Only Those with Full Civil Rights Can Afford to Ignore Civil Rights
Those who don't have the same equal rights as those with privilege can't ignore that. Those rights also impact the ability to work, the chance to see all children as well educated as those with privilege, and the freedom to fully enjoy our society. If you can't vote, for example, you are forced to take what you get, politically. If you can't marry, you can't enjoy the benefits of marriage fully. If you can be paid less than someone else who does the same work at the same place, you are unequal.
Those of us, like me, born with the privilege of being white, male, straight and blessed with a university education have privilege that is unattainable by a vast number of people. It's easy for us to forget the importance of social justice and full access to the rights of this society. It's important, even crucial, that we do not lose sight of that due to our own privilege.
It is not a matter of whether economic justice or social justice is more important. Both are equally important, and have an enormous impact on each other. We need to focus on both, not just one. We need to make sure every U.S. Citizen has precisely the same basket of rights and can freely enjoy them. Unless we do that, our privilege is getting in the way of our judgment.
Nobody can call him or herself a progressive without a recognition that civil justice and economic justice are of equal importance, in my opinion. Both are essential in a nation like ours. Neither are in place. That's what we should all be working toward. We shouldn't be fighting against each other over these priorities. They are both equal in priority.
On March 25, 2015, former editor of the Waukesha Freeman and conservative Pete Kennedy published an opinion piece in the paper urging Wisconsin conservatives to not only reject Scott Walker, but to hold him accountable for the damage he has done to the state.
cantstandusKennedy is not the only Wisconsin Republican abandoning Scott Walker. Recently extremists in the party, including Rep. Robin Vos (R-63) and Sen. Tom Tiffany (R-12), began questioning Walker’s latest budget, which drastically cuts money for public education, eliminates essential programs for the disabled and elderly that allow them to stay in their homes, increases bonding for transportation and roads, and slashes $300 million from the UW System.
Even Walker’s staunch defender Wisconsin Reporter is remaining silent about recent information that has emerged about Walker’s alleged $1.5 million pay-to-play scheme involving Menards’ president John Menard Jr.
Kennedy’s piece vividly describes how Walker has indeed betrayed even his loyal extremists. Kennedy appears to understand that Walker has been lying to them (and the rest of the state) all along. “Given recent events, I’m not convinced he ever really loved you,” he opines, “but if believing so makes you feel better, then by all means do so.”
At least Billary learned from Bill's mistake. She wiped the the server clean...he should have wiped the blue dress clean.
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Sun 29 Mar, 2015 09:08 pm
@bobsal u1553115,
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About Us
Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative is a group of citizen journalists who began covering the Wisconsin Uprising in February, 2011. We came from different walks of life, different professional backgrounds and different parts of the state to document the dismantling of democratic process and tradition taking place in our state under the rightwing onslaught of the Scott Walker regime
That is Bobs source. How reliable is anything they say about Walker?
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We hope to build the coop into a radically democratic media organization that reflects the needs of our community for information and that can serve as a model of grassroots news gathering for people in other parts of the country. In order to do this sustainably for the long-term, we need material, moral and community support.
They want an organization to spew propaganda. Why should they be any different from the lying progressives they support?
Hey dipstick, neither illiteracy nor blindness is a reason to keep anyone from voting. The Supreme Court says so. Why do you hate he Bill of rights and the Constitution?????
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Sun 29 Mar, 2015 09:22 pm
Fiorina's Presidential Plan To Save The Economy: Stop Lazy Workers From 'Watching Porn All Day Long'
3/29/15 9:18am
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Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who is expected to announce a campaign for president, said over the weekend that she could improve the economy by cutting federal worker pay because they were "watching porn all day long."
In a Sunday interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace, Fiorina said that there was a "higher than 90 percent" chance that she would become a Republican presidential candidate.
The former HP CEO explained that she would make a formidable candidate "because I understand technology: a transformational tool, because I understand bureaucracies, how they work and how you need to change them. And our government is a huge bureaucracy."
According to Fiorina, the United States was "destroying more businesses than we are creating" for the first time in U.S. history under President Barack Obama's administration.
"Washington, D.C. has become a vast and unaccountable bureaucracy. It's been growing for 40 years," she opined. "We have no idea how our money is spent."
