“More than three-quarters of the Senate
Republican caucus signed onto legislation introduced Wednesday by Sens. Tom
Coburn (R-OK) and Rand Paul (R-KY) that could render it virtually impossible for Congress to enact any legislation intended to
improve working conditions or otherwise regulate the workplace. Had
their bill been in effect during the Twentieth Century, for example, there
would likely be no nationwide minimum wage, no national ban on workplace
discrimination, no national labor law and no overtime in most industries.”
Cassi Creek: The
stage is being set for another attempt to roll back the calendar to the 18th
century. This will, of course, include
more attempts to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, and all the other social
safety nets that can be eliminated by the Roberts Court.
There is no
doubt that we are now engaged in class war that can do irreparable harm to the
core concept and the socio-economic reality of these once United States. The electorate has fallen head first into the
mire and muck that constitutes the GOP/teavangelist propaganda. They are so unable to see past the
canonization of Reagan that the slide to the extreme right begun by Reagan’s
handlers and owners now seems to them to match the initial intention of the
founders. They overlook the Civil War’s
true nature and hear only what the fundamentalists and the ultra-wealthy wish
them to believe.
The GOP seems
to be less and less in contact with the reality of the former middle class and
the working poor. Yet, that portion of
the electorate must somehow come to recognize that they are being coached to
vote against their own best interests.
They seem to believe that doing away with all the social safety nets
will return the nation to the manufacturing giant it was at the end of
WWII. However, until corporations are
held accountable for taxes they currently invade, until corporations are not
allowed personhood, and until the fundamentalists of the American Taliban are
ejected from the power, they currently wield, this nation will remain in grave
danger of another Civil War.
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