Political Quotes

“Today in the State of Ohio, the State of Wisconsin and the State of Indiana there are epic struggles underway where those who serve the public, who teach our children, who police our streets, who fight the fires and who perform a myriad of services at a State, county and municipal level, are under attack. Their wages are under attack and their benefits, pensions and working conditions are under attack. And these public workers are being made the scapegoats in all of the budget challenges which States face. They are now blaming the workers. Our whole economy has been turned into a somewhat efficient engine that takes the wealth of the American people and accelerates the wealth to the top. That, after all, is what our tax system is about. That's what Wall Street is about. That's what banking is about. That's what our energy policy is about, taking the wealth of millions and giving it to a few oil companies. If you examine every area of our economy, you'll see that we're at a time in the history of America where the rich truly are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is getting destroyed. Enter public workers, people who have dedicated their lives to public service, people who are truly public servants in the truest sense of the word, people who were told that if they agreed to public service that they would have certain guarantees. And so they dedicated their lives.…”