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November 19, 2006
Houston Declares War on the Working Poor
I've been following the Janitor's strike in Houston for the last week or so and I have to say you can tell when the Republican party runs things. First the quick version of the story, Janitors making 20 dollars a day after taxes strike against Chevron and several other big corporate giants that own the Republican party in America. The Houston police decide to use extreme force to break up the protests to send a message to the workers that this is GOP country.
Now the GOP has moved in with their next attack on the workers. After arresting them for peacefully protesting, they set the bond for them to get out of jail to 888,888 dollars. Just to give you prospective on how GOP justice works take a look at this, for a woman charged with beating her granddaughter to death with a sledgehammer, bail was set at $100,000. Obviously everyone can see how suggesting an industry making in the billions of profit every quarter shouldn't have to give a pay increase to the guys that clean their offices makes perfect sense to them. Nothing raises GOP hate more than the notion of Americans getting paid a living wage. I think Lou Dobbs summed it up the other week. George Bush is always saying that illegal immigrates come to America to do jobs that Americans wouldn't do, but the end of the sentence is always left off, which is for slave wages. These are Americans working for slave wages and the GOP is screaming for blood, because they don't think they should have to right to be able to feed their families. This is the modern Republican party at it's finest folks.
Read more over at MyDD and for important abou the strike from the workers themselves SEIU.
Posted by Jamison at November 19, 2006 8:03 AM
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Talk about excessive use of force! There was absolutely no reason to trample this man with a horse!!
Posted by: Dianne at November 19, 2006 2:03 PM