I'm IBEW 5, Pittsburgh.
What strikes me most about anti-worker initiatives like this, that the big money people get away with, is that they have a large swath of the general population, even union members, right where they want them, in terms of double think.
The same exact tea-bag crowd, who backed the super rich against the Dems' attempt to tax them more, by screaming that "America doesn't want shared sacrifice, they want shared prosperity! How dare you try to punish the billionaires for being successful?", turned around 180 degrees and backed every big money repug attempt to attack workers making a living wage, by screaming "Those union workers make too much! They're too successful, they're making more than a living wage! They're too greedy! We're in a financial crisis (that repugs created), so we all have to sacrifice and tighten our belt, union workers first!"
Acting like crabs in a barrel, pulling down the other crabs that are trying to climb out of the barrel.
It's the exact same teabags saying both things, screaming them really, vociferously. They worship the super rich plutocrats who own Boeing, they think that if they suck up to the super rich, they'll somehow magically get some of that wealth-earning magic transferred to themselves by association, if they only adopt the 'right' values. And they hate anyone else who tries to rise above their 'rightful' station, who the plutocrats have declared the 'real enemy'.
We're fighting against those nazi imbeciles, the plutocrats who's asses they kiss, and the media who retails both of their double think statements as reasonable and not contradictory (because the plutocrats own that media.)
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