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Monday, March 07, 2011

The Koch Brothers' Dream Workplace
Posted by Jill | 5:57 AM
Yesterday I watched part of the PBS documentary on the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire of 1911. I don't think this is from the same feature, but these recollections of survivors of the factory demonstrate vividly what the workplace looks like when corporations are completely unfettered by regulations and organized labor:




Steven D. over at Booman Tribune blows a hole in all the Republican bullshit about jobs and economic growth and gets to the real agenda:
The Republicans in Congress, and in states across the country are making no bones about their agenda: they desire to kill unions and worker's rights. They desire to kill the EPA, and kill any regulation regarding worker safety, drug safety, food safety, environmental safety -- you name it. They want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and healthcare reform with a thousand cuts until nothing is left but private accounts managed by by their buddies at Wall Street to which you are forced to contribute. They want to privatize prisons and schools.

They want an end to financial assistance to college students and their families (except football and basketball players, of course). They want to kill any investment in alternative fuels and public transportation. They desire the awarding of no-bid contracts to their "friends," i.e., the people who contributed the most to their political campaigns. Oh, and they want to make it ever more difficult, if not impossible, for innovative small businesses to compete with the corporate behemoths that dominate our political landscape. Indeed, without a middle class how can small businesses not dedicated to serving the desires of the rich survive?

In short, the goal of the New and Improved Tea Party Republican Governors and Legislators is to drive a stake through the heart of anyone who still believes he or she is a member of the middle class. As one of their own recently remarked those of us "slobs" in the middle class are a "different breed" the implication being that we are parasites on the body of corporate wealth and power rather than the collective engine of human labor and productivity that made that wealth and power possible.

It's long, but it's worth your time to read the whole thing.

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Anonymous Kana W said...
I think I just figured something out - when the Republicans/Conservatives say they're for 'small government', they're not saying that they want to keep government out of people's lives, what they're actually saying is that they want to keep government cheap. Spending? Bad. Intrusive laws? No problem........
3/8/11, 2:14 AM  
Anonymous BillCinSD said...
I think they prefer the Kader Toy Factory Fire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kader_Toy_Factory_fire

Don McGlashan (ex-Muttonbirds) did a great song about it on his Warm Hand recording
3/12/11, 10:13 PM  
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