Wall Street Attacks Your Garbage Collector

The wealthy right wing have always liked to pick on the working class. And now Wall Street wants to blame Main Street for the financial crisis our country is in. Big bankers taking home large bonuses are blaming the childcare workers and parking-meter collectors in this country, saying that their jobs are the reason we're in a recession.

If you stop to actually look at the people and jobs Wall Street is attacking, you realize that we need to stop the lies. Public-service workers make little money and do the hard jobs necessary to keep our country running.

In 2009, public service worker Joe Wisniowski made $40,000 as an Airport Equipment Operator for an Ohio airport. Meanwhile Wall Street raked in $20.3 BILLION in bonuses during the same year.

As Robert Bonds, a parking meter collections assistant in Detroit, puts it: "What is this teaching my son? You can work hard, go to college to get your degree, and it's all out of your hands; your success is based on somebody sitting in an office somewhere on Wall Street... that's not what I want him to believe."

Public-service workers are coming under attack like never before. Wall Street has the money, the power and the media mouthpiece to spread lies about those who serve our country in necessary jobs. We can't let Wall Street destroy the backbone of America. Join with us to defend public service workers.

 

 

 

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Comments

[Suane]

04:26 PM on 01/07/2011

I want who ever can to get this message to Rep. Darrell Issa why don't he do an investigation of the former President Bush and the 60 billion dollars that he gave Paul Bremmer to take over to Iraq without even one receipt before he goes around subpoenaing everybody in the Obama administration for giving money to Afghanistan. Not only should Mr. Issa Stop all of this meaningless investigation of the current administration but why not investigate wall street and there deceptive practices and to find out where the job are.


Suane

[llyd wlsh]

07:26 PM on 01/06/2011

let's see....our tax monies pay public employees.....reps. and sens. get paid with our tax monies.....reps. and sens. must be public employees. the biggest differences between 'public' employees and reps and sens. are that 'public' employees [police, teachers, garbage collectors. dmv, etc] actually DO something to earn their paychecks, rather than do nothing other than collecting their paycheck like many repu6e reps and sens. and they can't vote themselves raises like reps. and sens. do.

[politicky]

06:03 PM on 01/06/2011

You mean the same banksters who sold the parking meter revenues in Chicago to a bunch of oil sheiks in Abu Dhabi who needed a place to grow their oil money?

[loki]

05:20 PM on 01/06/2011

a great example of what this is leading to , is Argentina. Their gov laid off millions, then privatized it all. And look at them now.. That will be us in 10 years.

[HekmagaJuximakLives]

05:20 PM on 01/06/2011

It's good to teach your children that the people who make the most money, who run the country and your lives, and whose collective right pinkies are worth more than the entire population of California, reside on Wall Street. That way, when your children are all growed up, there may not BE a Wall Street to assail.

[american-dolt]

04:39 PM on 01/06/2011

If the Terror threat were "Real" they would have taken out Wall Street long ago.

[loki]

05:21 PM on 01/06/2011

wall street probably helped create the "terror" fear threats as a way to control the masses.

[drewrichards]

04:34 PM on 01/06/2011

This is no surprise to me...

http://drewrichards2000.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/05/5774108-an-angry-republican-speaks-out

[alumcreek]

04:26 PM on 01/06/2011

Now you know that the bankers earned every cent of that money by the sweat of their brows. They worked at least 30 hours each day and 9 days each week to make all those billions. None of that money was skimmed off the work of others, not a single million.

[Davest]

04:25 PM on 01/06/2011

Get the pitchforks and the torches ready, this needs to stop.

[cabot]

04:24 PM on 01/06/2011

Perfect example of the unattainable American dream. While millions suffer, there same relatives vote against their own self-interest for the ever evading chance of being one of 5 in 300,000,000, and the nightmare continues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When will these deluded fools ever learn!

[Joe Adamski]

03:56 PM on 01/06/2011

Divide that $20.3B in bonuses between the 308,745,000 counted in the 2010 census, it comes to approx $65 per person. So less than .001 people colllect bonuses that were essentially paid for by the citizenry in one form or another.
That there isn't a backlash surprises me, except everyone is scrambling for their next meal, they don't have time to dwell on the injustice.

[flashpants]

03:42 PM on 01/06/2011

I hope the teamsters block every street in Manhatten and Washington D.C. I know here in the Chicago area, those guys earn every red cent. God bless em and keep on truckin.

[halfassedfilms]

03:51 PM on 01/06/2011

On the low budget films I work on the teamsters get paid more then the talent (in some cases, household names) for doing little more then showing up and playing cards.

I'm all for organized labor, but the teamsters don't care about anyone but themselves. they don't have a drop of solidarity for other unions and make no effort to help bring rates up for anyone else in the business.

[llyd wlsh]

07:30 PM on 01/06/2011

don't go off halfassed/films

[ArtLevine]

03:40 PM on 01/06/2011

Labor writers addressed this issue on Democracy Now! today and I quoted activists in In These Times:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6813/will_the_new_assaults_on_public_employee_unions_undermine_all_workers/

All progressives should share and promote Greenwald's new videos about the attacks on public employee unions.

[rebar10issguy]

03:40 PM on 01/06/2011

union mebers generally support and vote for democrats, so if the gop can bust all the unions, dems lose a very large voting bloc. that's what the gop is hoping and striving for.
and when the unions are gone, us working stiffs will have no protection from our bosses! 40 hour work weeks and vacations? stick a fork in those 2 concepts! reduced wages and increased hours for all workers will be the new rules.
thanks, my fellow americans, for allowing these gop/tea baggers to have power. you wonder why us progressives dislike you?

[Davest]

04:26 PM on 01/06/2011

Not the guys I work with, they come to work regurgitating whatever drivel they heard the night before on fox news, and attack liberals as the enemy.

I can't understand why they keep thinking the Republicans care about them at all?

[maveet]

04:58 PM on 01/06/2011

You've got a real way with words, rebar. F&F

[Merc51]

03:23 PM on 01/06/2011

The public sector is being scapegoated. Yes, there is graft and abuse in the public sector, but there always has been and there are always opportunities for investigations and corrections. The core problem is having the general population fund the excesses (read bailouts and tax breaks) of the wealthy ruling class. If not for the bubble and burst economic crisis, the deficits were manageable and the public sector was fine.