This wonderful NY Times piece from last Sunday lays out the clear difference between economic approaches in Wisconsin and Minnesota. One being a doctrinaire political ideology where Right Wing do-nothing austerity and the suffering it causes is peddled to the masses as job creation. And the other, a can-do activist state government, taxing some spending … Read more
Scott Walker, the union-busting governor of Wisconsin may not see trouble coming. But that may be because with one million signatures that came in yesterday for his recall he may be experiencing somewhat limited visibility.
So the Wisconsin GOP finally fixed the Democrats’ wagon. Without the Democrat state senate members they found a way to bust the public employees unions by passing a bill that took out financial concerns and became a raw grab for party and union-crushing political power. As if this kind of tactic will go down well … Read more
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, another Republican politician joining in the current Class War Festival is finding out what happens when people wake up. His proposal to end collective bargaining rights for public unions in his state and in the process continue the program of eviscerating unions in the US, was strikingly reacted to by unions … Read more
