SCOTT WALKER, ALEC AND THE KOCH BROTHERS: A DEVIOUS TRIO AGAINST AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
If you are a
hard working American or if you have a job where you take a shower, after you
come home from work, please beware! You
do not want a man such as Scott Walker sitting behind the desk in the Oval
Office in the White House.
Walker, the
current Wisconsin Governor, always starts his stump speeches with some version
of a statement such as, “We took on the
unions and we won!”
Recently in
San Diego, the conservative organization American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) had their annual conference. A group of Republican California State
legislators that were dedicated to defeating unions attended and the
Wisconsin governor was an invited speaker.
ALEC is the Koch Brother’s
sponsored organization that inspired many of Walker’s anti-labor efforts in
Wisconsin. The conference also drew
several hundred union protesters as legislators arrived there during the week.
As expected,
at the conference, Walker had to brag about his experience in beating the
unions in Wisconsin and his first comments were pretty disgusting.
Per Walker, “I understand you had a few protesters
yesterday,” he told the ALEC
attendees. “For us, that’s just getting warmed
up. That [several hundred protestors] was nothing, we had 100,000 protesters.”
Walker had
recently announced his official campaign for the Republican nomination for
president. But he took time off from his
campaign trip to attend the conference.
It gave him a great venue and an opportunity to refer to the pro-union
protestors as “violent thugs”. He also referred to them as only being in
support of big government interests and that “the protestors believe they can win by intimidating elected officials”. He said. “There were amazing things they did to try to intimidate us. The good
news is we didn’t back down. We remembered the reason we were elected was not
to serve the few in our state capitol, but to serve the masses.”
Interesting
that Walker thinks that his version of the “American
masses” are those that receive
millions in donations from the Koch
Brothers. And hard-working union
members are not considered a part of the nation’s working “masses”.
Whether or not
you are a union worker, you should be doing all you can to keep this man out of
the White House.
Yes, Donald
Trump may be the head-clown driving the
GOP Clown Car, but Walker (the latest Clown Car participant) is more dangerous and more in line with
another evil man from Wisconsin’s past, the late Senator Joe McCarthy.
McCarty was
the Wisconsin senator that made his national reputation by scaring the hell out
of the country with lies about the Red menace of American communists. He ruined many American’s lives and
reputations, some of them Hollywood stars, by falsely accusing them of being
members of the Communist party.
No, Walker
does not accuse anyone of being a communist. But he does use McCarthy’s
accusation approach of suggesting that all of the nation’s problems are due to
the labor unions. This is even though
unions represent just 11% of today’s
American workforce. In fact, labor
unions are at their lowest level of participation and governmental influence in
decades. But that doesn’t stop Walker
from scapegoating all of the nation’s problems on the backs of America’s union
workers.
The governor’s
speeches always tend to describe “collective
bargaining” as a totally “corrupt
system” and he has diagnosed all union leaders as having a “sense of entitlement.” After he beat the
public-sector unions in Wisconsin and after he survived a recall election,
Walker signed anti-union Right-to-Work
legislation. This made Wisconsin a “Right to Work” state that allows that
anyone can be fired for no reason at all.
For his
campaign rhetoric, Walker says he doesn’t think the minimum wage serves a
purpose, and he has opposed “prevailing-wage
and living-wage” requirements.
At the ALEC conference, Walker was the featured
speaker. He was even introduced by an ALEC official, Leah Vukmir (R), who is
also a Wisconsin state senator. The
senator introduced him by talking about the “unhinged wrath of the forces” who opposed him, and their “unprecedented vile behavior.”
Walker has
likened the union protesters in Madison, Wisc., to the terrorist and murderous Islamic State (ISIL). He even stated that: “If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.” So, apparently he is comparing all American
union worker to Islamic terrorists. He described public-sector union members as
be a part of the nation’s “haves”,
and that these “haves” take advantage
of the “have-nots”, which is what he
calls the US taxpayers. Of course, to
Walker, union members are not considered to be any of those American tax payers.
In his ALEC speech, Walker even referred to how
his, “big, bold reforms took the power
out of the hands of big government special interests, namely unions.”
Of course, he
failed to mentioned how his bold state reforms only produced half the number of
jobs he had promised, and 1/4 of the manufacturing jobs. Those big, bold
reforms also resulted in delayed state debt payments, deep cuts to Wisconsin’s
education budget and a $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin budget, just for overcoming a major a $2.2 billion state
budget deficit.
Walker
continues to talk about the threats that he has received for himself and his
family and to his supporters in the state legislature from union members. But he has nothing to say about the
devastating things his decisions as the Wisconsin governor have done to the
many Wisconsin workers, and not just those in the unions.
Walker
sponsors his total deception to the public by laying the blame for all that is
wrongs in America on the backs of America’s union workers.
This man does
not deserve to achieve the highest office in the land and to become the
Commander in Chief of the world’s most powerful military. Walker has said his first moves as president
would be to nullify the P5+1 nuclear agreement with Iran and his second move
would be to repeal Obamacare, which
is impossible, as a president cannot do either of these items on his or her own.
For these
issues alone, Walker should not be allowed any support for becoming the
President of the United States.
Copyright G.Ater 2015
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