Trumka Hits Back at Right-Wing ‘Canvas of Cruelty’

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http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7331/trumka_hits_back_at_right-wing_canvas_of_cruelty/


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Justice 2222 May 2011
11:15 am

Where is the outrage in America, when large corporations can demand concessions from hourly workers while simultaneously increasing already exorbitant bonuses for top executives?

Where is the outrage when the privileged few on Wall Street can gamble away for their own gain, our childrens’ future without consequence?

Where is the outrage when these same ego maniacal titans of Wall Street can “thumb their noses” at the American justice system and deliberately lie to our Congress with relative impunity.

There appeared to be a sliver of hope for America at the onset of the financial meltdown. The plutocrats were worried and shocked as the American people began actually protesting in their own exclusive neighborhoods. They appeared to be in disbelief that ordinary Americans would question or disapprove of them, the privileged. These thieves of Wall Street knew they had to find a way to redirect the public’s rage. We all know what happened after that.

Labor became the new target of America’s rage. The wealthy have been able to manipulate the public and pit worker against worker. They have portrayed government and union workers as overpaid freeloaders by misrepresenting every aspect of the truth. The privileged have once again used their influence to divide the masses.

Unfortunately, organized labor has failed to regain its footing even with recent favorable NLRB changes. My suggestion to Mr. Trumka would be for us to enlist the Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders as the lynch pin for a new progressive movement. Mr. Sanders has never waivered in his support for the working class and I feel he is a man of honor.
Man of honor, now that’s a novel idea in today’s political arena.


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1. I think he's overestimating the right wing's ability to pit us against

each other as workers. I know what the polls have been saying about how 80% of us think the rich need to pay higher taxes, the executives need big pay cuts, and the pain had better be spread if those right wing assholes want to keep their jobs.

The 20% that forms the GOP base and wants to see the rest of us punished soon change their tune when they realize that they, too, will share in the shit coming at the other working people around them.

There is massive anger out there and most of it is being directed toward the people who fucked everything up, the elite who made out like bandits over the last 30 years because they are bandits.

If we want to see the GOP thrown out of power and kept out, then let's see more of their agenda enacted in states like mine that were stupid enough to elect them to counter Democratic power in DC.

There is real anger out there. The Republicans seem to have misread most of it and still think they can harness it.

Nope.

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2. K&R