Tie the overtime legislation to the Homeland Security union busting

[PurityOfEssence]

The Republican Party hates working people. They were perfectly willing to leave us vulnerable to terrorism in 2002 unless they could crush the union protection of some 170,000 government employees. This wasn't the need for flexibility of an executive, this was the payback to corporate overlords by destroying organized labor. Literally, it is more important to George W. Bush to crush worker organizations than it is to protect us from Islamist Terrorists.

Now they're taking away overtime at a time when real wages for working people have been declining.

Their greedy ham-fisted stunt in '02 was even used to terrify the voters to turn against Democratic candidates and was carefully timed for an election cycle. If one really cares about one's people, one deals with National Security issues immediately, not when they can used for advantage.

Carville's right: "What's George Bush ever done for he little guy? Name me one thing George Bush has ever done for the little guy." It's worse than that: show us one thing he wouldn't do TO him to please his paymasters. He even has the effrontery and sniveling cowardice to hide behind Elaine Chao as she claims that this is designed to help workers, and will be to their advantage; it is designed to help management.

The Texas Republican Party has, as a plank, the elimination of the minimum wage. Paul O'Neill was on record in the Financial Times as being for eliminating Social Security, Medicare and all corporate taxation; he got his, though: he was shit-canned by the administration because he wasn't conservative enough.

Run with it.

[LoisMustDie]

1. But on the other hand

It's the working man who keeps putting these people in power. The classic laborer types I know are all huge bush/conservative supporters. These are the people who are being devastated by the conservative policies of the last 20 years.

While I on the other hand actually do benefit from the bush/republican policies and naturally I am not conservative nor a bush supporter.

That's okay cause I work harder then my brother in law who tars roofs in 100 degree temperatures for 9.50 an hour.....




hmmm............

[PurityOfEssence]

2. Lee Atwater knew what he was talking about

when he said that the best way for the Democrats to win a presidential election was by fighting class warfare.

It's precisely these people who need to be swayed, and that's why this is not only beneficial but necessary. The right snagged enough of the working class by spooking them that the Dems would give all their jobs to lazy ethnic so-and-sos, but the real issue is that taking away jobs and lowering wages screws the economy for everyone.