Monday, December 1, 2014

Americans for Prosperity spinoff wants Wisconsin for Mediocrity

Not satisfied with a Governor who sees no need for a minimum wage and won't back off a raise off $7.25/hour, a long-time staffer for the Koch brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity is forming a 'group' to begin implementing Walker's divide-and-conquer Wisconsin dream - - a Right-to-Poverty Work state - - come true.

The effort is being led by a nine-year veteran of AFP operations in Wisconsin; Scott Walker has been cozy with anti-union big money since the early days of his governorship.

You want to drive tens of thousands of middle-class union families - - their skill sets, their institutional memories, their community cohesion - - out of the state?

Then reward the far-right's self-interested and insatiable greed with a few extra percentage points of profit squeezed out of wages and benefits essentially already frozen or cut - - and the out-migration will begin in earnest beyond the college grad brain drain already under way.

Wisconsin working families will take the economy with them, delivering the dagger to the Badger State and creating another grubby low-wage, red/right-wing state whose biggest export is its people and its future.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

With the demise of private sector unions [only 7% of jobs nationally are now union] and the neutering of public sector unions, government is now the only check against runaway capitalistic greed. In the past organized labor served as a guard against corporate abuse of workers and insured that worker received a share of the profits pie. Now worker's have no collective voice and consequently no power in the market place nor the economy. The Republicans want to magnify this by returning us to the "robber baron" era which later gave rise to the union movement because of greed and the consolidation of national wealth in the hands of a few. Wisconsin is leading the way in this return to a previous era with Walker in control of all aspects of government, even judicial, and the worker and the common man are being made the victim. RIGHT TO WORK LEGISLATION WILL TOTALLY DESTROY THE COLLECTIVE VOICE OF THE WORKER AND RENDER THE LABOR FORCE IN WISCONSIN HELPLESS IN THE FACE OF STAGNANT WAGES AND LOST MANUFACTURING JOBS! The last one to leave the state will be charged with turning out the light.

Anonymous said...

I warned everyone I know that this would happen if Walker was reelected. Not surprised at all.

Anonymous said...

anon 4:07

And no one did more to elect walker than milwaukee journal sentinel -- quite a classy act when the "watchdog" sort-of-guy publishes slander from a disgruntled former trek worker practically word-for-word, lifting the text right out of a koch brother's funded fake news organization!

Makes ya proud to be purple, doesn't it?

Bill Kurtz said...

The script was already written in Indiana and Michigan. The GOP governor says he doesn't want right to work, it's not on his agenda. But when the GOP legislature rams it through, he signs it. And as we all know, Walker sticks to his script.

Anonymous said...

This is what the people of this state voted for. If they didn't know this was going to happen, they weren't paying attention.

Anonymous said...

Walker said he won't sign right to work legislation and I believe him. This isn't his people pushing for legislation.

James Rowen said...

Walker said he did not want that bill on his desk but did not say he wouldn't sign it.

Jake formerly of the LP said...

And THATS the type of weak-mindedness that got Walker just enough votes to stay in power.

Don't you get tired of being a SUCKER?

Anonymous said...

Walker will sign it when passed by the legislature because he promised Diane Hendricks he would. Remember this divide and conquer video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7v8f8jBrW8

Anonymous said...

So, when people lose all they now get from Unions fighting for worker's rights many years ago, will they then understand what is happening. Will it open their eyes once the unions are gone and there is no one to fight for their rights anymore?

Anonymous said...

Have the Operating Engineers released a statement on this?