A Wake-Up from Wisconsin: 'Fight like an Egyptian'
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.
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 ...
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i recommend the alternet article; our economic pain is coming from big industry. the problem has become systemic--not just wisconsin-- our country, most western nations--most of the world--, becoming over the last few decades much more conservative in economic factors, with large corporations becoming much larger, and the 'market' numbers playing a large role in determining unemployment/ employment, rates of pay for workers, political battles over taxes, with many at the higher end lowered or loopholed out. and most economic factors, which now seem to determine where power lies--power to hang on to the' material good life', whether it's used to, or just being acquired now, as the competition for acquiring it can, it seems only get hotter.