Jobless Organize to Remove Republican Royalists From Their Jobs

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Posted by Leo Gerard at 12:01 pm
August 25, 2010

Jobless Organize to Remove Republican Royalists From Their Jobs
Posted by Leo Gerard on @ 12:01 pm


Glenn Beck made it official on Fox News last week: He’s seeking the office of 21st Century Marie Antoinette.

The queen of France, beheaded during the revolution, attained infamy for insensitivity toward hungry peasants. Glenn Beck, the Fox talk show host, achieved celebrity for his callousness toward unemployed Americans.

Beck leads a pack of royalist Republicans who have spent the summer mocking, vilifying and denigrating the nation’s 14.5 million unemployed workers. It is the moneyed class smacking down the working class in an attempt to disempower and disenfranchise them. Dispirited workers are less likely to vote – which could give Beck and his gang of royalist Republicans control of Congress.

The unemployed, like France’s 18th Century peasants, are fighting back, however. The Union of the Unemployed and Working America are organizing the jobless to vote this fall and to demand help from lawmakers. They’re not out to behead Beck and the royalist Republicans, just dethrone them.

Two and a half years after wanton recklessness by Wall Street banksters crashed the economy, the official unemployment rate remains stuck at 9.5 percent. It rises to 17 percent when statisticians add part-time workers seeking full-time jobs and the jobless who’ve abandoned the search out of hopelessness. With the help of a taxpayer bailout, Wall Street has recovered, and those banksters are taking home multi-million dollar bonuses again. But on Main Street, there still are five unemployed workers for every job vacancy, so no matter how hard the jobless try, there are no openings for 80 percent of them.

Routinely, crowds line up before dawn when job openings are announced. In June, in Longmont, Colo., hundreds queued up to vie for 100 low-paid clerk and stock jobs at a new SmartCo Foods. Hundreds of Louisville residents gathered in the dark on Aug. 9 at the Kentucky Exposition Center to apply for 450 state fair jobs paying $7.25 an hour and lasting a total of 20 days. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/25/jobless-organize-to-remove-republican-royalists-from-their-jobs/

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1. The privileged ones need to remember two dates

1789 and 1917.

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3. fear of the Bolsheviks drove a lot of Social Democratic reform in the 20th century

Nothing like a real far-left enemy to gain some concessions to moderate reform

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4. The privileged class never gets the point until they are running for their lives.

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5. ,,, and unfortunately, that is not often enough. nt

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