Money still trumps people

The Wisconsin primary is in the rear view mirror and we move on to our next crisis. It proved to be just another case of corporate interest trumping economic policy that might possibly have worked for the greater whole. There are clearly many business interests that believe they can continue to pursue policies that are against the greater good relying on flooding the airwaves with money at the last minute to convince people to buy into things that are not in their interst. Last night, I believe that this maxim held up though possibly not as well as it previously had when Alberta Darling defeated Sandy Pasch in the eighth district, to help the Republicans maintain control of the state senate.

The corporate interest rely on people who don't earn $100,000 dollars to be jealouse that someone might have a better deal that you do, so we'll pull one another down into the mud pit as corporate interest abscound with the funds. On,  the other side, is the believe that it may be possible to do something for the greater collective good.

According to Todays7mj4.com,  "Non-partisan watchdog group, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign says outside interest groups have spent between $10 and 12 million dollars statewide in recall elections. Executive Director Mike McCabe says it's likely closer to $12 million."

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Todays7mj4.com went on to add, "Stephan Thompson, executive director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, said the money shows the importance of the recalls.

"On the republican side, Wisconsin Club for Growth -- a group that's not registered and doesn't have to report how it spends its money -- has poured in more than $800,000 into television ads alone. It's also distributing fliers and buying radio time."

In turn the journal would note that "out of state zip codes" had contributed $41,000 to the Pasch while noting that the Darling campaign received 27 thousand dollars from out of state donors.

This was largely seen as the first election in the new "Citizens United" world or, as we at LP like to refer to as, the Supreme Court's bribery made legal ruling. Where opponents like to portray union members as all living in Washington penthouses or being shadowy Mafioso type figures a lot of this money comes from rank and file members. Is there abuses in unions, no doubt, but comparing large special corporate interests to the dues that come from teachers, policemen, and firemen is like comparing apples and oranges. Yet the media offers up this false equivelncy daily until enough people even seem to think they have more to fear from their own neighbors, who make roughly about what they do, than they do from a CEO who would fire them tomorrow if it would increase his numbers. On the Darliing side of the ledger is a group who refuses to tell anyone who they are or where there money came from because, I assume, they feel if the general public knew they would not approve of them or to insulate their company from the wrath of their customers.

If I was a predictor Mr. Walker's policies will make the school poorer so that the sons and daughters of those making under $100,000 will be less competitive in the future. The state workers will take a pay cut and have fewer rights with regards to their corporate overlords, which  will bring less money into the economy. The police and fire will be punished for not rolling over and allowing their fellow union members to be jacked up, thus further impoverishing the middle class and giving them less spending money, which will ripple into stores, which ripple into the hiring. More people will lose their job or be forced to take a pay cut, at a time when the Republicans in Washington and at the state level are cutting unemployment. And this will help those making under $100,000, how? I suppose it will give them a little more pocket chaige to buy more crap from China, which will give them the incentive to go deeper in debt.

Last night, enough Americans who make less than $100,000 came together to buy a television ad made by an outside company, that cares very little about them. Elections come and go and soon another election will around. If you are dispairing about the future do yourself a favor turn off the television, shut the radio, and throw out the fliers. You might actually find you get more of what you want out that way. Besides the telivision was probably be made oversees anyhow as since your parents time Americans can't be expected to work any how. There job is to buy things in the new economy and if they don't have the money there is always credit.