Via HuffPo. Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero reacts to the right-wing Republican sneak attack on Michigan workers.
“The Republicans put this through in lightning speed, in lame duck. It’s outrageous and despicable what they’ve done, in my opinion. They did no public hearing. They did the best they could to shut out any public input at all into the process.
…A democracy is not a forever thing. You have to get up every day. Every day liberty and freedom must be won anew.
We’re back to the politics of fifty years ago…”
RTW, the right to work more for less money, is supported by only 6 percent of the people of Michigan.
UPDATE: How the Bitter Losers of 2012 Rammed Through a Union-Destroying Bill in Michigan
It’s no mystery where Michigan’s RTW legislation came from. The aggressively pro-corporate American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, is a policy clearinghouse… for bills that can be introduced at a moment’s notice in state legislative chambers.
#1 by reader on December 12, 2012 - 4:33 pm
Michigan unemployment rate = 9.1%
Utah unemployment rate = 5.2%
Yeah, it’s clear how much those violent thugs are doing to help the unemployed in Michigan.
#2 by cav on December 12, 2012 - 5:46 pm
John Hodgman’s Apocalypse Survival 101- you’re going to need mayonnaise.
#3 by Larry Bergan on December 12, 2012 - 7:57 pm
reader/brewski:
Yea for Americas China; Utah!
We’ve had the right to work for less here for decades, but it’s only been recently that we found out who was responsible for passing that Orwellian legislation: ALEC.
You guys just keep on truckin’. Keep it up until all Americans realize your kind should be retroactively taxed at 90%. It’s happened before.
#4 by Larry Bergan on December 12, 2012 - 8:11 pm
And besides. Where are all these wonderful jobs in Utah going to come from? Secret surveillance?
Utah’s breeding a scab that the whole wide world – www, if you wish – will fight. We’d best turn that facility into a dance hall before we spend another penny on it.
There isn’t one person on earth that likes being spied on and Utah is in the forefront.
#5 by cav on December 13, 2012 - 8:42 am
Paid to Whine About the Deficit
The well-being of our children and grandchildren will be determined by the extent to which people like Erskine Bowles, Alan Simpson and their rich friends will be able to continue to extract all the gains from growth. If they can make the next three decades like the last three decades then our children and grandchildren will be screwed even if they stopped paying Social Security and Medicare taxes altogether. (Of course then they would be doubly screwed since they also wouldn’t have Social Security and Medicare benefits when they retire.)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/13/paid-to-whine-about-the-deficit/
#6 by Richard Warnick on December 13, 2012 - 9:01 am
Is brewski really a member of the idle rich? Or does he work for a living?
#7 by cav on December 13, 2012 - 10:02 am
I wish to commend brewski for his liberalism.
#8 by schlep bergan on December 13, 2012 - 1:30 pm
Me too, Where’s my mop?
#9 by schlep bergan on December 13, 2012 - 8:16 pm
hahaah, cliff’s mess is all mopped up, obama’s mess not so much, haha, it surely won’t make a difference
#10 by cav on December 13, 2012 - 8:51 pm
Certainly not, as there’s no known cure for stupid.
#11 by Larry Bergan on December 13, 2012 - 8:58 pm
schlep:
Nevermind.
cav:
Love the video.
#12 by Larry Bergan on December 13, 2012 - 9:08 pm
Richard says:
He spends his time pulling his boot straps up – NOT himself; just his boot straps – while eating potato chips.