The Republicans in Wisconsin stripped all of the financial issues from their Union busting bill and passed it today, reversing 50 years of the progress of the labor movement in 30 minutes.
When Obama was trying to roll back Bush’s tax cuts for the rich, Republicans screamed that ‘raising taxes’ on people making over $250,000 per year hurt the middle class. Now, a teacher making $40,000 or a nurse making $35,000 is a cushy Union thug breaking the back of the state.
It should surprise no one that the Republicans never gave a shit about the middle class. The Senate Majority leader in Wisconsin, who pushed through the anti-Union bill, admitted on Fox News (surprise!) that they wanted to destroy Unions to hamper funding the Democratic party.
If we win this battle, the money is not there under the auspices of the unions, certainly what you’re going to find is President Obama is going to have a much more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of Wisconsin.
Conservatives need to fix their damn party. No conservative I know has ever told me that the number one problem in the United States is teacher’s ability to collectively bargain.
It’s the most recent visible proof that the Koch-sucking Republicans will gleefully destroy the country if it makes their paymasters happy. Of course, this is on the heels of Speaker Boehner’s “Let them eat cake” moment on the Republican plan to kill 200,000 jobs, as if they didn’t just take over the House campaigning on creating jobs. As always, it’s foolish to think that Republicans would care about actually creating jobs, since that phrase is just Reaganomic code for more tax cuts for the wealthy.