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Maddow makes a lot of sense here, but seems to forget that it is a 2 way street. She pointedly admits that Unions are the backbone of the Democratic machine and that Republicans are trying to do away with that. Kind of like how Businesses are the backbone of the Republican machine and Democrats are trying to damage that relationship. Each gives bonuses to their backers. In either case the public loses. Seems to me that the money goes to private security firms, or money goes to Union bosses, over inflated pensions and employees that can not be fired. But that doesn't make what is happening in Wisconsin right.

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I didn't realize RM destroyed people, I thought she just eviscerated them...

>> ^My_design:

Maddow makes a lot of sense here, but seems to forget that it is a 2 way street. She pointedly admits that Unions are the backbone of the Democratic machine and that Republicans are trying to do away with that. Kind of like how Businesses are the backbone of the Republican machine and Democrats are trying to damage that relationship. Each gives bonuses to their backers. In either case the public loses. Seems to me that the money goes to private security firms, or money goes to Union bosses, over inflated pensions and employees that can not be fired. But that doesn't make what is happening in Wisconsin right.


I don't disagree with you that unions sometimes have to much power, enough to prevent firings of people who clearly are doing a piss poor job. I had a teacher in high school who literally slept through most of the classes I can remember. He'd start out the class with 'read pages x through x' and then take a cat nap for the next half hour. But he couldn't be fired because he'd been on the job for 30 years. Instead they fired the young teacher who was actually good at her job to save money.

Beyond that power they cannot be compared to corporations that practically own this nation and it's lawmakers. I mean when was the last time the unions brought the world economy to it's knees?

Aw - how cute. What is she going to do next? Start writing it on a chalkboard? Maybe she and Beck could start being chalkboard buddies. What a load of total claptrap masquerading as 'serious analysis'. I'm getting tired of listening to people who think that biased infotainers like Maddow, Beck, Schultz and all the rest any credibility.

It's bullcrap. All of it. For example, Maddow uses pictures of a bunch of guys in Kabul and then insults completely unrelated security guards in Wisconsin. I didn't like the service I got at a Pizza Hut in Albaquerque once, but that doesn't mean the employees of the Pizza Hut where I live are scumbags. What she's doing utterly dismisses her entire screed as anything but propoganda of the lowest sort.

Anyone who thinks Maddow is anything but a junkyard mutt on the Democrat party chain is addled. Anyone that thinks she has a 'point' in this particular piece of total tripe has to have been pithed. Maddow is as unhinged and full of crap as Beck ever has been.

Obliteration! Annihilation! Total Carnage!!! Desecration! Regurgitation. Humiliation....

>> ^littledragon_79:

I didn't realize RM destroyed people, I thought she just eviscerated them...


I think she may have made a burnt offering of Gov Walker.

Wow, all these media reports seem to think its democrat vs. republican, its not - it's just corporations vs the people. The senator is just a puppet.

indeed indeed!
political parties and divisive media are a distraction to the absolute truth that we all, as a people, basically want the same things:
peace
health
happiness
friends and family

politics, ruled by the top 5%, are like a magician's distraction while he does the slight of hand trick, except that the slight of hand trick involves fucking the rest of the 95% in the ass.

we're onto them.
change happens with people, not governments

>> ^ghark:

Wow, all these media reports seem to think its democrat vs. republican, its not - it's just corporations vs the people. The senator is just a puppet.

I haven't even watched the video yet and I too am getting sick of the "crushes" and "destroys," etc.

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