Unions follow tea party lead

According to Gary Crooks’ Sunday column, the top richest 1 percent (i.e., one percenters) take in 20 percent of total income. And now they’ve been awarded their tax cuts it looks like once again the middle class will get shafted, thanks to the Koch brothers/tea party. (Current investigation reveals they are behind the politics to destroy collective bargaining and the unions.)

Did anyone who voted for the Republican governors demand to know how they planned to create jobs for “The American People”? Without unions, governors will find new ways to “create jobs.” Without union protection the one percenters and their corporations will have total control over health/sick leave benefits (if you get any), and wage pay scale.

Since Republican governors are now demanding the “American people” give up their right to work and their unions, ask the one percenters what part of their income will they sacrifice? Because union lifelines throughout the country are threatened with extinction, Democratic politicians need to help unions fight for their members’ rights, and union members need to continue ongoing protests. After all, it’s the tea party who showed us, it’s the American way.

Bev Elmore

Spokane