When do we get something like their Minister of Propaganda Luntz?
At last in print today, the real 'cause' of Wisconsin's 'budget crisis,'
special tax and other treatment doled out by Governor Walker to his Republican Goombahs,
but how many Americans have heard about this? Blame our messaging deficiencies;
credit their propaganda machine; when will we learn!?! The message out there now?
It's all the greedy working stiffs' fault, like our first reponders and our teachers.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/opinion/21krugman.html"WISCONSIN POWER PLAY
Mr. Walker isn’t interested in making a deal. Partly that’s because he doesn’t want to share the sacrifice: even as he proclaims that Wisconsin faces a terrible fiscal crisis, he has been pushing through tax cuts that make the deficit worse. Mainly, however, he has made it clear that rather than bargaining with workers, he wants to end workers’ ability to bargain.
The bill that has inspired the demonstrations would strip away collective bargaining rights for many of the state’s workers, in effect busting public-employee unions. Tellingly, some workers — namely, those who tend to be Republican-leaning — are exempted from the ban; it’s as if Mr. Walker were flaunting the political nature of his actions.
Why bust the unions? As I said, it has nothing to do with helping Wisconsin deal with its current fiscal crisis. Nor is it likely to help the state’s budget prospects even in the long run: contrary to what you may have heard, public-sector workers in Wisconsin and elsewhere are paid somewhat less than private-sector workers with comparable qualifications, so there’s not much room for further pay squeezes.
So it’s not about the budget; it’s about the power."