I'll say it again, coz you may have missed it in the fog of media wars and spin-mastering:
REPUB[L]ICANS "in the Wisconsin state senate have approved a plan to strip public-sector unions of most of their collective bargaining rights." - BBC.
"But Democratic senate minority leader Mark Miller said the Republicans had shown disrespect for the people of Wisconsin and their rights.
"Tonight, 18 senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people," he is quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying.
"Tomorrow we will join the people of Wisconsin in taking back their government."
State unions had said they would agree to Mr Walker's proposed changes to their benefits - which would amount to an 8% pay cut - as long as they retained collective bargaining rights."
"Starve the beast" Reaganomics.
"The richest 1% of the American population, who were paying an income tax rate of 70% had that rate chopped down to 50% and then to 28% under the Reagan administration."
"Between 1978 and 1990 the government lost $840 billion in tax revenue [DORIN'S NOTE: that's "starve the beast"] whilst 1% of Americans accumulated $1 trillion."
"When Reagan first entered the White House the national debt was at around $700 billion, by the time he left the debt had exceeded $3 trillion." - read from Living in Philistia.
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My entry for today would have been a [Republican] politician's "heart for the American people".
I haven't found one in the Wisconsin Senate.
I'm still looking...
If this symbolizes "the heart of the American people", then it looks already chewed up by the greedy profiteers at the top:
It's nice to nurture a hobby, and find beauty even where it isn't, except thru the lens of our mind.
It's even more important to be acutely aware of what's going on in the world around us.
On-the-scenes, and especially behind-the-scenes.
Have a heart for the people, you greedy millionaires! :)
It's even more important to be acutely aware of what's going on in the world around us.
On-the-scenes, and especially behind-the-scenes.
Have a heart for the people, you greedy millionaires! :)
I am not against rich people, in principle.
Who wants to be a millionaire? Everybody, including me and including you, I guess. :)
The point is that while you are getting rich, you shouldn't take an assholistic approach towards your fellow countrymen.
Don't drive your fellows out of their jobs...
out of business...
out of their homes...
out of their hopes...
out of their mind!
Coz if you do, then all hell might break loose, eventually.
And you might lose big, or...everything! [oh, your God!]
"Beware the fury of a patient man."
"Be afraid of a man who has nothing left to lose."
Get rich, and help others get prosperous, too, at least at a reasonable level.
Live, and let live.
What! You prefer to "not let live"?
The Khmer Rouge regime has exterminated 1/4 of the population of Cambodia/Kampuchea.
Are records meant to be broken?
"A politician does not see the light until he feels the heat."
Politicians from around the world:
do you entertain the idea of finding out, first-hand, the euphemistic weight of
"a ton of bricks"?
4 comments:
I do love this chewed-up and spat-out 'heart of the American people' ... maybe that's why I love hearts found in nature ... so much easier to find than those shown by so many people!!!
Thank you for your (always!) thought provoking post ... and for sharing such a beautiful tulip heart!
If you're really looking for a 'politician' heart ... you may be looking for a little longer .....
I like what you've added to your post. I always said I don't want to be rich ... just 'independently wealthy' (LOL)
I don't mind that people get rich, as long as they don't get there by tearing down and walking on the bodies of those who got in their way, and that they remember who pays for them to be rich. The rest of us poor people!
It could be a really long search to find a Republican heart. This attack on the unions is an attack on the working class of this nation.
I like the tulip heart. Looks like Walker needs to be recalled along with the governor of my state.
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