Republicans Are Using The Great Recession As An Excuse to Assault Middle-class

[Bill USA]

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Republicans Are Using The Great Recession As An Excuse to Assault Middle-class, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/16-9">State Budget Battles are about More than Cutting Deficits

Earlier this year, people across the country were riveted to the politics of Wisconsin. Claiming to address the state's budget crisis, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker proposed eliminating the right of public workers to unionize. Wisconsin's citizens immediately took to the streets in massive protests — only to see the union-busting legislation pushed through by the state senate in a late-night surprise vote. Although Madison's capitol building is now cleared and most of the news teams have bolted, the issue of public unions is far from over in Wisconsin. Meanwhile, it has just begun for the rest of the country.

The dire budgetary situations many states find themselves in are real problems, and they require real solutions. But some state leaders are proposing "solutions" that are forcing social policy shifts and making political power plays that will do nothing to reduce deficits.

In Wisconsin, Walker proposed one such non-solution: revoking the collective bargaining rights of public employees. Citing an urgent need to compensate for Wisconsin's $140 million budget shortfall (which he helped create by handing enormous tax giveaways to corporations), Walker seized his opportunity to vilify and weaken his political opponents, ultimately to the benefit of the wealthy corporate interests that supported his campaign.

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[orpupilofnature57]

1. Since Shrub it's been one contrived ,invented or caused by them Fear.

Well being of every sort is being assaulted , poverty and fear is all They brought.

[ladywnch]

2. since when do rethugs need an excuse to screw the middle class? n/t

[Doctor_J]

3. They're not the only ones

sadly

[Katashi_itto]

4. This is news?

[demosincebirth]

5. They don't need an excuse. It's in their blood.