The US: Waking up to class politics

[Lastactiongyro]

A popular item is going around in emails and Facebook pages among the people who are in solidarity with the workers protesting against anti-labour legislation in Wisconsin: A CEO, a union worker and a Tea Partier (a member of the emerging right-wing political movement) are at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO takes 11 and says to the Tea Partier: "Keep an eye on that union guy, he wants your cookie."

Republican governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker's proposal not only to have state workers contribute more of their pay to their health and retirement funds - which are above the standards in the private sector - but to take away their basic right to collectively bargain would lead to the eventual destruction of these labour organisations.

Other governors may attempt to do the same, and it appears that similar legislation in nearby Ohio will succeed.

A public-relations campaign bankrolled by business groups and billionaires like the arch-conservative Koch brothers is aimed nationwide at not only pinning the blame for state budget deficits on its hard-working employees and their union leaders, but to tap into the envy many private sector workers and the unemployed have toward civil servants who have decent benefits.
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Personally The Japan Disaster and Wisconsin War is a Watershed moment for the US News Consumer. People are waking up to the fact that Fox and the Rest of the Corporate media have a stranglehold on News. People will move to other outlets more and more.

Source:

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/20113993351529356.html#

[Lastactiongyro]

1. The fact that Al Jazeera is giving in depth coverage and opinion bespeakes volumes

[liberal N proud]

2. It tells the story more factually than any US agency

Isn't that sad!

[rbixby]

3. I think its more like this:

A CEO, a union worker and a Tea Partier (a member of the emerging right-wing political movement) are at a table with 12 billion cookies. The CEO takes 11,999,999,999 and says to the Tea Partier: "Keep an eye on that union guy, he wants your cookie."

[inchhigh]

4. 11 to 1???

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The CEO takes all 12 and says to the Tea Partier: "Keep an eye on that union guy, he wants your crumbs."