63 Comments

• dipperloop | Apr 14, 2011, 07:51 PM EDT

  Cahir, do you live in Ireland or America???

• dipperloop | Apr 14, 2011, 07:48 PM EDT

  The richiest person I know is George Sorows and he is a liberal democrat that hates America, which I am starting to think you do too.....

• BurrRobson | Mar 13, 2011, 10:42 PM EDT

  Shame on your for your ignorant articles.

• seanomelbourne | Mar 09, 2011, 05:56 PM EST

  I supported my employees right to join a union.Your narrow view of unionism and your inability to praise the unions for the conditions your unionist forefathers fought and sometimes died for. Conditions you or your employees appear to take for granted as if they fell out of a tree, the only facts that fell out of a tree was a noose for your unionist fore bearers. And you accuse me of looking foolish.Try and take away some of your workers rights(that's if they have any) and see who they will die for.The minimum pay rate in Australia is around $14 per hour in America you pay peanuts are you sure you do not get monkey's?

• seanomelbourne | Mar 08, 2011, 07:35 PM EST

  There are none so blind Maloney.

• maloney | Mar 08, 2011, 07:05 PM EST

  That's right comrade seano. o ye of little understanding. Some of us live in states with no unions at all. Quess what? Things are peachy here.

• seanomelbourne | Mar 07, 2011, 06:20 PM EST

  What doe's 2B do for a crust? He and Maloney personify what Cahir has just stated "divide and conquer" the middle class. If Maloney and 2B think the Koch brothers will not erode their standard of living when they are finish with workers right to bargain or protest they are living in lala land."Solidarity forever"

• maloney | Mar 05, 2011, 07:35 PM EST

  The real threat to America's middle class are Cahir and all the people who think as he does. Ignorance can only be blamed for so long. If their stupidity continues to go on, they can only be considered enemies of freedom and America. Cahir's current blog on muslims is proof of his and some of the posters below, ignorance or treachery, which ever the case may be.

• 2BorNot2B | Mar 03, 2011, 04:39 PM EST

  Sometime ago I lived next door to a CA firefighter whose work habits we were able to witness first hand. This guy spent 3 days living at the firehouse -which constituted the extent of his work-week- the rest of the time he spent working a few hours at another job where he had a secure position after his 'retirement' at 55 years of age, with 90% of highest salary plus full benefits! His job, then, left plenty of time for gardening, fishing and generally having a good time at home while receiving two paychecks. -- Meanwhile, my neighbor on the other side happened to be a corporate executive who put in 10/12 hour days, in addition to the commute which took another 3 hours out o his day. -- His job security was predicated on his performance, which in turn depended on whatever demand his marketing dept. was able to create for his products in the marketplace. -- At the time (more so now) many companies were simply closing their doors and/or canceling whatever job definition many executives held, instead of laying them off, in order to avoid large amounts of severance pay. -- Further, a worker reaching the executive level is generally one of 'mature age,' hence unattractive as employee to many companies because by then his income would be in the upper bracket, and the age of his retirement would be looming, therefore he was unemployable. Compare that to the job security public sector unions demand, and the burden their pensions impose on taxpayers who basically subsidize the 'vacation with double pay' of any person who works for the govt. An these people whine and throw tantrums with help from bused and paid AGITATORS? Talk about astroturf!

• Prevailer | Mar 02, 2011, 11:49 PM EST

  I was a firefighter, as my brother, my uncle. We used collective bargaining to better our needs. It is needed for good faith bargaining whereas services such as firefighting, teaching, police protection do not use strikes. We relied on compromise, respecting limits. This is what Wisconsin is fighting for the decency for each side to have some leverage in a labor agreement. Woe begon -- if it is taken from the table for labor. It will be Labor's Waterloo, and the end of the middle class in America. Private and public workers will systemically decline to a lower caste system. Never again will be: The American Dream of our fathers post WWII.

• hollabackgurl | Mar 02, 2011, 08:35 PM EST

  Oh please, the richest 20% in America cream off 84% of the money. That's an aristocracy. You need to get to Lens Crafters, seamusmoore.

• seamusmoore | Mar 02, 2011, 06:55 PM EST

  hollabackgurl be happy with your fellow "sticky" in coalition with the irish govt and don't get greedy. Class warfare NEVER WINS in America as we are a meritocracy, not an aristocracy, please remember that and don't fly off your pretty lil head.

