I read somewhere, I can't remember where, that the left is defined as being concerned with the rights of people while the right is more concerned with the rights of property. I know that's a very simplified way of lookin' at the situation but it seems to fit. The rights of property mean little to me when compared to the rights of a person.
Not everybody sees it that way. There's a Governor in Wisconson, Scotty Walker, that isn't very interested in human rights. See, the government's been broke for a while, nuthin' new. Who isn't these days? His decision was for union workers to pay in more for their benifits. They'd pay about half of what most pay for healthcare after the change and lose 8% in take home pay. They didn't want it but after bein' threatened with losin' their jobs they decided to talk it out. Wisconsin needs money so they give up their perks. The state gets back a ton of money and the day is saved, right? Well not according to Scotty.
Kid wants to take away the people's rights to collective bargainin'. An important tool for any group that could ever want anything. Walker says the bargainin' could be used against the state to bargain for more money. I kinda figure the idea is to get all those workers their benefits back when the state has a lil money. The way it looks to the workers and quite a few of us in the stands watchin' all this go down is that Walker's just tryin' to bust up unions. It especially looks bad when they got the gov on a recorded phone call discussin' the pros and cons of usin' hired troublemakers to make the union workers look bad.
I understand we gotta save money but the guys that control where to cut are lookin' to cut in all the wrong places. Of course they can't cut from whatever's important to them. They're cuttin' down the union and groups that help women like WIC, Headstart, and Planned Parenthood Mothers and children need help. They are the the basis of the continuation of mankind. The rich bastards paint these mothers and young women as harlots and whores. They act like they never had a mother to begin with.
Fox news bashes the idea of a class warfare, say it's a tool of the left and that it's basically bullshit. What's bullshit is that this small percentage of top earners so clearly controls people in the government that make decisions. You got guys that keep fifty dusty cars they never use in a garage and starvin' people in the same city. Warlords that make billions sellin' or inventin' new ways to put wholes in each other. I hear that these bastards might even be sellin' to the people we're fightin'. You real drug pushers makin' money off of a product that gives you cancer while a substance that makes cancer a bit easier is illegal. You got tyrants that want to control who you can love. Yet homosexuals have somethin' wrong with their minds that needs to be corrected. After you make a certain dollar amount it seems that you stop carin' about the people your decisions make miserable. The closer you get to the bottom earners the more you feel every move the deciders make.
That's all this is. It's class warfare and the haves don't want the have-nots realizin' it. We outnumber them and we control their earnings. They don't want us organized, educated, healthy, or too well paid. They want us sedated with greasy, meat substitutes, and with just enough money to buy things we don't really need when we can barely afford them. They don't want us stickin' up for ourselves. Hard to be a bully when the bullied are willin' to fight back. In northern Africa people are risin' up against things like this. What's goin' on here isn't much by comparison. A few passionate people along with some hard work and protestin' might get the job done.
In Libya with Gaddafi, in Egypt with Mubarak, as well as in several other countries in that part of the world, all that could be done is bein' done. Mubarak locked up a guy for writin' a poem about how he sucked. Gaddafi, from what I understand started out tryin' to be the next Che and wound up some cartoonish supervillain that thinks AIDS is a peaceful virus. There was no way these guys should've stayed in power. Course when you look back you can see the U.S. had a hand in that. The country, just like many if not all others, is run by rich men that look out for themselves. It's how they got to be rich powerful men. Why wouldn't they do all they can to protect their investments? It makes sense but that doesn't make it right.
We all have the right to fight back. We should not suffer while a select few prosper. Stay educated and be aware of what decisions are bein' made. I watched a German film called "The Edukators", and in it is a line that says somethin' like: under thirty and right-no heart, over thirty and left-no brain. I'd rather have no brain than let my success be the misery of others. I am filled with love for my fellow man and I could never deny that. Course I'm still under thirty, may completely sell out after a few birthdays and a few million dollars. I'd doubt it though.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-28/politics/wisconsin.budget_1_wisconsin-governor-wisconsin-protesters-budget-gap?_s=PM:POLITICS
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/03/gop_ad_distorts_history_of_wi.html
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/tue-february-22-2011-anderson-cooper
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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