THE MASTER PUPPETEERS

An uninformed citizenry is all that’s necessary for a handful of billionaires to mold the thinking of a nation. These successful businessmen understand marketing — and marketing their politics to serve their own interests is an easy step.

Beginning with the Reagan presidency right-wing marketing has promoted the idea that labor unions are bad. Workers banding together to get safer working conditions and living wages is a bad thing. It’s a bad thing because those union negotiations harm the bottom line … and of course, corporate profits are sacrosanct!

The deal struck with the American people was that if voters rewarded corporations with minimal regulations and massive profits safe from even taxes, that the corporations would reward the people with good jobs. They took the profits alright, then shipped the jobs overseas and the jobs that remain in our country are minimum wage jobs that no one can raise a family on.

Let’s be clear here: The public unions in Wisconsin negotiated brand new contracts with the new GOP Governor Walker when he first came to power. The unions gave the new governor everything he asked for. He won in the negotiations. But that was not enough for Governor Walker, because the state’s budget was NOT his goal … no, his goal was to further undermine labor unions for political gain. And, it worked.

The Master Puppeteers came out from behind the curtain only briefly, but it was long enough to see their faces and the smug look on them.

Everything is not as it seems. Uninformed voters are blindly moving to their Master’s Puppeteering!