• hollabackgurl | Mar 02, 2011, 06:21 PM EST

  The Tea Party does the opposite of what the uprisings in the Middle East do: they entrench the rule of the rich over the poor. The Tea Party, which was created and funded by the billionaire Koch bothers, is a smokescreen for their private agenda: the return of oligarchy.

• 2BorNot2B | Mar 02, 2011, 06:01 PM EST

  The Popes indeed advocated for forming 'unions' in the private sector, to counter abusive land-lords, business owners, and 'Industrial Era robber barons' especially in Europe where feudal policies prevailed despite the end of feudal culture. (For a close look at such practices, see an Italian movie called "The Tree of the Wooden Clogs"). However, even now, the Church has NEVER advocated for public sector unions, such as the ones now having a tantrum in Wisconsin, since a job within the government by definition offers no risks. -- Before the advent of public sector unions one could get a job perhaps with somewhat of a lower pay which was compensated by a practically iron-clad job security. -- Now, public sector employees earn substantially more, and have acquired benefits unheard of in the private sector. Additionally, they cannot be fired for any reason. -- So why are those of us who pay the excessive taxes that support these leeches, and cannot compare our salaries and benefits to theirs are not out there protesting as well? BECAUSE WE ARE TOO BUSY WORKING!

• 2BorNot2B | Mar 02, 2011, 05:40 PM EST

  @jerrydonovan -- I suggest that JERRY take a few hours and EXAMINE IN DEPTH the Encyclicals he mentions, and show us the exact words where either or both Popes reference the need for PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS, which by definition have NO COMPETITION, -whose membership is obligatory in order to obtain a government job; whose members are then paid by tax dollars; which include UNION DUES as part of the payroll, thereby making the government an 'agency' of the unions themselves- then, to use a large part of those dues to elect politicians who will work out COZY DEALS for them, making the entire process a true VICIOUS CIRCLE that feeds itself endlessly (or so they wish, until the citizenry awakens) by having the entire tax paying populace fund them, whether they agree with their strong-tactics and policies... or NOT.

• jerrydonovan | Mar 02, 2011, 01:14 PM EST

  Iwould suggest that some of the scribes on here should take a few minutes and read an article that was published 120years ago.It's name,RERUM NOVARUM,anencyclical that was issued by POPE LEOXIII,IN 1891.This encyclical supported the formation of unions and the workers right to collective bargaining.Many of the positions in RERUM NOVARUM,were supplemented by later encyclical,e.g.JOHNXXIII's mater et magistra.I'm sure you get the picture.The formation of a strong middle class{provided for by unions}would be the bulwark against communism and socialism.Remember,be careful what you ask for,you might just get it.

• McNabb1966 | Mar 02, 2011, 12:39 PM EST

  To continue...Cahir's attempt to link the Koch brothers to the John Birch Society through their father is another non-starter. I didn't see where he was able to actually claim that they are members, merely that their father was. Guilt by association? Not credible in this case. Especially when a quick perusal of the internet will show you that far from being "Birchers" the Koch brothers are long-standing Libertarians who help fund the ACLU, object to the Patriot Act but support drug legalization and cuts in defense spending. That's reality. But when did "reality" matter to the Left when it disrupts their narrative? And the only threat being posed in Madison lately is the one that the protresters and at least two Democrat assemblymen have posed to reporters and GOP assemblymen and assemblywomen. There is plenty of video evidence of their bad behavior, as well as their comrades in other locations like Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Ohio. But since when has the union movement NOT relied on thugs and goons to enforce their agenda? Somebody answer that for me, please.

• McNabb1966 | Mar 02, 2011, 10:45 AM EST

  Among the items that the Che Guevara crowd WON'T mention is the fact that while the Koch brothers did contribute $43,000 to the Walker campaign, the Left-leaning Greater Wisconsin Committee contributed $4.8 MILLION on behalf of his Democratic opponent, Tom Barrett. Where did the GWC get its money? Well, $1 million came from out-going Democrat Governor Jim Doyle. Of course, all of this is chump change compared to the $20 million that the Koch brothers have given to the ACLU...because they hate "the people." lol

• McNabb1966 | Mar 02, 2011, 10:22 AM EST

  It defies logic to think that the Koch brothers wield more influence in Wisconsin politics than Big Labor. Big Labor's influence is powerful enough to send 14 of their pet legislators into exile in order to keep the people's business from being done.

