Although the news media have tried without success to portray the Tea Partiers as racist right-wing agitators, the movement will only continue to gain strength and mainstream support as state and local budget issues come to a boil. All politics is local, as they say, and the battle lines are being drawn in cities and towns across the U.S. for what could eventually turn into a civil war between taxpayers and public employees. Private-sector workers are understandably angered in these very hard times by the unseemly spectacle of government employees fighting to hang onto the outlandish perks and benefits that they’ve » Read the full article
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Civil War Looms Over State and Local Budgets
by Rick Ackerman on June 4, 2010 12:53 am GMT · 57 comments
Although the news media have tried without success to portray the Tea Partiers as racist right-wing agitators, the movement will only continue to gain strength and mainstream support as state and local budget issues come to a boil. All politics is local, as they say, and the battle lines are being drawn in cities and towns across the U.S. for what could eventually turn into a civil war between taxpayers and public employees. Private-sector workers are understandably angered in these very hard times by the unseemly spectacle of government employees fighting to hang onto the outlandish perks and benefits that they’ve » Read the full article