Demonizing your neighbors. That is what has come down to. There are no easy dollars for them to squeeze from the working class, there are no more cheap and easy people to let go. All the easy targets are gone, and so it begins, they come for the people manning the ramparts, the ones holding the gates of the final bastion where it all began.
In Wisconsin, the birthplace of public unions.
I am not from there, nor do I live there.
But I stand with them every day and in every way I can to hold the line against this tide of injustice they are facing, because it is not just one state, it is all of us. Great American workers under attack, called worthless, overpaid, fat and lazy. The entrenched corporate lapdogs of the Koch Brothers would like you to believe those lies, and they are spewing them daily to frame their agenda and divide people, let me show you one of them.
Here in Nebraska we rallied in solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin and all the states of this country this last Saturday. 350 people showed up on short notice (3 days) to stand in the cold and support the rights of workers to be treated fairly everywhere in America.
Perhaps that does not sound like a big number due to the 100,000 person march in Wisconsin that same day, but you have to understand this was what we could gather in one town, in the cold, and we actually had the same size rally for Obama the week before the election in 2008, and that event was planned weeks in advance.
And that is when the framing began...
By Mark Fahleson, Chairman of the Nebraska Republican party.
You can Google some of the more interesting things about him if you care to.
Evidently we struck a nerve with our rally, and the GOP push back began, led by their chairman, who posts there as "MarkyMark".
Oh and by the way, this tool sits on the technology committee of the RNC.
You can the original stories here - STORY
And a follow up piece by another Party Hack here - STORY 2
Here are his comments posted on those stories - reposted to show what we REALLY are up against.
just what entity do you think takes over, controls and operates their free indoctrination public education? Quakers?
According to him, teachers are evil people that should be burned at the stake!
Straight out of the communist manifesto: take over education and create a false class war.
Class envy is unbecoming of an individual.
Actually the middle class did not start this class war, you did.....
Embrace voter control over government spending by ending collective bargaing with government unions.
Embrace restoring non-partisan civil service by ending subsidies for for union "fundraising" and giving workers the choice of paying union dues.
Voters should be telling the government how to spend their own money, not the other way around.
Of course if unions have no money to spend to represent the people, the corporations will have a clear field to do what they want.
On one side of the street: Marx, Hussein, Lenin, government dependence, 14 trillion national debt, 1.64 trillion of state debt, union intimidation, Dems fleeing states, families, elected responsibilities and thwarting legal legislative process.
On other side of street: Fiscal responsibility, voter control over government spending, restoration of non-partisan civil service, legal legislative process.
Actually on the union side of the street, the police, firefighters, teachers, national guard technicians, university professors, DMV and dept of roads employees, electricians, plumbers, and administrative workers. On on the the tea bagger side of the street, GOP party hacks and corporate shills.
Ah yes, right on que, straight out of the communist manifesto. Take over education and create a false class warfare within the populace.
Class envy is unbecoming of an individual.
All hail the supremacy of the Nanny State! Or else!!
The very real difference between you and us is we want a fair share of decency and prosperity for ourselves, being very mindful that our neighbor has a fair share also. But you and your party want everything you can take from anyone else regardless of who it is and how you get it. And you really do not care about the damage that policy does to this country.
There is more, and you can go to the stories I listed above and check for yourself
should you want to see more of his drivel. I do post there as "Helomech".
You can read my posts there as well.
All these wonderful posts from a guy who has never held a real job outside of being a party hack, and dresses his pre teen daughter up as Jon Benet Ramsey for Halloween and thinks it is cool...
The main thing is to realize this is a concerted effort nationwide to demonize and crush the last remaining part of the middle class of this country, they can and will use any amount of lies, propaganda and framing to stop your voices from being heard.
Don't let them do it.
Push back any way you can.
America needs you, Wisconsin needs you, we ALL need you.