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jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
Thu Jul 16, 2015, 09:17 AM Jul 2015

Back to the Future With Scott Walker


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If you want to catch a glimpse of what the US would look like under President Scott Walker, you need to turn back the clock to one of the darkest periods in 20th century US history - the Lochner Era.
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In the early 1900s, a bakery owner named Joseph Lochner sued the state of New York over its Bakeshop Act, which limited the number of hours bakery employees could work to 10 hours a day and 60 hours a week.
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No one knew so at the time, but this ended being a big turning point in US history. From when the Lochner case was decided in 1905 until the mid-1930s, the Supreme Court would go on all-out rampage against workers' rights.
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Walker is the strongest Republican candidate out there, and he's backed by a boatload of billionaire money from the Kochs on down.-He could very well be our next president, and if he really is on board with this "health and safety" nonsense, then you can kiss the US middle-class goodbye...


http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31913-back-to-the-future-with-scott-walker

Sure hope all these good folks with all their good candidates don't wake up to see this fella as president next year - but it could very well happen, seeing how things have been going so far.
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