Jim Hightower: The Kochs and the Guv Stir up a Hornets' Nest

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via CommonDreams:




Published on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 by Creators.com
The Kochs and the Guv Stir up a Hornets' Nest

by Jim Hightower





Thank you, Scott Walker! And you, too, Charles and David Koch! Thanks for being so ham-handed in pushing your self-serving, virulently anti-union agenda on the schoolteachers, health care workers, park rangers and other public employees of Wisconsin.

The Birchite billionaire Koch brothers and Walker, their gubernatorial hatchet man in the Badger State, have unwittingly done a tremendous favor for our country's progressive movement. Thanks to them, America's workaday majority has been awakened. With eyes wide open, middle-class working folks everywhere now have their attention riveted on Wisconsin, where a plutocratic, autocratic conspiracy between uber-wealthy corporate elites and obsequious GOP politicos has raised its ugly head for all to see.

Even before Walker was sworn in, Koch operatives were working with his transition team on a proposal that would summarily strip state and local workers of their hard-won right to bargain with their governmental bosses. Blinded by their flaming arrogance, the co-conspirators blithely assumed that Wisconsinites would just sit still for this, like sheep being fleeced. Bad miscalculation.

Collective bargaining literally is democracy at work — not something that working families take lightly. Nor should employers, for the process works, allowing 98 percent of union-employer disputes to be resolved with no strife. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/02-4

[MedicalAdmin]

1. Worse than that in a way...

... is the small buried provision in the Walker budget that would allow His Nibs to sell off the state assets/utilities using a no bid/no review process. Anyone wanna guess who'd be buying up the states resourses at fire sale prices?

I'm going with Kochroaches for 400 Alex.

[99th_Monkey]

2. And it's certainly no accident that the Koch Bros are in the energy/utility business

among others ... but damn .. how much more obvious could they be.