Cheap Labor Conservatives

Avedon digs up a really old link from my old pals at Guerrilla News Network. This is a meme just waiting to be resurrected. Cheap labor conservatives is a brilliant tag for the dead-enders still plugging tax breaks for the wealthy and the corporate as the panacea for all economic ills. In truth it's just a trick to keep us all working for the lowest wage possible while the owners of Bush's "ownership society" reap all the rewards. Here's just a short clip from a long post to tempt you over.

The ugly truth is that cheap-labor conservatives just don’t like working people. They don’t like “bottom up” prosperity, and the reason for it is very simple. Lords have a harder time kicking them around. Once you understand this about the cheap-labor conservatives, the real motivation for their policies makes perfect sense. Remember, cheap-labor conservatives believe in social hierarchy and privilege, so the only prosperity they want is limited to them. They want to see absolutely nothing that benefits the guy – or more often the woman – who works for an hourly wage. [...]

So there you have it, in one easy-to-remember phrase. See how easy it is to understand these cheap-labor conservatives. The more ignorant and destitute people there are – desperate for any job they can get – the cheaper the cheap-labor conservatives can get them to work.

The cheap labor conservative's plan is as old as feudal system but I can't think of a better time to make the label stick than in the current economic climate. I'm going to start using it. Maybe I'll use anti-labor conservatives once in a while too, just for variety.

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