What's Going On!

Of all the things I thought 2011 would be, it was not year of the protest. The wave of popular uprising that is spreading through the Middle East has mobilized citizens in Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Turkey and Wisconsin and there have been rumblings in Ohio. I guess the average person here and everywhere has taken just about as much ass-raping as they can take and are finally ready to fight back.  It is heartening to see our average citizen’s finally acting like engaged participants in our democracy. They may not be getting shot at or tear gassed like their counterparts in Bahrain and Egypt but they are doing it. There have been some massively large protests in the last 10 years. Protests in Washington and New York involving 10’s of thousands of people, but this one in Wisconsin does not seem to be one the media can ignore and it is growing by the day.  And boy, did the Democrats grow a pair by doing the only thing that they can do to fight this Draconian power-grab; they have up and excited stage left. If what is happening in Wisconsin is successful for the Republican whores and their corporate pimps, expect to see this type of thing spread throughout the country. Hopefully it can be stopped here, that there is finally a line that they can’t cross. The unions are being demonized because despite what the right wingers would have you believe, they do stand up for the average person and they don’t like that. Why is it okay for a corporation to band together to cut pay, fire employees, ship jobs overseas, loot pensions and whatever else but it becomes bad when the people band together to fight it? It is a blame the victim mentality. We have so much to thank the unions for, the 40 hour work week, an end to child labor, a living wage, paid sick time and decent benefits. These are all because of them. They are not the enemy. They are teachers, police officers, fire fighters and blue collar guys who are fighting for the rights that many died for not too long ago. We can’t continue to take from the poor, the elderly and the helpless to give to those who don’t need any more. When is their greed ever going to be satisfied?  It is time to say, enough is enough! 

Please read more about this:

http://dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=380 

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/479146/wi_governor%27s_fake_budget_crisis:_gave_tax_breaks_to_wal-mart_to_cloak_his_real_agenda_--_union_busting/#paragraph5