...essentially a 4-3 decision, the high court overturned a lower court, (click title to entry - thank you) which had ruled Republican lawmakers violated the state's open meetings law when they passed the measure in March.
"Access was not denied," the Supreme Court declared in Tuesday's decision. "There is no constitutional requirement that the legislature provide access to as many members of the public as wish to attend meetings of the legislature or meetings of legislative committees."
But Tuesday' 68-page decision was a thicket of concurrences and dissents, reflecting the sharp divide the measure has created in the state itself....
But, there is a larger picture if one can believe that and I would like to paint it here.
Many people believe all this extremism is an anomoly in the USA because of the "Great Recession." That is a factor, but, the events of 2010 were far more pre-meditated than that.
I am going back to 1990 thorugh 1992 in a meeting at Johnson & Johnson in Raritan, New Jersey of employees and a Vice President by the name of Mr. Cincotta (that spelling may not be exactly correct, but, more phonetically - SIN-COAT-TA).
The option of enrolling in the new 401K was being introduced to the employees in several meetings whereby departments were assembled in an auditorium on site.
The Vice President in his presentation stated, "I strongly encourage all our employees to join J&J in this opportunity to build a retirement fund. In twenty years, the Medicare Program we all know today will no longer exist and will be replaced with a 'voucher program' that will only contribute to your retirement health insurance. Additional monies by employees will be needed to assist in carrying that burden.
This is a true story. What has that got to with Wisconsin? This is Medicare and not union rights.
That true story illustrates clearly how Wall Street has an agenda for the activities within the USA's populous that provides for their profit margins. I guarantee you, somewhere in someone's files there exists information regarding the wide spread activities of Representative Governors and legislatures in the year 2010. This radicalism only seems radical because somewhere along the way it was derailed and those conversations with the American people never took place. What occurred was enlightenment to the agenda of Wall Street in dominating the American reality and how easily 'the peasants' could be controlled and kep in abeyance.
I don't lie about these things. There is far too much as stake and it involves the country, its citizens, our children's futures and the well being of our democracy. This stuff is real. It is not going away unless we all make it go away. Wall Street is not the government and the government is not Wall Street. Wall Street is a private entity and needs to be monitored and regulated to control 'the fallout' to the citizens of the USA. For over a decade the Republicans have deregulated and deregulated and pushed the economic structure into failure, this is just the next step in an agenda that began a long time ago.
Why would a J&J Vice President tell an entire community of employees signing up for the first time to their 401Ks that Medicare would become a voucher program in twenty years unless it was being excecuted as he spoke. Think about it. Why would Wall Street reach out to average citizens to enroll in building a retirement fund through risky investments unless they had plans. The monies people were saving or investing in their homes are all 'money reserves' and they can be expoited if 'people buy in to them.'
The attack on public sector unions is 'just the next step' for the Right Wing Republicans. They have an agenda. It is real.
We are the ones that have to stop this and there is no looking back. I promise you that.
