Bahrain, Libya, Algeria... protests everywhere.
And in Wisconsin:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12498249
Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin have left the capitol to try to slow a bill aimed at curtailing public employees' collective bargaining rights.
They described it as an attack on workers' livelihoods.
Republicans in Washington DC and state capitals have moved to cut government spending this year, including on public worker pay, in a bid to curb deficits. The legislation had been expected to pass the Republican-led Wisconsin state legislature on Thursday.
But Wisconsin Senate rules require 20 senators to be present for a quorum; Republicans hold 19 seats and the Democrats 14. Senate Democrats did not show up for the session, and aides told reporters they did not know where the legislators had gone.Just as we have seen elsewhere, such as Moqtada AsSadri's people walking out, like the Egyptian opposition parties walking out, we are seeing it here. I said 10 years. What a goof!
(It is tough. Obviously no budget can be reduced without trampling over some peoples' rights, right? That's how we used to balance the budget. That's how we did it at home; we did not sit around and discuss; we just crapped on everyone and get everyone mad. It works great!)
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When you have an entire party that REFUSES under any circumstances to enact revenue-raising measures, and indeed sanctions continuing to shut off hundreds of billions in revenue as a favor to the richest among us, I think the idea of sacrifice by everybody seems a little disingenuous.
It is incomprehensible, brutal, and vicious. It is the most blatantly immoral act I have ever seen, and they whatever fate the Furies have in store for them.
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