Robt Reich answers the Maine Governor

[MBS]

http://robertreich.org/post/4050985028

Why Governor LePage Can't Erase History and Why We Need a Fighter in the White HouseMaine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history. . . . .The Governor’s spokesman explains that the mural and the conference-room names were “not in keeping with the department’s pro-business goals.” Are we still in America?

Frances Perkins . . and her boss, Franklin D. Roosevelt, came to office at a time when average working people needed help – and Perkins and Roosevelt were determined to give it to them. Together, they created Social Security, unemployment insurance, the right of workers to unionize, the minimum wage, and the forty-hour workweek. Big business and Wall Street thought Perkins and Roosevelt were not in keeping with pro-business goals. So they and their Republican puppets in Congress and in the states retaliated with a political assault on the New Deal.

Roosevelt did not flinch. In a speech in October 1936 he condemned “business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.” Big business and Wall Street, he said,"had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. . . "

Fast forward 75 years. Big business and Wall Street have emerged from the Great Recession with their pockets bulging. . . But most Americans are still in desperate trouble. . . .That’s why the current Republican assault on workers – on their right to form unions, on unemployment insurance and Social Security, on public employees, and even (courtesy of Governor LePage) on our common memory – is so despicable. And it’s why we need a President who will fight for workers and fight against this assault . . .

[SpiralHawk]

1. Republicons are so anti-citizen

it is just vomitous how the republicons take their marching orders from the billionaires -- and crap all over the citizens.

[Geoffrey_Lebowski]

2. Friggin awesome article ...

Love me some Robert Reich ...