Today, hundreds of thousands of people comprising a Main Street Movement — a coalition of students, the retired, union workers, public employees, and other middle class Americans — are in the streets, demonstrating against brutal cuts to public services and crackdowns on organized labor being pushed by conservative politicians. These lawmakers that are attacking collective bargaining and cutting necessary services like college tuition aid and health benefits for public workers claim that they have no choice but than to take these actions because both state and federal governments are in debt.
But it wasn’t teachers, fire fighters, policemen, and college students that caused the economic recession that has devastated government budgets — it was Wall Street. And as middle class workers are being asked to sacrifice, the rich continue to rig the system, dodging taxes and avoiding paying their fair share.
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Wall Street pays the biggest bribes. Its that simple. And every politician --- every one --- has their hand out, because once you take a ride on the gravy train called Senator or Representative, your retirement and health care are a lock. Guaranteed. No worries. Unlike the rest of us, who believed a contract was a contract and no government official could just wave a hand and take it away (all the while making sure HIS salary and bennies were, of course, not only much greater than ours, but locked in and untouchable).
They are not waving a hand and taking them away. They are requesting increased contributions from the members, and rightfully so.
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