Há algo na água ou algo no ar. Hoje não ponho aqui as imagens terríveis de um governo líbio estrebuchante, tentando varrer à sua frente os que ainda se lhe opõem com poucos meios.
Para já, apetece-me deixar aqui a crónica de Rachel Maddow. É um pouco longa mas pode ser vista com legendas no site original. Para poupar trabalho, está em baixo uma selecção da transcrição, com alguns destaques (vai sensivelmente até metade do videoclip).
Para já, apetece-me deixar aqui a crónica de Rachel Maddow. É um pouco longa mas pode ser vista com legendas no site original. Para poupar trabalho, está em baixo uma selecção da transcrição, com alguns destaques (vai sensivelmente até metade do videoclip).
É um bom alerta também sobre o ataque às uniões sindicais americanas - mostra como, em nome da crise, as maiores fortunas e os maiores defensores de benefícios para os privados (hospitais e escolas incluídos) continuam a desviar, não há outro termo, desviar dinheiros dos impostos que são retirados a todos para beneficiar alguns.
Qualquer dia a classe média passa mesmo a ser uma expressão do passado.
Qualquer dia a classe média passa mesmo a ser uma expressão do passado.
RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: next hour. This is a special report. We're doing sort of a special show tonight about what is going on in state politics in the United States. We're doing this as a special report, I will admit, in part to try to put a spotlight on this, because the Beltway media really hasn't caught on to what's happening. The Democratic Party's base, particularly in the Midwest, they have figured it out. The media in some parts of the rest of the country I think so far have not figured it out. And so, tonight, we're going to try to connect some of these dots. What you're looking at here is not Wisconsin. This is video from Indianapolis today. Protesters in that traditionally pretty conservative state rallied today under the banner " Hoosiers standing up for the middle class." Thousands of people turned out at the state capitol in Indianapolis today to protest against not only union-stripping measures that Indiana Republicans introduced last month but also efforts by Republicans to shift a massive amount of public school resources into private hands. That's going on in Indiana. Now, this -- this is Wisconsin. This was the scene at the Wisconsin state capitol today. Thousands of people gathered again to protest the biggest rolling back of workers' rights in that state in the state's history. Last night, in the blink of an eye, Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate wiped away most union rights for most of the state's public employees. Today, Republicans in the state assembly did the same over the loud and vocal protests of those who had gathered outside the chamber as well as the Democratic representatives inside the chamber. (...)
Despite the protests both inside and outside the capital, the Republican union-stripping measure in Wisconsin passed today. (...)
These are images today from Boise, Idaho, of all places, where some union rights for teachers were stripped away this week by that state's Republican-led legislature. These are images from Columbus, Ohio, where thousands gathered in protest over the last few weeks against Republican-led efforts there to strip away union rights. These are images from Lansing, Michigan. The state capitol in Lansing reportedly saw its largest protests ever this week against union- stripping measures and dramatic new unilateral powers being claimed by the state's Republican administration. In Michigan, they are expecting their biggest protest yet on Tuesday of next week. Who has called for the Tuesday protest in Lansing? The AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons. That's because part of what Republican Governor Rick Snyder is trying to do in Michigan is a massive transfer of wealth. He and the state's Republicans want to raise $1.7 billion by taxing poor people and old people and also by taxing people who want to make donations to support public schools. From those groups, they're going to extract an extra $1.7 billion. But then they will not be applying that money to fix the state's budget. They will be giving that money away to businesses. A $1.8 billion corporate tax break -- taxing the old and the poor in order to give that money to corporations. A spokesman for the AARP in Michigan telling the " Detroit News" today that seniors are willing to do their share but they don't want to pay for a business tax cut. He accurately called what's going on in Michigan not a cut but rather a shift. And that's exactly right. That's important. What they are doing in Michigan with this particular tax hike will not make that state's budget deficit any better. It just shifts resources from one group of humans, old people and poor people, to corporations. It's just a shift of the resources that the state has control over. As you might imagine, this is not a popular kind of idea. Now, Florida is doing the same kind of shift with their schools. Cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out their K through 12 education not to pay down the state's budget deficit but in order to give that money away to businesses. (...)
Right now, Wisconsin Republicans are being defended with ads nationwide run by Karl Rove's Crossroads group, a group that does not disclose its funders. But what we do know of Crossroads is that their top disclosed funders are corporations and individual billionaires. Crossroads GPS is running ads to support the Wisconsin Republicans and to deride those rich, awful public sector workers who they vaguely but ominously assert are making 42 percent are more than you probably. (...)
These are images today from Boise, Idaho, of all places, where some union rights for teachers were stripped away this week by that state's Republican-led legislature. These are images from Columbus, Ohio, where thousands gathered in protest over the last few weeks against Republican-led efforts there to strip away union rights. These are images from Lansing, Michigan. The state capitol in Lansing reportedly saw its largest protests ever this week against union- stripping measures and dramatic new unilateral powers being claimed by the state's Republican administration. In Michigan, they are expecting their biggest protest yet on Tuesday of next week. Who has called for the Tuesday protest in Lansing? The AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons. That's because part of what Republican Governor Rick Snyder is trying to do in Michigan is a massive transfer of wealth. He and the state's Republicans want to raise $1.7 billion by taxing poor people and old people and also by taxing people who want to make donations to support public schools. From those groups, they're going to extract an extra $1.7 billion. But then they will not be applying that money to fix the state's budget. They will be giving that money away to businesses. A $1.8 billion corporate tax break -- taxing the old and the poor in order to give that money to corporations. A spokesman for the AARP in Michigan telling the " Detroit News" today that seniors are willing to do their share but they don't want to pay for a business tax cut. He accurately called what's going on in Michigan not a cut but rather a shift. And that's exactly right. That's important. What they are doing in Michigan with this particular tax hike will not make that state's budget deficit any better. It just shifts resources from one group of humans, old people and poor people, to corporations. It's just a shift of the resources that the state has control over. As you might imagine, this is not a popular kind of idea. Now, Florida is doing the same kind of shift with their schools. Cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out their K through 12 education not to pay down the state's budget deficit but in order to give that money away to businesses. (...)
Right now, Wisconsin Republicans are being defended with ads nationwide run by Karl Rove's Crossroads group, a group that does not disclose its funders. But what we do know of Crossroads is that their top disclosed funders are corporations and individual billionaires. Crossroads GPS is running ads to support the Wisconsin Republicans and to deride those rich, awful public sector workers who they vaguely but ominously assert are making 42 percent are more than you probably. (...)
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