{"id":2830,"date":"2011-02-27T19:26:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T00:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2011-02-27T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T00:28:31","slug":"thank-you-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/thank-you-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in Wisconsin it’s day 14 of the protests at the Capitol. Half the time I feel like this is too big to be ignored – there were probably 100,000 of us yesterday<\/a>, marching in the snow – to my eyes, absolutely more than last week’s 70,000. But on the Sunday talk shows, Gov. Weasel Walker said<\/p>\n

two weeks of protests in the state capital hadn’t swayed his resolve to eliminate most collective bargaining rights for most public employees.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last week, I was thinking that the stuff I was reading in the straight press<\/a> was starting to sound like the Onion. But today, there’s a NYT Op Ed by Frank Ri<\/a>ch, that lays out the Republican conspiracy in no uncertain terms. It is so NOT about the money – or at least it not about the negligible amount of money that would be saved with Walker’s so-called budget repair bill. This whole thing is about making the rich richer, and deregulating and privatizing everything.<\/p>\n

I have to believe it has to be at least in part because so much of this is getting outed on facebook – there were only about 12 of us in the whole country who read the article in the New Yorker about the Koch brothers<\/a> – probably I should post it to my profile, right now.<\/p>\n

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