love them nurses

[ensho]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rose-ann-demoro/missing-in-madison--where_b_829457.html


Nurses Offer to Buy President's Shoes to March With Workers


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Many of us recall the pledge made by candidate Barack Obama in Spartanburg, S.C. on November 3, 2007 when he declared:

"Understand this. If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain, when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States because Americans deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner."

We're waiting. Nurses, who have been on the ground every day in Madison and at support rallies across the country, will buy his shoes.

Standing with the embattled workers would be an important symbol (and might even get more of the media to show up). But we need far more from this administration -- and for that matter from the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill.

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Here's what we'd like to hear the President say:

Bringing the deficit into balance requires a just rebalancing of the responsibility of the corporate elite and the rich. As a start, corporate profits need to be fairly taxed. Taxes on the rich need to be increased not decreased, and wages should be raised to a living wage, which would raise tax revenues and workers' ability to purchase goods and services in the long term.

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and I'd like to see more from the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill

what's up with their silence and inaction?

[liberalhistorian]

1. I certainly agree, but it's THOSE

nurses. THOSE. People will listen to you more if you're more literate.

[ensho]

3. I chose to use slang - get a grip

nt

[slackmaster]

4. The nurses I dated in 2000-2001 all turned out to be "them"

:argh:

[babydollhead]

2. good!

[BlueIris]

5. Heh.

We'll be waiting a while, I think, until there's any real walking anywhere.