54 years ago Taft-Hartley was enacted as the Republicans tried to eliminate Unions

[DainBramaged]

Now you have a few very rich old guys (the Koch Brothers come to mind) using their elected tools to once again suppress the Unions.



How did we get here?


How did we allow the Government to once again destroy the lives of working-class America? Reagan used the Sherman Antitrust Act to bust up AT&T 18 years ago, do you think the politicians of today would break up the Koch Brothers or any of the other dozens of corporations that are destroying our lives and do conspire to gain wealth at the expense of the working class?


How did we get here?


How did Democracy become Corptocracy?


How blind our party leaders are. Or are they? Now I understand why they wanted to marginalize Howard Dean. Now I understand how some of the least qualified people in history now run State governments, and now I understand why the odds are stacked against us.


Greed.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Why do republicons HATE honest hard-working Americans?

Why is is Republicons want only to further enrich the already rich, while crapping all over honest, hard-working Americans?

And why would anyone pay cable TV to spew Fox-Republicon Propaganda into their home, so they can be convinced to vote for the rich and against themselves?

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[jtrockville]

6. Probably because we won't accept slave wages.

RE Faux: Oddly, even though many of these folks are retired and/or barely able to make ends meet, they still think they'll be elevated to "rich" status someday, then they won't be voting against their own interests.

[Javaman]

7. They all have been so brainwashed into thinking that they all have the potential to be

the next horatio alger.

"if it weren't for those dems holding us back, I could be a millionaire right now!!"

I guess they are still looking for their bootstraps that we dems hid.

morons.

[jtrockville]

8. And the irony is...

Without the worker protections afforded to us all (in large part) by unions, they'd have never even been able to earn a living wage, let alone become "rich".

Morons indeed.

[Javaman]

15. It's like they use machine guns to shoot themselves in the foot.

it's amazing isn't it?

[Doremus]

17. Yup! Hubby was watching that Gold Rush reality show the other day

It has chronicled the trials and tribulations of a group of gold prospectors up in Alaska. This pack of misfits hobbled together a few hundred thousand to dig for gold on a claim up there. They've committed one mistake after another. Backbiting, infighting, dangerous stunts out of ignorance, etc. Needless to say they lost their asses.

The de-facto leader's parting quote: At least we know that we can still do this in America!

Huh? Do what?
Go bankrupt and lose your home, business and family?
Apparently I missed it -- was your right to be stupid being threatened by something/someone?
What a bunch of ignorant losers.


:banghead:

[Javaman]

18. I'm waiting for the reality show...

where contestants are told to whack each other with baseball bats in the head repeatedly. The last person standing and conscious is the winner, but, here's the kicker, they aren't told what they win before hand. LOL

[Major Hogwash]

2. The Democrats in the US Senate need to start an investigation pronto into what is going on in Wis.

They need to look into the federal violations that may be occurring under the guise of "balancing the budget".

[HereSince1628]

3. Somehow DC hand-wringing seems inadequate to the task.

Hands that work for the donations of corporations generally can't do the work for labor.

The activist rich can do this on a national level because they have removed all significant opposition in DC.

[Major Hogwash]

4. Somebody has to do something, or this country is going to implode.

I've also heard that Senators like Kennedy used to help out the common man.
Maybe there are no more like him in the party now.

[HereSince1628]

5. The somebodies are doing it. In state capitals all across the nation

The class war has gone hot. And the people in the states aren't looking to DC because the fights are beyond the reach of the professional dems in DC.

[blindpig]

9. Why does Taft Hartley still exist?

There have been plenty of Democratic Party presidents and majorities in the interim. Why has no effort been made to overturn it? Whose side are they on?

[Major Hogwash]

10. The prevailing wage argument, I guess.

But, if they don't enforce it, it don't count.

[blindpig]

11. A purely capitalist argument.

As far as enforcement goes, I expect that we'll see how that works this year.

[Major Hogwash]

12. I'm not a communist.

I live in an urban area.

[blindpig]

13. What does one have to do with the other?

No comment upon yourself, just an observation.

[DainBramaged]

14. My point exactly. We are no longer the Party of the People...

:cry:


Why does a blindpig notice the obvious? (my new hero)

[superduperfarleft]

16. Nader talked frequently about the repeal of Taft-Hartley in 2008.

Although I don't remember hearing those words on the lips of any prominent Democrats around the same time.

inb4 hurr durr fuck nader!11

[indepat]

19. Was it 64 rather than 54 years ago?

;)