Who will speak for the little guy?

Thank You Huffington Posts' Sally Kohn for this.....
What's happening in Wisconsin isn't about budget deficits or government spending or even public employee benefits. It's class war, wherein the big business, conservative Right tries to pit working class Americans against one another so that the super-rich can continue to pilfer our private and public coffers for their own boundless gain. Here are the facts you need to know -- and spread:
1. 60% of Wisconsin's largest corporations pay ZERO taxes
According to the Institute for Wisconsin's Future, in 2007 60% of corporations in Wisconsin with over $100 million in annual revenues paid zero taxes. None. Zip. Zilch.

2. Raising corporate taxes in Wisconsin to the national average would generate $1 BILLION in revenue
By comparison, Gov. Walker's union busting bill will "save" a measly $350 million (that is, if you consider lowering the income and security of a core group of tax-paying workers "saving" money...).

3. Cutting taxes on corporations and the rich created state budget crises.
States do not have a spending problem. They have a revenue problem. The recession caused all tax receipts to be lower, but government revenue was artificially suppressed long-before by tax cuts for the big business and the rich pushed through at both the federal and state levels. But with Wall Street tycoons still raking in big bonuses while the rest of us stagger and suffer, anger against big business might reach a boiling point... unless private sector workers can be pitted against public sector workers in a "blame government" charade to diffuse anger from the rightful target.

4. Gov. Walker and the attack on unions are paid for by anti-government Koch brothers
David and Charles Koch, scions of the second largest private corporation in the United States, know how to get a good deal for their dollar. Do you really think the brothers who fund the anti-government, pro-big business Tea Party really give a damn about Wisconsin's deficit? They are using Wisconsin in their larger play to destroy all unions, further strip all workers of benefits and decent wages, and increase power and profit for a very few, very large corporations like their own. The Koch brothers are among Gov. Walker's top political contributors.


It's so plain to see, so easy to understand!! Why are the rightie, teabagger, conservative, democrat haters, so blind??
This morning I listened to my Gov. Chris Christie on Morning Joe talk about unions in NJ. He ALMOST had me believing his bull but I had a second cup of coffee and came to my senses. This effort to abolish unions and silence the middleclass worker is un-American.  Who will protect the factory worker, the teachers, the janitors, the police and firefighter who puts his life on the line every day? The big corporations who republican governors can thank for their elections surely don't want unions in this country backing democrats, so this is how they begin the process of killing the democratic party, kill off the organizations who put dems in office.
Now let me say this, I do believe union workers should contribute to their healthcare costs, they should contribute more to their pensions, but they should not have their voices silenced.

Did I ever tell you my husbands story? He worked for a small town company that grew to be a world wide manufacturer of flooring, Mannington. He was a welder/millwright and worked for this company just like his grandfather before him. He was there for 15 years. This company claimed to care about their workers but was not gonna let any union come in and poison the minds of their workers. One night myhusband was called to work at 2 am. He went in, performed his job and even stayed all night and his shift the next day. After not receiving the over time pay he deserved he started asking questions. When he was repeatedly told he would not get that pay he did not back down and was subsequently fired for insubordination. When he went to his friend the boss, the plant founders son, he begged for his job back but was given no mercy. You talk about humiliation, it's hard for me to even write about it... Anyway myhusbamd was accused of trying to form a union or something to that effect, and it wasn't true but when he told his story to the Labor Relations board they immediately took the case. He won I guess you could say, but it was a tiny settlement,  he should have taken the bastards to court! So, if the plant had a union representing the workers rights, he would still be there today and retiring in a few yrs. This is just one of the reasons we have unions, without them the MIDDLE CLASS HARD WORKER gets shit on by the big guy every fuckin time!

Thanks for listening...