I continually ask myself about Republicans, are they really so cruel and heartless about the working poor. I've acquaintances that are Republican, they are shallow and uniformed (ignorant is more like it, since they prefer to be uniformed), they put business above relationships and scorn anyone that doesn't, (I believe they idealize themselves as some sort of martyr sacrificing family and friends "just to make it". I do not know if they are cruel, I do not want to know them that well.
I remember in college when I worked for a man that got the National Right to Work Committee Newsletter, the first time I read it I was shocked. It was a "Rovian" organization started back in the 50's to break the Unions. It told employers how to "save money" by hiring part-time employees, no benefits or unions. (
http://www.nrtwc.org/home.php3 http://www.nrtwc.org/whoweare.php3 http://www.nrtwc.org/officers_board.php3) My boss asked me what I thought of it, I told him it would be their downfall, because without consumers they wouldn't exist, and it there weren 't full-time jobs with benefits to help maintain the middle-class, there would be no consumers. He agreed...
This is what happened in most of our southern states, most jobs pay very low wages, are hard to get full-time hours, no benefits. Talk about repression and a welfare society.
What people refuse to realize is that the number of good jobs, with a livable wage, benefits and hours, are greatly out-numbered by the barely subsistent jobs...if there are not enough living wage jobs, there is nowhere to go, no chances to better the condition and no hope.
Do the republicans think far enough into the future consequences of their promotions? Do they really know what they wrought? Are they really just uncaring, cold hearted, "I've got mine, too bad for you" people?
I've added here some of the board to the NRWC, because it gives insight at how they have taken hold of the politics and the country:
MORTON C. BLACKWELL is an educator and President of the Arlington, Va. based Leadership Institute. Known as the dean of youth politics, Mr. Blackwell has trained many of the people who have been responsible for Right to Work victories over the past 20 years. Mr. Blackwell's training in how to win political battles is so effective that activists are sent into the field only after successfully completing his program. Throughout the country his graduates have helped elect local and national candidates that fight for voluntary unionism. Some run for elective office themselves. Mr. Blackwell's alumni include numerous state representatives, two U.S. Congressmen, a U.S. Senator and a Governor. Mr. Blackwell is a member of the National Right to Work Committee's Executive Committee.
REED E. LARSON is Treasurer of the National Right to Work Committee, having served as President for 35 years, and an acknowledged national leader in the Right to Work cause. Born near Kensington, Kansas, he attended Kansas Wesleyan University, Ohio State University, and Kansas State University, where he received an electrical engineering degree after military service in World War II. He thereafter served as president of the Kansas Jaycees. With Kansans for the Right to Work, he directed the successful campaign for the state’s Right to Work amendment, following which in 1958 he joined the staff of the fledgling National Right to Work Committee. In 1968, he was the impetus behind the establishment of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation for which he served as president until 2004. Mr. Larson has been the recipient of numerous business, religious, and civic awards. Mr. Larson is a non-voting member of the National Right to Work Committee's Executive Committee.
MARK A. MIX is President of the National Right to Work Committee and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc. A native of Alfred, New York, he graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he majored in Finance. After graduation, Mr. Mix worked for several state Right to Work groups as an independent lobbyist and also served as a field man for the successful congressional campaign of U.S. Congressman Herbert Bateman (R-VA). In 1990, he began working for the National Right to Work Committee, rising to the position of Executive Vice President before being named President of both the Committee and Foundation in 2003. He is married and has five children. Mr. Mix is the principal salaried executive officer of the National Right to Work Committee
JON SWEEN is an educator who resides in Kirkland, Washington. Mr. Sween is a former National Education Association (NEA) forced-dues payer in the Seattle, Washington area. As an active, vocal and articulate opponent of compulsory unionism and NEA union policies in general, he has, for the past four years, vigorously promoted and defended voluntary unionism through a number of local organizations, frequent letters to editors, television appearances and other public forums.
These are the people that broke our backs, you know that little phrase you find on job applications now, where it says "we are a right to work company, and fire and hire at will", meaning they have the right to fire you without notice? These are the people who promoted the demonization of Unions, as the reason they were moving to Mexico, or "going broke" etc. that made the younger generation really believe that pap. Thanks to these people most of available employment now is in the form of part-time, no benefit, non-living wage jobs...Welcome to THEIR world.....IS IT BETTER?
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