The problem in Wisconsin

Beetlejuice — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:12:45 +0000

In reply to Do We Still Need Unions? No

The problem in Wisconsin isn't about Unions. The governor misappropriated state funds as political payoffs and created the shortage...he orchestrated the entire event for the purpose of setting in motion for other GOPer state governors and legislatures to castrate unions before 2012. Seems the GOPer's corralled only 12 of the 22 states they had their eyes on this time around because Unions countered their under-the-table benefactors. So by disenfranchising unions now, by 2012 getting more states into the Red column will be a cake walk.

Saul "Rub Raw the Sores of

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:09:05 +0000

In reply to Do We Still Need Unions? No

Saul "Rub Raw the Sores of Discontent" Alinsky would be proud of McKinnon's divide-and-conquer attempt to pit private sector (we have private sector unions still in this country? The Bush Administration, which McKinnon worked for, was working hard to rebalance the labor policies in our country to move firing private sector organizers from a pesky but minor cost of doing business to something employers might think twice about? I guess I must have missed that part of the Bush, McCain and GOP records of late.) and public sector unions against one another.

Also in evidence is his adorable attempt to grab onto the label "centrist" to define his own views, a tactic I'd written about awhile back http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/essential-vacuity-and-sometimes-tactical-value-label-centrism-7483 and one probably well-suited for his purposes in trying to win over Newsweek readers. I wonder how many readers of his piece will buy that.

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The problem in Wisconsin

Saul "Rub Raw the Sores of