It was supposed to be all about "jobs." That promise made to voters before the November 2010 election has been largely ignored by the new Republican Congress, state legislators and governors.
Instead the agenda pursued by the Republican Party has concentrated on the so-called culture wars. There have been bills introduced in Congress to reduce the availability of abortion, despite Roe v Wade being the law of the land. The new budget introduced by the Republicans actually kills jobs by cutting discretionary spending. Instead of closing loopholes for oil depletion allowances and Big Agriculture, they restricted money to Planned Parenthood. Then, they go off on vacation.
In the state capitols, the record of the newly elected Republican again has not served the American Worker. In Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker, thinking he was speaking to David Koch, one of the infamous Koch brothers of oil, gas and chemical fame, told him that he was thinking about seeding the crowd protesting his attempt at Union Busting with outside agitators to make the so-far peaceful protesters look like hooligans. Governor Walker intimated that with a little extra support (read dollars), governors of other states would follow the same agenda.
That, my friends, is trading worker's collective bargaining rights for campaign cash, a straight forward transaction. And who is he selling down the river, YOU. By denying collective bargaining rights to workers in these hard times, he denies those rights for future workers in good times.
If your congressperson, senator, state representative or governor is acting in a similar unscrupulous manner and following an agenda that does nothing to produce the promised jobs, maybe it is time for a recall petition.
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