This is a GREAT post! The strategy (for corporations) right now is to pit worker against worker! We need to join together to better all of our lives! Stop corporate greed and the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the upper 2% of society! We need to fight the the corporations and stop corporate greed… and we can do that united together!

If you don’t realize / know that unions created the middle class, then you don’t know anything about the history of the labor movement in this country!

Wow. You so do NOT know what is going on at the Capitol! None of the citizens who are protesting are getting paid to be there. And the Senators exercised a right they have to go outside of a jurisdiction to stop progress on the forward momentum of a bill, just as congress can filibuster. Even LINCOLN left the state to stop a vote he was opposed to.

Take your family to a protest, they may learn something more useful there than anything else you may be doing with them today.

Contact any SEIU local. We are rally at US banks across the nation on March 18th. We are making calls to members in Wisconsin and Ohio to show our support. We are knocking on doors and gathering support from union and non union members alike. nnPay no attention to the ignorant who do nothing but sit on their wallets and count their change.

If you knew what you were talking about it would be sad but since you do not let me educate you. I am doing skilled nursing that required special training above my nursing degree. When was the last time you cared for a person on a ventilator who has had a stroke and several heart attacks and changed a trach? Not to mention diabetes and mersa. nnI would have to send him back to the nursing home if our contract is ratified as suggested by our governor. It would cut my job and 2999 other homecare workers jobs.

That was originally posted under Ballerina, in regard to “which side are you on?” Not sure how it got here… but, in any case, I am on the side of the taxpayer… which would put government employee unions in opposition to me.

How is that relevant to my comment?

I am on the side of the taxpayer.

Poor folks have plenty of chance if they get serious about their education and diligently apply it.

Mike, you misread the word “tear.” They meant to say, “tear up your old tax bill. Here is a newer larger one!”nnIf that doesn’t tear you up, nothing will.

Comparing Walker to Hitler is all about peace, love and brotherhood.

Mad, You are working as a home health care worker in a job that requires extremely little skill. What you are doing at home is NOT skilled nursing. If you have a degree, particularly in something that would provide you with a skill that is sought after in the labor market, you could hire a home health care worker for minimum wage and then personally extract wages from the labor market at a far higher rate. The notion that you would have to send your friend back to a nursing home because home health workers receive minimal wages is nonsense. If you were an RN or an LPN, you could easily work and hire 2.5 home health care workers to take care of your friend. I would have said 3.5 except that taxes would take so much of your paycheck to pay for bloated government that has resulted from oversized government wages, benefits and runaway entitlements.

“Unions created the middle class”nnThat’s ridiculous. Free markets are what created the middle class. It wasn’t government and it certainly wasn’t unions. Your government schools won’t tell you that though.