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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Queens Teacher: It's War - Private Sector v. Public Sector

Queens Teacher: It's War - Private Sector v. Public Sector

It's War - Private Sector v. Public Sector

Gazillionaires are orchestrating a class warfare. Read this great comment from nytimes.com

First, our jobs are sent to China and Mexico. Whole towns are devestated and the tax base gutted. The owners and the corporations move their accounts off-shore and pay no taxes. The Republicans turn billion dollar surpluses into trillion dollar deficits, deregulate the banks, and fund two wars with blood but not money. The richest 1% has more than the other 99%, while 50 million Americans are without health insurance. The Walton family has more money than the bottom 40% of our people combined by selling goods manufactured by non-union labor in China and sold by non-union, low paid labor in the US. Our quality of life has declined, poverty has