perhaps we need to vote out conservatives who continue to work actively to gut the public sector on the one hand and then basically lie about the role of unions in making them financially precarious.
in principle there's no problem with public-sector unions representing employees of the state. what the right has done is to basically mischaracterize by erasing the nature of the state as employer and replacing it with an image of the state as a mechanism for the redistribution of wealth.
the second mischaracterization is that the problems of financial sustainability states are confronting follow from the application of conservative economic policies. period.
classic divide and conquer. turn one segment of folk who struggle to make ends meet against another, like has been said before.
but the real problem is conservative economic ideology, conservative economic policy.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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