People Like Us…

I get quite annoyed about the portrayal of unions as special interest groups when we represent ordinary people and really, isn’t business the ultimate special interest group? Yet in our discourse, it’s turned around. Groups that represent the majority of the citizens and who want to build the country are labelled as left wing nuts while businesses who act purely in their own self interest with a short sighted market and “analysts” expectations dictate how we govern ourselves. Isn’t that backward? Shouldn’t businesses and the economy serve us?

And I have a whole rant about analysts who know little about actual industry and nothing of the regulatory regimes who are happy to spout their right wing viewpoint of the financial markets in ignorance of reality while dismissing anyone who dares to disagree.

I enjoyed this article from John Cheese on “Occupy” and here is another CEP Organizing video.

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