Billionaires take a stand for the working man

[Hannah Bell]

As a vice president of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and a Wall Street Journal columnist, William McGurn naturally has his finger on the pulse of the American working class:

The notion that Wall Street and Main Street are fundamentally at odds with one another remains a popular orthodoxy. So much so that we may be missing the first stirrings of a true American class war: between workers in government unions and their union counterparts in the private sector.

According to McGurn, a true American worker doesn't mind having their 401(k) cut by a CEO looking to increase his year-end bonus. But he's fighting mad at his daughter's teacher because she has a union that's been able to keep her pension intact...

IN NEW York, these plain folk have formed the modestly named "Committee to Save New York" (presumably they couldn't get the rights to "The Super Friends").

The Committee calls itself a "voice for the general public." Go to their Web site to see what they mean. All around the edges are pictures of us, the general public, in our hard hats and our various skin colors. And right in the middle, you can see our voice! It's a list of names and titles reflecting New York in all its diversity: some of them CEOs, some presidents and some "presidents and CEOs."

The plan to save New York is similar to the ones being proposed across the country: Cut public-sector jobs to pay for lower taxes on business, which will use that money to create new jobs--maybe even as many as they just got rid of!

http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/24/billionaires-for-the-working-man

[StarsInHerHair]

1. to cut public sector jobs now will further depress our economy, it is madness

especially when private sector only cares about making money. Public sector jobs aim to provide services which is a hell of alot better than money-grubbing.

[Hannah Bell]

2. it's complete madness & it's going to end very badly.

[xchrom]

3. where does the dividing americans each against the other

ultimately end?

i honestly don't know -- it seems to be the gift that keeps on giving for the wealthy and their surrogates.

[Hannah Bell]

4. i'm beginning to think that the ultimate aim is to dissolve the country.

that the world is being divided up again as it was in ww2.

[formercia]

5. That is the point

The boys have sworn an oath to do just that.

[barbiegeek]

7. Divide & Conquer and Steal all the $$ before they know what hit them

[hootinholler]

10. Beginning?

I thought better of you than that Hannah.

Funny you should choose dissolve when I seem to recall the phrase 'Drown it in a bathtub' from somewhere.

-Hoot

[socialist_n_TN]

11. It doesn't end. This is the method that the elites..................

have used for CENTURIES to keep their power. They divide the have nots and get them fighting amongst themselves, so that the workers don't realize that they're being robbed blind by those same elites. Every time the workers start to overcome one set of artificially induced divisions (black/white, gay/straight, religious/atheist) they'll come up with another. It's because it's not WHAT is used to divide, only that SOMETHING is used to divide. I acually don't think they HAVE an end result in mind. Only the process of division.

[Starry Messenger]

6. recommend.

[blindpig]

8. k&r

[Reader Rabbit]

9. This thread is incomplete with out this Non Sequitur toon.

http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=f53be650b16a3368aff5dba8a9368133