Kos's Abbreviated pundit round-up: The war on workers doesn't stop to catch its breath on Labor Day
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/03/1127134/-Abbreviated-pundit-round-up-The-war-on-workers-doesn-t-stop-to-catch-its-breath-on-Labor-Day
Some very good arguments, rebuttals and one-liners....
Wilma B. Liebman, former chair of the National Labor Relations Board writes: The battle against the NLRB is part of a coordinated strategy to weaken organized labor because of its financial support for Democratic candidates and its ability to rally voters.
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Harold Meyerson picks apart claims that the key reason for workers' current situation is a lack of skills and education: The primary plight of U.S. workers isn’t their lack of skills. It’s their lack of power. With the collapse of unions, which represented a third of the private-sector workforce in the mid-20th century but just 7 percent today, workers simply have no capacity to bargain for their share of the revenue they produce.
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Bill Moyers and Bernard A. Weisberger: We are nearing the culmination of a cunning and fanatical drive to dismantle the political institutions, the legal and statutory canons, and the intellectual and cultural frameworks that were slowly and painstakingly built over decades to protect everyday citizens from the excesses of private power. The “city on the hill” has become a fortress of privilege, guarded by a hired political class and safely separated from the economic pressures that are upending the household stability, family dynamics, social mobility, and civic life of everyday Americans.
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Paul Krugman, as usual, goes to the essence of the situation: Obviously nobody cares how fast Mr. Ryan can run, and even his strange marathon misstatement wouldn’t be worth talking about in isolation. What makes this incident so striking is, instead, the way it resonates with the essential Rosie-Ruizness of Mr. Ryan’s whole political persona, which is built around big boasts about accomplishments he hasn’t accomplished.