A Wake-Up from Wisconsin: ‘Fight like an Egyptian’

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from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:



A Wake-Up from Wisconsin: ‘Fight like an Egyptian’
February 19, 2011

Wisconsin’s capitol continues to reverberate with the sound and fury of workers and students united — against the ‘Mubarak of the Midwest’ and the wealthy he so diligently shields from any inconvenience.

By Sam Pizzigati


In 1911, exactly a century ago, Wisconsin enacted America’s first state income tax, a tax-the-rich move initially proposed, a few years earlier, by the state’s innovative progressive Republican governor, Robert La Follette.

Now another Wisconsin Republican governor is trying to make history — in the opposite direction. The newly elected Scott Walker isn’t just demanding pay and benefit givebacks from the state’s public employees. He’s pushing labor law changes that would, if enacted, essentially drive their unions out of business.



Hourly wage increasesBut Wisconsin workers are trying to make some history, too. They mobilized last week, in record numbers, to stop Walker’s plan.

Day after day, tens of thousands of protesting Wisconsans surrounded the state capitol building in Madison. On Thursday, inside that capitol, the governor’s Senate allies couldn’t round up enough votes for a quorum. The governor’s rush to gut union rights had fallen strikingly short. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://toomuchonline.org/a-wisconsin-wake-up-fight-like-an-egyptian/

[Newest Reality]

1. An easy inference to make is that

the statistics indicate a strong correlation between our loss and the gains of the top-percentile.

The less we get, the more they can take and stash and utilize in battles against our interests. The less of us employed, (due to efficiency, (read one person doing the jobs of many); outsourcing; increasingly refined automation; insourcing, (prison labor and the like) the better the profit-margin.

Multinationals can move their production and outlets anywhere, as they please to continue to soak-up profit and increase their robber exploitation. They have made enough of off our sweat now to turn the cannons on us. Look where their direction and propaganda has put most of us, now.

I wonder how many people who are still somewhat situated, but not members of the elite, deadbeat rich crowd, see their vulnerability increasing and how much current events, protests, and the growing consensus to fight back are critical to preventing dramatic, sweeping waves of corporate takeover.

The question is, alright, after that, who's next. Well, that's the big question.