Corporate Execs should try bake sales and parents should earn a living wage.
Blue Cross CEO got $8.6 m in exit deal (quoted from the font page Boston Globe 3/2/2011). He bargained for our tax dollars that subsidize health costs through Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers.
Yet the Republicans in Wisconsin want to refuse the right of Union workers, many of whom are parents, to bargain for a living wage so that they may support their children. Should we put them into the ever-expanding stream of people who are turning to the government for help to pay for special needs resulting from learning disabilities, poor health care and poor nutrition.
Who will suffer the most when gambling fails in our financial markets? Not our corporate execs with money to support their children for generations to come, but most of the children of our workers who pay a fair tax, of course.
There is already a bill to cut care for children aged 1 to 3, preschool places for 3 to 5 year olds, and less all-day kindergarten. There is less money to improve our failing public high schools. They will be stressed with fewer teachers, larger classes and older textbooks. Our children’s health will suffer and many more will be hungry and homeless.
Are corporate executives “pulling in their belts”?. I don’t see a flicker of their concern for joblessness, or the health and welfare of our ordinary citizens, our families, or our children. I haven’t heard a single executive thank the public for the tax money they got from us to bail them out causing a debt that will now cause cuts in essential programs for low and moderate income families.
If parents, the best advocates for children, are to be effective they need collective bargaining. Should they not have that, no thought will be given to our nation’s children. Yes, it is moral act and an act of faith to support collective bargaining for union workers, and fair wages for our families who are supporting many dependents,
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