Cough Drops For The Soul
The score currently stands at Allergies: 5, ms_xeno: 0. I can't afford to go hit up my doctor for more generic antihistamines at the moment. On the bright side, I still have some prescription Sudafed [tm] left. Unfortunately, it's not the thing to take when the twin hellbeasts of Barbed-wire-throat and ZOMFG-what's-this-ten-ton-weight-lodged-a-foot-North-of-my-right-nostril wake you up at 4 AM and you can't get back to sleep. I considered employing vodka for this purpose, then thought better of it. Red eyes kind of ruin the overall effect when you're in Outer Suburbia at 9:30 AM for another stirring round of "Screw A Total Stranger Out of Their Remaining Cash For 9.00 an hour? No benefits!? Why, I'd love to!"
Anyway, this at least is turning out to be a good day to clean out my sundry mailboxes. Thanks, riseup dot net.
"...Workers need a fighting party of their own. In addition to mishandling the budget crisis, Democratic legislative leaders have used their power to block almost every piece of legislation supported by labor and to advance all sorts of anti-union legislation, including privatizing child welfare services.
If there are any Democrats out there with a conscience and a sense of accountability--and I know there are, particularly amongst the ranks of labor--they need to mobilize to challenge the actions of this politically bankrupt leadership.
Rank-and-file Democratic Party legislators, instead of following in lock step, voting overwhelmingly for one bad bill after another, should be walking out of the party in protest, in my opinion. They should keep on walking and break with the party, controlled by political opportunists whose true loyalties are for sale to the highest bidder, and help to form a Labor Party that can withstand the lure of corporate corruption.
In the last 30 years, I have attended dozens of labor conventions as a member of Washington Federation of State Employees. Over and over again unionists have endorsed the idea of calling for a workers' party and have passed resolutions calling on the AFL-CIO to do just that. State Labor Council leaders often met my arguments for independent political action with the retort that "the Democratic Party is Labor's party." There is just one problem with that: the Democrats have divided loyalties and business has the upper hand when it comes to buying candidates and elected officials.
-- Fred Hyde, UnionBook, 4/1/09.
Anyway, this at least is turning out to be a good day to clean out my sundry mailboxes. Thanks, riseup dot net.
"...Workers need a fighting party of their own. In addition to mishandling the budget crisis, Democratic legislative leaders have used their power to block almost every piece of legislation supported by labor and to advance all sorts of anti-union legislation, including privatizing child welfare services.
If there are any Democrats out there with a conscience and a sense of accountability--and I know there are, particularly amongst the ranks of labor--they need to mobilize to challenge the actions of this politically bankrupt leadership.
Rank-and-file Democratic Party legislators, instead of following in lock step, voting overwhelmingly for one bad bill after another, should be walking out of the party in protest, in my opinion. They should keep on walking and break with the party, controlled by political opportunists whose true loyalties are for sale to the highest bidder, and help to form a Labor Party that can withstand the lure of corporate corruption.
In the last 30 years, I have attended dozens of labor conventions as a member of Washington Federation of State Employees. Over and over again unionists have endorsed the idea of calling for a workers' party and have passed resolutions calling on the AFL-CIO to do just that. State Labor Council leaders often met my arguments for independent political action with the retort that "the Democratic Party is Labor's party." There is just one problem with that: the Democrats have divided loyalties and business has the upper hand when it comes to buying candidates and elected officials.
-- Fred Hyde, UnionBook, 4/1/09.