Brothers And Sisters

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To the Tea People:


One of your group said during the last election cycle that you wanted your country back. The problem is it’s not just your country, it’s our country too. The labor movement is part of our history, your history. The reason you have weekends is because of unions, the 40 hr work week is because of unions, workman’s comp, health care benefits, overtime pay, “safe as possible” working conditions, to name but a few. Workers were beaten and killed by those who didn’t earn their money, but got rich by rigging the system to have it pour into their coffers by design, deception and cronyism.


The Tea Party is now a part of our history as well. At present the best view of the Tea Party from history’s perspective is that you are seen as a sell-out group of meat puppets with the collective hand of the ultra rich (via the Fox Players) up your collective ass, pulling your strings and having you speak someone else’s mind; the mind of the heartless, soulless greed monger.


Why?!


Why do you take the side of those who are trying to end your freedoms and rob you of your citizenship by taking away your only real voice? You see what the corporate interest is doing to your brothers and sisters in the unions in Wisconsin…YES, YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. They are not your enemies as the Fox Players are desperately trying to get you to think. The Fox Players live in fear that you will realize you have much more in common with unions and labor than with the ultra rich, who get “creeped out” when you are in their presence. To them, you are dullards and goons that they manipulate to do their bidding. But if the Fox Players can get you to hate us, then your ass is theirs automatically, because it is your voice, as well as ours, that is under siege in Madison right now. But for some reason you are on the side of your own oppressors.


I implore you to realize that the people you are worshipping at Fox are politicians too, and you will only be well served if you rake them over the same coals and in the same way you do the liberal politicians. We welcome your concern, they will not. If you try to rake the republican politicians over the coals, you will find them pulling every old trick on you that they pull on us; they will attempt to ostracize you, vilify you, alienate you, vandalize you, curse at you, and hate you…and you know this is true because you are helping the greed mongers do all that to us right now. The thing is we don’t care anymore because we realize that if we are ruled by a plutocracy, we become slaves. You have to realize that this includes you. The plutocrats have no intention of befriending you. They will tell you whatever they have to because they need you as “muscle” against your own. When they’re done with you, however, you will have no voice whatsoever in the affairs of your own life. They will not give one insignificant damn that you were faithful to their cause.


Eventually, your boss will inform you that “times are tough” (still) and your wages are going to be cut in half and your benefits have been cancelled altogether, while he plans yet another vacation in Cancun. Then who are you going to turn to…Glen Beck? [Sorry, he’s vacationing in Cancun with some business guy.] Not only will they tread on you, my friends, they will relieve themselves on you in the process. Remember, these are the major league greedy we’re talking about here; they only take, they do not give.


The fact that you hate us so much for standing against blind corporate greed must make even you wonder what side of good and evil you’re on. What kind of world do you think you are going to live in if we do become a plutocracy? Please don’t answer this with a Fox Players sound bite. Really, when your wages get deeply cut, and you have to sell you home and move into a “workers camp” because it’s the only thing you can afford…and your wife is dying and your child is sick so you have to sell your guns and tools, etc, to cover the down payment on your health care services, and you can’t afford to own a truck or a car or a skateboard for that matter, and there’s no public transportation either, and your diet is limited to starch and fat…who, then, are you going to be able to turn to for help? If you say, “each other”, then you are a unionizing, anti-American, socialist bastard…right, or no hey? Because the word picture I just painted comes from the struggle that labor had to endure to get what rights we have now.


You, the Tea Party, are the “muscle” of corporate greed. Without you they are powerless. If you really want to make history, I mean really make history, side with us on this one...and watch Glen Beck’s career melt, and Limbaugh’s kingdom crumble. You will then hear them ostracize you, vilify you, alienate you, vandalize you, curse at you, and hate you…. But like all abusers, they will “forgive” you for acting without their permission and against their will because they have to. They might make millions, but not without you. In terms of real contributions to humanity, however, you people are worth much more than those two pant loads will ever be. You make stuff or make stuff happen, or both. Those two are instrumental in spreading hatred and derision among our neighbors and friends to benefit the ultra greedy.


Pundits are totally dependant on their followers for their longevity. All I can ask is that you make sure those you follow are taking you somewhere you want to go.


If the ultra greedy win in Madison, democracy in the United States will be in name only.


“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around.”
[“Life During Wartime”, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads.]


On the cathedral door:

I hope you didn’t unpack yet, Scotty, because you aren’t staying. Look what just came in:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/21/947947/-The-Koch-Brothers-End-Game-in-Wisconsin


and more...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/22/wisconsin-pension-fund-among-healthiest-us_n_826709.html

et plus. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/22/wisconsin.budget/index.html?hpt=T1#

Oh boy...

http://budget.wispolitics.com/2011/02/excerpts-from-walkers-call-with-david.html

...this one was a surprise...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/24/shep-smith-wisconsin-figh_n_827547.html

And this is simply fantastic:

http://slatest.slate.com/id/2285906


Recall Gov. Scott Walker! He prefers to serve out-of-state billionaires rather than the people of Wisconsin.

Strip Scott Walker of his Wisconsin citizenship. He is oblivious to the history of the people who make this state Wisconsin. He is using the office of Governor of Wisconsin as a launching point for his national political desires. He is not here to serve and protect the people of this state.

Strip Scott Walker of any labor rights or benefits. As he rejects the history of labor in this state, he shall then live without those protections for which people of Wisconsin fought and died.

Cut Scott Walker’s salary to the average teacher’s pay, then cut that by 9% because “times are tough”...He doesn’t receive any health plan because that was made possible by unions, so we don’t have to worry about that. No overtime pay, no workman’s comp (though he might get a hernia carrying those billionaires around on his back), no weekends, no vacation…oh yeah, he has to pay for his elderly parents care now too. (“Dip into your savings?” No, no you don’t have any savings. You’re living that rich teacher’s life now.) We will take the old Scott Walker’s savings and buy health insurance for those “freeloading” children of the poor….

Let us, also, make absolutely certain he understands that there is not a damn thing he can do about it. He will not be allowed to have any bargaining rights.

We should also check and see if the phrase “Superbus Phallum” appears anywhere on his coat of arms.

Pledge to recall Scott Walker:

http://www.unitedwisconsin.com/




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