Labor & Employment Law

Vote Nov. 2. Don?t Let Corporate Investment in GOP Pay Off

By Mike Hall

Throughout this election season, we?ve chronicled here, here, here and elsewhere, the flood of secret corporate cash aimed at buying the U.S. House and Senate for Republicans.

What is it about the Republican candidates and policies that makes these tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions such an attractive investment?

Well, how about that tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas that Republicans support or their call to revive the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires?

Maybe it is the chance for the Big Banks and financial firms to get their hands on hundreds of billions of dollars if Social Security is privatized. Don?t forget Republican pledges to roll back Wall Street reform, and for the insurance industry, repeal health care reform.

How much is Big Business willing to pay to roll back the labor laws and workplace safety rules as Republicans promise? Apparently a whole lot.

But as President Obama says in this video from They Win?U Lose:

We?ve got to fight their millions of dollars with millions of our voices….We cannot sit this one out. We can?t let this country fall backwards, because the rest of us didn?t care enough to fight.

We?ve got to make those voices heard and our votes count Nov. 2.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).