while, I guess they gave up. Hikerchick57 Apr 13 #12
Built a house in 88 and still here. It was on the edge of town when we built it. Now it is nearly the middle of town. twodogsbarking Apr 13 #15
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