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passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
8. And Scott Walker proudly boasts of this
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 05:10 PM
Jul 2015

"the 1%'s figured out – at least temporarily – how to scrape all the excess value we've created during the last several decades. They did this through regressive tax changes; the vitiation of labor laws; "free trade" agreements that ensured a race to the bottom w.r.t. wages, work conditions, and environmental protections"

As if his constituents are behind him on this. Why do they keep voting for him, when it's so obvious he wants to reduce their standard of living. I will never understand this.

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