Union attacks not comic

S-R cartoons: Feb. 25, a GOP boxer blackened the eyes of Planned Parenthood, NPR and unions, leaving “Wall Street” fat and happy. Feb. 28, the fatso is unions: “It’s the organized bullies you gotta worry about.”

Workers struggled for the right to bargain as a group because as individuals they were helpless. They won for us the 40-hour workweek, safety rules and weekends!

Now, with America’s top 1 percent amassing growing wealth, the rest of us hurting, the unions are demonized as greedy. Wall Street fund managers “earn” billion-dollar salaries. Whose fraudulent securities got us into this economic mess? And multibillionaire Koch brothers spend vast sums to support right-wing, union-bashing politicians, fronting supposed democracy groups like Citizens United, which last year won the “right” for corporations as “persons” to pour unlimited amounts into increasingly costly elections.

One Koch beneficiary is Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. But tens of thousands of workers, small-business people and students have rallied to support the unions Walker would bust. Demonstrations are erupting around the country, supporting unions, and protesting large corporations, like Bank of America, GE and ExxonMobil, who pay no U.S. taxes.

Who are the bullies?

Jean Maryborn

Sandpoint