The quote of the day today comes from Robert Scheer, who was speaking on the weekly Left, Right & Center show out of California. Scheer makes the case for ending the attacks on public workers and building up workers everywhere — a case that used to be a staple of the Democrats’ rallying cry.
I don’t like the demonization of public workers. I think that it’s just jealousy. What I think we should do is improve the condition for all workers so that the condition of public workers with their decent retirement does not seem so exceptional.
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The war against public workers and their unions is just appalling and disgusting. The most common pejorative hurled against union workers is that they are thugs, lazy and greedy. Oh yeah, those greedy union police, firefighters, EMTs and Port Authority police who saved thousands of lives on 9/11. All those greedy public school teachers with 2 or three homes and Rolls Royces. It's a race to the bottom to Walmartize all US workers, it's union busting, pure and simple.
The corporate oligarchs will not be satisfied until they have liquidated all unions in the US. Non union workers are jealous of the benefits that union workers fought for over many decades. Christie has stoked this jealousy and engaged in class warfare between union and non union workers. Christie is very popular in NJ because he has demonized teachers and their unions. For ordinary working people to support Christie, who is not their friend, proves how stupid and short sighted people can be.