"Michigan is Screwed" - The Rachel Maddow Show

[defendbrooklyn]

the unions have been pushing through 3% raises for 20 years

I've been teaching 10 years and never had a 3% raise...

[Detroitnerd]

I've been teaching 10 years and never had a 3% raise...

Ah, but that's the trick:

1) Create a fiscal disaster that requires giving all our money to the rich, impoverishing our governments through foreclosures and falling tax revenues

2) Convince everybody that the real problem is public sector workers, with their sweet deals and Cadillac benefits [[remember those "welfare moms" who were supposed to be driving Caddies?)

3) Tell beleaguered and impoverished private sector workers that the public sector unions have it sweet, and pit them against each other

4) Break the public unions, freeing up more money for the super-rich to steal

Divide and conquer, baby. Divide and conquer.

[R8RBOB]

Ah, but that's the trick:

1) Create a fiscal disaster that requires giving all our money to the rich, impoverishing our governments through foreclosures and falling tax revenues

2) Convince everybody that the real problem is public sector workers, with their sweet deals and Cadillac benefits [[remember those "welfare moms" who were supposed to be driving Caddies?)

3) Tell beleaguered and impoverished private sector workers that the public sector unions have it sweet, and pit them against each other

4) Break the public unions, freeing up more money for the super-rich to steal

Divide and conquer, baby. Divide and conquer.

You know this reeks of late 2008 and 2009 when the GOP was blaming the financial collapse on minorities taking home loans that they couldn't repay. They somehow convinced the clueless who joined the Tea Parties that banks and billionaire investors had no hand in the collapse yet they walked away not only with their money but more money. In 2011, it is the unions that is creating debt to all 50 states. Yes, we have been down this road one too many times.