Showing posts with label shock doctrine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shock doctrine. Show all posts

Friday, February 25, 2011

Krugman and Sachs, leading economists, take on Walker's attacks on the working middle class

Nobel Prize winning economist writes:
What’s happening in Wisconsin is...a power grab — an attempt to exploit the fiscal crisis to destroy the last major counterweight to the political power of corporations and the wealthy. And the power grab goes beyond union-busting. The bill in question is 144 pages long, and there are some extraordinary things hidden deep inside.

The article is linked here.

Watch this video:

Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs: inequality is greater than it has ever been in America, the middle class is in rapid decline and Republican governors want amazingly to crush unions that are one of the few institutions that speak and fight for the working middle class