The media is still looking out for the Republicans. All of the major sources for news are clearly still receiving their talking points every day. When the announcer at NBC opens the news story of a new stimulus package by mentioning the number of earmarks that are in it then we know it has been slanted to the right. The other day on NPR they began a news story about how John McCain thinks there should be more corporate tax breaks in the stimulus packages. Am I the only one out there who wants to scream at the radio/TV "I don't give a crap what they think anymore?"
For eight years the American people have been subjected to government at it's very worst. A government that will go down in history as the most ruinous in history. This government was run by Republicans. They were not passive participants in the failure of our economy. Some of them may have been too stupid to have read their history about the unregulated greed that led to the Great Depression or to recognize the danger signs of our current economic catastrophe but they were fully aware that the benefits of their policies were delivered to Corporate America not Middle America.
If you need proof of where the Republicans bloody, tiny hearts lay, please witness the upcoming battle over the Employees Free Choice Act. Now let's ask ourselves who might benefit from a law that allows you to create a union in your workplace? Hmmmmm, let's see, the worker! A union accomplishes workplace stability, a living wage, decent working conditions and a happy middle class. So now let's ask ourselves why this would be bad? Because it cut's into company profits, CEO bonuses, shareholder dividend checks and Swiss bank accounts. Please watch carefully on which side of this argument the Republicans fall on.
Then ask yourself why we should care about them and their ideas when they've shown us over and over that they are not on our side.
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