Ron Johnson has never really connected with the plight of workers, hell he brought in prison labor as temp help, but this Ayn Randian induced disconnect is hardly voter representation.
Why voters clamoring for jobs never held him accountable for dissing them as an unfortunate consequence of “creative destruction,” I’ll never know, but his latest backhand to the massive public outcry over Gov. Walker’s austere cuts is nothing less than monstrous.
Washington Post: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a former businessman and now a freshman senator, held a conference call Thursday afternoon with a small group of bloggers. I asked him about Wisconsin. Why did Gov. Scott Walker take so long to pull out the "fiscal" elements and pass the legislation without a quorum? Johnson first made clear that he and the governor believe this "is not about individual workers . . . but about rebalancing the equation" so that the taxpayers' interests are being protected.
Got that? It’s not about us, workers and taxpayers, but our inability to look out for our own best interests. Thank god we have the Republican disciplinarians to protect us from ourselves.
Johnson’s phony "Gary Cooper" naivety also suggests taking labors money out of our elections just “rebalances the equation.” Yeah, now the corporations can battle it out amongst themselves.
What made the Fitzgerald’s and Walker finally flip flop on the fiscal nature of collective bargaining?
He said that one Democratic senator even requested an absentee ballot for the spring election. At that point Walker moved forward on the bill.
What is quickly approaching one million, citizen protesters state wide are little more than mobs and thugs, according to Johnson:
But Johnson was clearly disturbed by what he characterized as "mob rule and thuggery." He said that Republicans were being accused of being undemocratic, but "what doesn't look democratic is the mob rule." He argued that the "amount of thuggery, the threats of execution" have not been sufficiently covered by the media.
Here you go...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cx77K8e3WE
ReplyDeleteHere you go what? a bouncy camera that seems only to show an old guy in no danger unless he's afraid of cameras?
ReplyDeleteEmotional discomfort is not exactly life threatening