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Phil Neuenfeld, president of Wisconsin AFL-CIO:
This deeply flawed legislation amounts to capitulation to a reckless group of ideologues willing to sacrifice America's credibility to advance their extreme political agenda. The resulting cuts will inflict needless pain on already overburdened working families, while rewarding the super-rich with irresponsible and unpatriotic tax breaks.
This bad deal will derail economic recovery, further undermining the middle class.
History shows we cannot cut our way to prosperity. Contrary to Republican rhetoric, we are facing an employment crisis, not a debt crisis. The United States' government needs to put people first by investing in local communities and jobs. Slashing programmes that are helping working families stay afloat, while refusing to hold hedge fund managers and other billionaires responsible for paying their fair share, is bad policy. Asking hardworking, middle-class Americans to pay the bill for Wall Street's mistakes is simply unjust.
In Wisconsin, this same blind ideology is driving Governor Scott Walker to use similarly extreme and aggressive tactics to strip workers of their fundamental union rights, while Tea Party candidates like Kim Simac, incredibly, compare public schools to Nazi indoctrination camps. It's time to stop this war on American values and expose these extremists as the dangerous zealots they are.
This deeply flawed legislation amounts to capitulation to a reckless group of ideologues willing to sacrifice America's credibility to advance their extreme political agenda. The resulting cuts will inflict needless pain on already overburdened working families, while rewarding the super-rich with irresponsible and unpatriotic tax breaks.
This bad deal will derail economic recovery, further undermining the middle class.
History shows we cannot cut our way to prosperity. Contrary to Republican rhetoric, we are facing an employment crisis, not a debt crisis. The United States' government needs to put people first by investing in local communities and jobs. Slashing programmes that are helping working families stay afloat, while refusing to hold hedge fund managers and other billionaires responsible for paying their fair share, is bad policy. Asking hardworking, middle-class Americans to pay the bill for Wall Street's mistakes is simply unjust.
In Wisconsin, this same blind ideology is driving Governor Scott Walker to use similarly extreme and aggressive tactics to strip workers of their fundamental union rights, while Tea Party candidates like Kim Simac, incredibly, compare public schools to Nazi indoctrination camps. It's time to stop this war on American values and expose these extremists as the dangerous zealots they are.
