We lost the capital

It seems the momentum is dying. How can people so callously cut people's wages, financial aid, health care all the while giving tax cuts to the weathly.
They are going to continue to do it unless all the people stop fighting each other and band together against the real enemy-the banks, the Koch brothers, the oil companies. Why tear a pound of flesh out of workers.

News flash-we have household budgets too. Why should we lose our homes because we have to bear the sole burden of budget shortfall causeed by the greed of the weathy?

This is insanity. It is a nighmare I wish I could wake up from. I want to get a Snotty Walker punching bad and hit it until I feel better

We hold the capital and have a new ally

It looks like my fellow Americans are not going to give up. They know too much is at stake.
Protesters will not leave the capital and the police will not arrest them (go figure, since the right calls them lazy idiots freedloading off the taxpayer).
Anonymous the Wikileaks attack hacker has also joined forces both with a heartfelt message of support for us and condemnation of the oppressors and also with cyber attacks.
I am beginning to think we can win this thing after all. "We the People" will truly have a country again.
Thanks protesters and anonymous. I think I will sleep a little better tonight

This is not democracy

This is an undoing of democracy. Today the State Assembly of Wisconsin voted to strip people of the right to collective bargaining. "But this is America, I thought, built on people's basic rights to life, liberty, free speech, etc."

Then I realized this was not the first strike at democracy. And although the corruption at the top negates democracy also I am specifically talking about attempts and victories of stripping rights away from people.

For years now women's rights have been under attack. Gay rights as well.
Why is the nation that prides itself on being the "land of the free" trying to take as many freedoms as possible away from its citizens?

The nation at war

No I am not talking about our wars of oil, or any war abroad. I am talking about the class war where ground zero is Madison and my husband's income is at stake.

We have actually been in a class war since Reagan busted the union over thirty years ago. The ante was upped by Bush and his tax cuts to the wealthy, and even Clinton's trade agreements. The middle class has been struggling to keep their standard of living and along comes the housing crisis.

First we had to take second job, with practically everyone needing a two income family. Then we had to work longer hours at these jobs for less pay. Then we simply had to borrow because we could not possibly work anymore. Then the debt option was taken away.

So here we are, busted, tired, out of options and here come the new republicans to try to deliver the death blow. If they succeed this country will never be the same. I do not know how so many people carry on with their days. I cannot sleep a full night anymore, even with sleeping pills.

I still cannot understand the evil mind of those so greedy to do this.
Or the working class that support this war agains them. I believe Jesse Jackson called them turkeys celebrating their own thanksgiving

God/ess protect us all

Its all about greed

Ground zero Wisconsin. Walker just admitted his "budget" is really an attempt to bust public sector unions. And if it works here, it is going to happen nationwide.

And the good citizens in this country are divided. Not the 2% or so who union busting will help against the rest, but like an even split.
Its because they have been brainwashed to believe that their financial woes are not because of Wall St, tax cuts for the wealthy, corporations sending jobs overseas.

No, they have been somehow convinced that their enemy is their neighbor. The teacher, the elderly, the fireman, the poor children, anyone who would require a payment either for services provided, money they contributed, promises made, from a government.

And they have been convinced government is bad. Government is bad only for those top 2% who are laughing about the rigged elections, the Supreme Court Justice bribed to do Citizens United to this nation, the mass stupidity of the people who are so scared and so burned out financially and emotionally they are willing to put on silly hats and point a finger at their neighbors who are fighting for everyone's future.

I do not understand the greed. So many homeless, hungry, sick and unable to get medical care, and those who are not are scared spitless that they could be next. How do you do that to a nation and happily take your tax cut and buy another yacht? Is it because you bought your church and paid the clergy to tell you that it is okay? Or do you truly believe that you deserve the lions share of everything and the rest deserve suffering? Are you godlike that you can make so many so unhappy? Have your people think up a response (and I am sure you can buy a good one)

For the rest of us we have to stick together. Union won rights are on the line again. Freedom and democracy have to be fought for constantly. Like our friends in the Middle East who hopefully will all win their battles, we can longer sit in apathy as rights and money disappear. All the time we have to defend what we have. Because the greedy are out there and they have no heart