The American worker has awoken!
The recent events in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and here in Washington have demonstrated that American workers are fed up with the insatiable greed on the right.
The right-wing economic royalists used our retirement funds to gamble and lost. President Bush and his Wall Street cronies decided that the American worker must pay to save the banks, but not the workers’ losses. The resulting Great Recession has caused a shortfall in every state budget across the country. Who do the economic royalists blame for this problem? State workers! They say overpaid workers are the problem, while ignoring the fact that the real issue is the failed economy of their making.
Over the past 30 years the economic royalists have manipulated the tax codes to redistribute wealth from the pockets of the middle class into the greedy hands of the very wealthy. So much so that 400 families have amassed more wealth than 50 percent of Americans combined and still the right is not satisfied.
This time the economic royalists on the right went too far. Workers have stood by and watched our pay decrease, our pensions go unfunded and our schools and roads deteriorate, all while watching the Waltons and their poolside buddies get richer. Tens of thousands of Wisconsin workers stormed the Capitol and said, “We are not going to take this anymore.” Their bravery has sparked a labor revolution in this country that is long overdue.
The power mongers on the right are throwing a lot of money into commercials designed to misinform people about what is going on in this country, but for once the truth is getting through.
I am proud to say, “If we are united we can’t lose. Power to the American worker!”
Stephen L. McGourty
Arlington
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