Fred was also a founding member of the John Birch Society, an ultra-right wing organization which opposes communism (read: unions), opposes collectivism (read: sharing the wealth) and opposes socialism (read: any government program benefiting the masses). They also want to limit the power of the government (read: environmental quality, worker safety regulations, etc.). The JBS headquarters is now located in Grand Chute, WI, while the Kochs just opened a lobby shop within view of Scott Walker's office window.
It is not union negotiated pay scales or benefits or retirement packages for middle class workers that bankrupted our country. Lest we forget, it was the obscenely wealthy criminals on Wall Street . . . AIG, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley . . . who intentionally bankrupted millions of union and nonunion workers and destroyed possibly trillions of dollars of the world's wealth. Only one man, Bernie Madoff, went to jail. His only crime was that he bilked a relatively few of the rich and famous not the middle class masses. No one else has been held responsible for this crime of unimagined worldwide consequence . . . well, other than the unionized middle class.
The point is, if the obscenely rich can break the unions, the only bulwark between a nominally democratic form of government and an outright plutocratic oligarchy, the middle class will become the serf class. We will become little more than "sharecroppers" with no hope of succor or redress other than what the obscenely rich think necessary to keep us on our feet and behind the plow.
I am not the enemy of the Piggly Wiggly clerks. I ask them not to wish too hard for the misfortune of unionized public workers. If we get shot down in this battle, they will become the victims of "friendly" fire.
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