Union Busting Koch Brothers Style

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The last story details how busting the unions is not all that Wisconsin Governor Walker is going after. There is a nice little plum hidden deep inside for his friends.  I hope someone in Iowa is digging deep to see if Branstad is giving away some major plum to a donor or two. You know, just to help keep Branstad honest.

There are times I am beginning to feel like we are in the middle of a cheap Mafia type dime novel where the judges, the politicians and the media are all on the take. We have journalists and citizen journalists that would excite Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. But in these days of mass media, their work is consigned to the margins and often unread. My hat is off to those folks. A special tip to Amy Goodman and Matt Taibi.

We are pretty much back to the robber baron days of the 1890s. I will have to admit when I read about the 1890s in school I made an assumption that they were well behind us forever. Busting the unions will remove the last major road block between us and the return to the 1890s.

Then Wall Street and the banksters will no longer need to go through the motions of democracy.

Dave
Bradley
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Dave Bradley is a self-described
retired observer of American politics “trying to figure out how we got
so screwed up.”  An
Iowa City native currently living in West Liberty,  Dave and his wife
Carol have two grown children who “sadly had to leave the state to find
decent paying jobs.“