Buffalo Boy's Blog

The republicans continue to blame the unions for the financial meltdown we are having. This editorial by Brent Budowsky hits the nail on the head.

How can you blame unions for the mess when who is getting the majority of this bailout money? $7 trillion has been spent and most of it has gone right into the hands of the richest CEO's in America only to piss it away again.

Detroit has already gotten $50 billion, AIG got two bailouts....Its "socialism for the rich" as Budowsky puts it. How can you blame hard working, average Americans who are just trying to pay their bills.

When you don't have unions you work for a minimum wage that hasn't gone up nearly enough to keep pace with cost of living over the years. You get companies that ignore their employees healthcare needs and schedule employees for far longer hours than they should and don't provide workers with nearly enough sick and/or vacation time.

As unions die so too do workers rights to healthcare, fair pay that adjusts for cost of living. Its pathetic how easy it has been for Republicans to blame the worker instead of blaming the CEOs and Wallstreet executives who really got us here.