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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 04:07 PM Jun 2015

ALEC Trying To Slash Your Paycheck

Prevailing wage laws are one of the only pieces of legislation that help keep contractor pay on par with state wage laws. But these laws are under attack because corporations want to pay their workers as little as possible, further driving wage earners into poverty.

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ALEC Trying To Slash Your Paycheck (Original Post) GoLeft TV Jun 2015 OP
ALEC/Koch Bros hate you and want to either kill you or make you so poor life is hardly randys1 Jun 2015 #1
At every Town Hall meeting, the question, "Are you a member of ALEC?", should be ask DhhD Jun 2015 #2
That should be the question..................... turbinetree Jun 2015 #3
OS says Omaha Steve Jun 2015 #4
waiting...probably in vain... dhill926 Jun 2015 #5

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. ALEC/Koch Bros hate you and want to either kill you or make you so poor life is hardly
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 04:13 PM
Jun 2015

worth living.

We do nothing at our peril.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
2. At every Town Hall meeting, the question, "Are you a member of ALEC?", should be ask
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 04:58 PM
Jun 2015

of the GOP candidate running for office.

http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
Contains this video from Moyers and Company:

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
3. That should be the question.....................
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 05:22 PM
Jun 2015

You are absolutely correct, every town hall, city council, school board, every meeting------------and then with a follow-up question are you a crook, I didn't authorize you to go to these behind the door lobbyists meetings-----------what else have you been doing to our democracy behind our backs---------we want some answers.

dhill926

(16,364 posts)
5. waiting...probably in vain...
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 05:55 PM
Jun 2015

for the Democratic Party to put out a unified, coherent, easily understandable and sustained attack against this shit.

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