Dirty Republican Secrets [View All]

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Psst, Psst, Hey You, Over Here!

Do you want to know a secret? Listen Up.

The Republicans have this secret agenda that they don't want anyone to know about. Quite simply they want to undermine the middle class in America by reducing wages to rock bottom.

You say you want proof. Here it is. The Republican Owners and arch conservative leaders of the Wal-Mart corporation just got caught importing illegal workers into the United States and paying them sub-human wages.

No you say. It can't be. Here it is read the story yourself from the NY Times. (see story below)

See, I told you. So now consider what it means when I say that Republicans are "cheap labor conservatives."

http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/beattherightinthree.htm
(read the middle column article)(see excerpt below)

You will never get ahead with these folks, and now you know what we are up against in America today.

Thanks, I didn't know this.

You're welcome, spread the word!
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/05/national/05WALM.html

November 5, 2003
Illegally in U.S., and Never a Day Off at Wal-Mart
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
NY Times

They came from Russia, Poland and Lithuania, and their tales of washing and waxing Wal-Mart's floors for seven nights a week sound much like Pavel's.

Last February, Pavel responded to an intriguing Web site that boasted of cleaning jobs in the United States paying four times what he was earning as a restaurant manager in the Czech Republic. He flew from Prague to New York on a tourist visa and took a bus to Lynchburg, Va., where a subcontractor delivered him to a giant Wal-Mart.

Pavel immediately began on the midnight shift and said he soon learned that he would never receive a night off. He said he worked every night for the next eight months. In this way, Pavel, who refused to give his last name, became one pawn among hundreds employed by subcontractors that clean Wal-Mart stores across the nation, paying many workers off the books.

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http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/beattherightinthree.htm

When you cut right through it, right-wing ideology is just "dime-store economics" – intended to dress their ideology up and make it look respectable. You don't really need to know much about economics to understand it. They certainly don't. It all gets down to two simple words.

"Cheap labor". That's their whole philosophy in a nutshell – which gives you a short and pithy "catch phrase" that describes them perfectly. You've heard of "big-government liberals". Well they're "cheap-labor conservatives".

"Cheap-labor conservative" is a moniker they will never shake, and never live down. Because it's exactly what they are. You see, cheap-labor conservatives are defenders of corporate America – whose fortunes depend on labor. The larger the labor supply, the cheaper it is. The more desperately you need a job, the cheaper you'll work, and the more power those "corporate lords" have over you. If you are a wealthy elite – or a "wannabe" like most dittoheads – your wealth, power and privilege is enhanced by a labor pool, forced to work cheap.

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