WI We're locked into the wrong debate!

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A must read article: http://www.ppulse.com/Articles-c-2011-02-25-97101.114136-Locked-Into-The-Wrong-Debate.html

For two weeks, we’ve gleefully sunk into a relatively petty debate about pension contribution percentages, health care benefits, and wages for middle class Americans. Often, this argument has devolved into simple jealousies, of one middle class worker upset that another has, thanks to a strong union, better wages and benefits than they have. It often sounds unsettlingly childish: “I don’t have that so you shouldn’t.”

There are certainly details in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill worthy of discussion and argument, but his bill is not being proposed in a vacuum. That is where we fall into the trap that takes us to the wrong debate.

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[Viking12]

1. Read it on FB yesterday. On target and well worth the read.

[FeelingBlue]

2. Agreed. n/t

[TxVietVet]

3. Having lived in Wisconsin for 20+ years

most of the conservanazis I've met are greedy racist assholes. Most of them I know are union members. The only thing union about them is their pay scale. They listen to WISN and WTMJ constantly all day to get the conservanazi bu$hit from Charlie "psycho" Sikes, the adulter, some goofy bitch named McKenna (I believe) and a Hispanic hating idiot named Mark Belling. It goes on and on. The dumbasses that listen to that crap don't realize that it's just conservanazi propaganda. Now, some of the people I know that are not like those greedy conservanazis. They are good people.

You see, one thing I learned after Vietnam (where I learned how we are all in this together) when I got home, those that stayed behind, beat the system, got a greed injection. AS time went on and I worked up in Wisconsin, I've never seen such greedy, hateful people in my life, until I moved back to Texas. Even the poor people don't want anyone to have anything. They are getting screwed the worse. Texas is NOT a generous state for poor people. The little community I moved into has plenty of poor folks.


Once you convince middle class conservanazi loving fools that the republiklans are going to screw them too, then thing will change. Other than that, they are a hate-based greedy group that will sooner or later resort to violence if they think it's going to fail for them.