{"id":4968,"date":"2011-07-21T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2011-07-21T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:23:19","slug":"whose-side-are-you-on-reagan-or-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"Whose Side Are You On, Reagan Or Labor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

FYI: The headline of this article is a trick question.<\/p>\n

In the long-running debate over government spending, Republicans have repeatedly brought up unrelated issues connected to worker’s rights and collective bargaining. GOP governors across the nation are attempting to use the economic crisis to break unions and rollback the gains that working Americans have achieved over decades of organizing with massive popular support.<\/p>\n

However, these regressive politicians who are doing the bidding of their wealthy, corporate benefactors, have a stark disagreement with one of their professed heroes:<\/p>\n

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Let me repeat that:<\/p>\n

“Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right. None other than the sainted Ronald Reagan recognized how valuable unions are to America. This comment is more than a passive bit of pandering to working class constituents. It is an unambiguous affirmation that unions are not just a tangential group of negotiators for farmers or factory workers, but a vital institution that is a necessary component of freedom.<\/p>\n

This should not come as too much of a surprise when considering that Reagan was the first, and only, union president (Screen Actors Guild) who ever ascended to the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, GOP governors have been bad-mouthing unions and their members for months (years, really). They refer to them as thugs and conjure up Mafioso imagery. They have embarked on a coordinated campaign to smear and discredit the very organizations that are standing up for our nations citizens and families, most of whom are working people, not wealthy hedge fund managers. It’s dishonest and dangerous and intended to harm average Americans.<\/p>\n

Speaking of dangerous, the GOP governors who are mounting these attacks are represented by the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA). That’s the organization that Rupert Murdoch gave a million dollars to last year. Well, I would stay away from their web site. Norton Internet Security, a leading Internet software company that monitors web safety, reports that the RGA.org is “Unsafe” with six live computer threats.<\/p>\n

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The irony is delicious. The Republican governors web site is unsafe, a threat even, just as are the policies of their members.<\/p>\n

[Update}<\/strong> This morning the RGA’s site status by Norton changed to “Untested.”<\/em> That’s still not particularly comforting. However, it is also not nearly as accurate. The GOP’s policies have been tested and they do not work. We’ve had Bush’s tax cuts for the rich (I mean “job creators”<\/em>) in place for ten years. Where are the jobs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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