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Related: About this forumSeder: Scott Walker Butchers Wisconsin Wage Earners
This week, Wisconsin joined 24 other states in passing a right-to-work law. As cheap labor has become somewhat of a mantra for conservatives, the saga in Wisconsin further shows how these right to work laws would better be described as right to work for less laws.
Ring of Fires Sam Seder and author Cliff Schecter discuss this.
Madmiddle
(459 posts)This is not ignorance, this is by design. Guess what, fuck you douchebag republican losers.
riversedge
(70,382 posts)marble falls
(57,405 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Humans are territorial and so are more or less selfish by nature...
As resource security is threatened there is an impulse to more vigorously defend resources...at least until collapse directly impacts a person, family or community...at that point understanding of the importance of sharing takes over
Yeoman self-sufficiency remains a cultural value in American society associated with a romanticized pioneering past mostly associated with people of white northwestern european descent
The apolcalypse survival culture in America, now supported by 'reality' tv and various online blogs is a great example of the emergence of the selfish defense of resource.
So is the fierce defense of social 'status quo' which sees immigrants (pick one...Irish, Italians, Hispanics) and racialized poor as threats to resource security.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)father founding
(619 posts)People shouldn't have to pay for subsidies to business either, like tax breaks for big box stores to build in a community.
mother earth
(6,002 posts)it is the last bastion of labor protection.
Their aim is to to kill the middle class, they're done with wounding it.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)drynberg
(1,648 posts)Can Vote. Of course a good campaign of telling the quick story of Scottie's lies are also important.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Perfect for a Koch representative.
libodem
(19,288 posts)And unfocused. His eyes are not set right. He's a meatpuppet in a Kabooki theater.