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That leadership meeting I attended was truly wonderful. It should be something that ALL Americans attend, because they'd be outraged at what these people, who promise tax cuts, have given them. (though I know of the generalizations (thanks especially to DU, thank you admins!), some of the specifics they mentioned were new to me... though, another thanks to DU, there were specifics I'd known about... I've got stuff that Minnesotans in particular should be concerned about, and I will post that stuff soon...)
And we've got to get EVERYBODY involved (I speak of my workplace but this can apply on a nationwide level too). Many in my department have been disheartened by the union because of a scandal from 2 years ago that the Union couldn't protect the people from... More impotantly, they're all the type who expect to get everything on a silver platter, even if they're not full paying members. While that may be true and even understandable to a point, the people in my department (who are terrified of mass outsourcing right now) must now come together with the union (who has proven itself in the past to stop outsourcing) or else the divide-and-conquer tactics of the bully boss will succeed and we'll all be starvin' in the streets.
Some of it was spin, even I - an admittedly proud commie pinko - saw the spin. But most of it was spin free and downright eye-opening as to the scale of it all.
I'll eventually post something in GD with some shocking information about the economics of the last 20 years... I even shouted "Reagan!" in a x( tone when they started talking about the origins of today's economic situation (outsourcing, sweatshops, healthcare costs, I could go on and on but all the charts clearly point to 1980 as being the birth of the mess this country is in. That's Reagan, folks... the so-called "freedom president", who is more "freedom for the corporations and apostate of the people".)
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