Slavery- The New Working Class
I repeat in its entirety a comment today by BuzzFlash editor Mark Karlin:
I have been predicting this sort of thing for years now. As long as I have had this blog, I have said that Republicans would soon find a way to effectively reinstitute slavery. The Republican party is engaged in a deliberate, open attempt to turn this country into a Fascist dictatorship. How much more obvious do they have to make their intentions before people catch on? Or, as with the Nazis, are people going to avert their eyes until it takes another 50 million dead to undo the damage?
We are witnessing the rise in the United States a cadre of rulers that have not one shred more decency than Heinrich Himmler or Joseph Goebbels. I see no way to halt this evil Juggernaut; particularly with a President whose feckless collapses in the face of aggressive behavior rival those of Neville Chamberlain. The threat this time is internal, not external, but the need is the same; and the man is inadequate to the challenge.
"Truthout carries a report today that as a result of Scott Walker's assault on public employees, prisoners are now replacing union workers in Racine, Wisconsin.
It might have been perceived as an hysterical exaggeration to predict that the GOP attack on the value of labor would lead to not just low-wage jobs, but to no-wage jobs. One commentator calls this the "new slavery."
This is not the first use of what is, in essence, modern slave labor in the US. Some of the Pentagon's military contractors allegedly use prisoners to assemble military equipment at slave wages (e.g., 23 cents an hour).
With the loss of illegal immigrants as farm workers, prison labor is soon to follow in the agricultural fields of the South.
It was one of the great advances of modern civilization that workers were granted livable wages and that their labor was recognized as having inherent dignity.
Now, we are moving backward to an antebellum society that believes the lowest cost labor is no-cost labor."
It might have been perceived as an hysterical exaggeration to predict that the GOP attack on the value of labor would lead to not just low-wage jobs, but to no-wage jobs. One commentator calls this the "new slavery."
This is not the first use of what is, in essence, modern slave labor in the US. Some of the Pentagon's military contractors allegedly use prisoners to assemble military equipment at slave wages (e.g., 23 cents an hour).
With the loss of illegal immigrants as farm workers, prison labor is soon to follow in the agricultural fields of the South.
It was one of the great advances of modern civilization that workers were granted livable wages and that their labor was recognized as having inherent dignity.
Now, we are moving backward to an antebellum society that believes the lowest cost labor is no-cost labor."
I have been predicting this sort of thing for years now. As long as I have had this blog, I have said that Republicans would soon find a way to effectively reinstitute slavery. The Republican party is engaged in a deliberate, open attempt to turn this country into a Fascist dictatorship. How much more obvious do they have to make their intentions before people catch on? Or, as with the Nazis, are people going to avert their eyes until it takes another 50 million dead to undo the damage?
We are witnessing the rise in the United States a cadre of rulers that have not one shred more decency than Heinrich Himmler or Joseph Goebbels. I see no way to halt this evil Juggernaut; particularly with a President whose feckless collapses in the face of aggressive behavior rival those of Neville Chamberlain. The threat this time is internal, not external, but the need is the same; and the man is inadequate to the challenge.
Comments
I can't offer anything but to remark that I've reread your comment above half a dozen times today and shared it with someone else.
Yours is the sort of comment people need to see and be confronted by.
That is a beautiful comment. How do I just know that you are not the same Anonymous that writes in to tell lies about the economy?
Talking Points Memo reported today that Rep. Paul Ryan, yeah, that guy who wants to cut Medicare and anything that the middle and poorer classes need to stay above the poverty line--that Ryan--he was seen in a fancy Washington DC restaurant drinking a $350 bottle of wine.
Get the tumbrels ready to roll!
I'd sort of figured that out. The only thing I'm afraid of is that we both know who the other Anonymous is.
But that is the other "anonymous"