Fiorina said that she had two prong plan for boosting the economy by reforming the federal government.
"One, zero-based budgeting so we actually know where money is being spent, and we're talking about the whole budget and not just the rate of increase," she remarked. "And two, pay for performance in our civil service."
"We have -- how many Inspector General reports do we need to read that say, you know, you can watch porn all day long and get paid exactly the same way as somebody who's trying to do their job?"
Carly Fiorina
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Carly Fiorina (born Cara Carleton Sneed; September 6, 1954) is an American former business executive and was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate from California in 2010. Fiorina served as chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 and previously was an executive at AT&T and its equipment and technology spinoff, Lucent.
Fiorina was considered one of the most powerful women in business during her tenure at Lucent and Hewlett-Packard. While she was chief executive at HP, the company weathered the collapse of the dot-com bubble, although the stock lost half of its value throughout her tenure.[1] In 2002, the company completed a contentious merger with rival computer company Compaq, which made HP the world's largest personal computer manufacturer.[2] In 2005, Fiorina was forced to resign as chief executive officer and chair of HP following "differences [with the board of directors] about how to execute HP's strategy."[3] She has frequently been ranked as one of the worst tech CEOs of all time.
Fiorina proceeded to reorganize HP, and merge the part she kept with the PC maker Compaq. Although the decision to spin off the company's technical equipment division predated her arrival, one of her first major responsibilities as chief executive was overseeing the separation of the unit into the standalone Agilent Technologies. Fiorina proposed the acquisition of the technology services arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers for almost $14 billion but withdrew the bid after a lackluster reception from Wall Street. Following the collapse of the dot-com bubble, the PwC consulting arm was acquired by IBM for less than $4 billion.[30] In 2001, Fiorina was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America by Forbes magazine.[31] In early September 2001, in the wake of the bursting of the Tech Bubble, Fiorina announced the controversial merger with Compaq, a leading competitor in the industry. Fiorina fought for the merger, and it was implemented despite strong opposition from board member Walter Hewlett (the son of company co-founder William Hewlett) who claimed that the merger was being pursued by Fiorina in desperation to make a strategic decision and to give her some breathing space from Wall Street.
He launched a proxy fight against Fiorina's efforts, which failed.[32][33] The Compaq merger[34] created the world's largest personal computer manufacturer by units shipped,[35] a position the company lost in 2003 and regained in 2006.[36]
Fiorina presented herself as a realist regarding the effects of globalization. She has been a strong proponent, along with other technology executives, of the expansion of the H-1B visa program.[37] In January 2004, at a meeting to "head off rising protectionist sentiment in Congress," Fiorina said: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs as a nation."[38][39][40] While Fiorina argued that the only way to "protect U.S. high-tech jobs over the long haul was to become more competitive [in the United States]," her comments prompted "strong reactions" from some technology workers who argued that lower wages outside the United States encouraged the offshoring of American jobs.[41] Fiorina responded against protectionism in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, writing that while "America is the most innovative country," it would not remain so if the country were to "run away from the reality of the global economy."[42]
In early January 2005, the Hewlett-Packard board of directors discussed with Fiorina a list of issues that the board had regarding the company's performance.[43] The board proposed a plan to shift her authority to HP division heads, which Fiorina resisted.[44] A week after the meeting, the confidential plan was leaked to the Wall Street Journal.[45] Less than a month later, the board brought back Tom Perkins and forced Fiorina to resign as chair and chief executive officer of the company.[46] The company's stock jumped on news of Fiorina's departure.[47] Under the company's agreement with Fiorina, which was characterized as a golden parachute by Meredith Vieira[48] and TIME magazine[49] and Yahoo![50] she was paid slightly more than $20 million in severance.[51]
Judgments on Fiorina's tenure at HP are mixed. In 2008, Infoworld grouped her with a list of products and ideas as flops, declaring her to be the "anti-Steve Jobs" for reversing the goodwill of American engineers and for alienating existing customers.[52] In 2008, Loren Steffy of The New York Times suggested that the EDS acquisition well after Fiorina's tenure was evidence that her actions as CEO were justified.[53] Fiorina has often been ranked as one of the worst CEOs of all time.[54][55][56][57]
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