Greed, Menard, and Eau Claire

Walmart recently decided the $14.5 BILLION they make every year isn't enough so they have cut employee health care (of course Wisconsin employees are encouraged to apply for Badger Care so taxpayers can pay for it) and increased the employee contribution from 17% to 61%.

But Wisconsin has it's own "Walmart" . . . Menard's. His pay scale is about the same as Walmart (averaging $8.80 an hour) and if the republicans manage to get rid of the minimum wage, Wisconsin workers' "real world" well get a whole lot worse and John Menard's "real world" will get BILLIONS better.  The Recall effort on walker and moulton is as much about what will happen to private sector workers here as to what is happening to public sector workers.  All you "real world" advocates need to be prepared for what these guys (Menard, walker, moulton, et al.) want  to do to "real world" workers.  They think you make too much and that you should have no say in what you make.  They think Wisconsin workers make too much.  Remember, if it were up to them, there would be no weekends off for workers; no 40 hour work weeks with overtime pay and benefits.  NO double time on holidays or vacation days or holidays.  Before labor laws, we worked on Christmas and they could hire children because they cost less.

And now John Menard has dropped a bundle to get those "real world" days of the 1880's back.  John Menard's $1,000,000 contribution to the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity aimed at keeping gov. walker[sic] in place, is intended to do just that:  get rid of any worker rights or protections.  Greedy men like Menard are always trying to do that because they believe they are "entitiled" to what ever they want.  He will let the public pay for access to his stores (roads and other infrastructure), pay to protect him and his stores from bad guys and fight fires that may occur there, but will fight tooth and nail to keep from paying the taxes necessary to build that infrastructure.  Or pay the men and women who build and maintain it a living wage.

It's nice to have a governor of your own.

It's funny how this all boils down to one thing . . . greed.  John Menard and others like him (even people who work for him) believe they should have all of the money and get to do what ever they want and that you should only get a little bit 'cause you're just a worker.  Of course we all know that the "real world" can change.  And we know that because we as workers have been getting poorer and poorer over the last 30 years.  That means we could figure out ways to get all that money back into the hands of the workers to even things out again.  Yeah . . . let's do that.

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