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Will the New Assaults on Public Employee Unions Undermine All Workers?

Years of demonizing public employee unions as part of a right-wing assault against the labor movement now seems about to pay off.

http://bit.ly/hbVlsf



The Shameful Attack on Public Employees

Public servants are convenient scapegoats. Republicans would rather deflect attention from corporate executive pay that continues to rise as corporate profits soar, even as corporations refuse to hire more workers.

http://robertreich.org/post/2615647030


From Information Clearing House

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Workers Vs Corporate Power: GOP's Plan Risks Us All
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/06

Why Are House Republicans Reading The Constitution?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/06-0

Attacking Immigrants, and the Constitution
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/06-6

House Reads the Constitution, Should Defend Its Values
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/06-2

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The myth of a middle class

Strike the Root
by Cristian Gherasim

01/05/11

The people who have a vested interest in propagating the 'class' myth are those who will profit by it in terms of money or power. Making people believe they are in a static class, a caste, from which there is no escape, allows politicians to more easily sell the idea of redistribution in its many forms (health care, progressive taxes, regulation, etc.). There is no such thing as the middle class because social classes don?t exist...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/myth-of-middle-class


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republicans
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Tea+Party
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=immigrant
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporate+power
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=middle+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=workers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=employee+unions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=public+employees
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Reich+Blog
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Scheer
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Marielena+Hincapié
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=People+For+the+American+Way
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cristian+Gherasim


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