• hollabackgurl | Mar 02, 2011, 10:07 AM EST

  It looks like the State of Wisconsin could sell off its public utilities to its corporate donors for pennies on the dollar without any oversight by the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. If Governor Scott Walker has his way and Senate Bill 11 is passed in its entirety, two of Walker’s largest donors, oil billionaires David and Charles Koch could be handed free reign on all of Wisconsin public utilities. There's no end to their greed and desire for total dominance of the state and the nation.

• McNabb1966 | Mar 02, 2011, 09:37 AM EST

  @olovely...I'm guessing that it was far less than the unions and affiliated Left-wing organizations bussed in to attack a duly-elected governor and legislators. It was probably fewer than the number of union-controlled Democrat lawmakers who are currently hiding out in another state. And do you have evidence that Koch employees work in sub-standard conditions? If so, please share it.

• olovely | Mar 02, 2011, 09:25 AM EST

  How many of the Koch's employees did they bus in to "protest" the attack on unions? What kind of conditions do Koch employees work in? Only in right-wing bizarro world would you trust plutocrats with their employees futures.

• McNabb1966 | Mar 02, 2011, 09:05 AM EST

  Regarding the Koch brothers...The Kochs currently provide jobs for 50,000 Americans, including 3,000 in Wisconsin. Only in the Left-wing bizarro world are successful, job-providing businessmen vilified.

• McNabb1966 | Mar 02, 2011, 08:57 AM EST

  @odonnell521...Is it the Koch strategy or the Soros strategy? ...@hollabackgurl...As usual, you distort the issue. Only someone in deep denial would believe that this issue is all about teacher bashing. And if by "total decline" you mean a state's severe budget shortfall then yeah, layoffs will happen...especially since 14 cowardly Democrats fled the state rather than deal with the people's business. If Wisconsin was a private business they would be out of a job because the business would be bankrupt and the doors shut for good. And while teachers are important they are not "essential" in the way you are using that word. The evidence for that is to be found in the remarkably large number of them who skipped out on their kids, faked being "sick" and camped out at the state capitol for days. Apparently whatever it is they do wasn't so important that they couldn't abandon their "essental" jobs in order to protest the governor and legislature that the people of Wisconsin elected to solve the state's debt crisis.

• hollabackgurl | Mar 02, 2011, 07:52 AM EST

  The Koch's made $98 billion in clear profit last year, yet they still want to strip the working class of every dime they can. Imagine the good they could do for the nation if they used even 5 percent of their profit to do good rather than line their own pockets.

• hollabackgurl | Mar 02, 2011, 07:51 AM EST

  If you're reading this thank a teacher. Only a nation in total decline would consider firing them although they provide an essential service.

• odonnell521 | Mar 02, 2011, 06:19 AM EST

  From the comments so far, it looks like the Koch Brothers and their allies strategy of divide and conquer is working perfectly. As someone who has worked in both the private and public sectors in Wisconsin, I've seen that no one's hands are completely clean. But the sense of entitlement to tax cuts and deferential treatment of the super rich and large corporations because they are the "job creators" is getting tiring (especially when most of the jobs are in low-wage countries like China and India). Unions are only a problem for those who have no intention of respecting working class people or treating them as equal partners in the process. Saying you're protecting the "tax payer" is a little hypocritical when you look at how little a percentage of their income big corporations and higher income people pay, compared to average people. Gov. Walker is well-meaning, but unfortunately totally outmatched by his corporate handlers.

• McNabb1966 | Mar 02, 2011, 01:01 AM EST

  @slainte39...No, it's not class warfare. You admit that unions "can ask for too much" and then claim that "negotiations" can settle the overreach satisfactorily. What you fail to realize or mention is that - unlike the private sector where a union is negotiating with a private company - public sector unions are negotiating with elected officials or bureaucrats who are appointed by elected officials. When these elected officials need campaign funds, where do they turn? If they're Democrats in Wisconsin (who normally have control of the governor's chair and the legislature) they turn to who? Yes, the unions. So unions get paid with taxpayer dollars and then use a lot of those dollars to elect the very officials they will later "negotiate" with for compensation. See how that works? This is not about the "rights" of workers but rather the political influence of powerful and extremely partisan labor unions. Nobody in Wisconsin is being denied the right to organize. There is no "loss of freedom." That's a ridiculous red herring.

• slainte39 | Mar 02, 2011, 12:32 AM EST

  Because no one person has enough clout to go up against either private or public employing entities. Only with collective action can the little guy stand up to the powerful employers and address grievences...pretty simple. Can unions ask for too much?...sure, but that's why you have negotations. Unions are not all evil as some on this board would have you believe. Freedom to organize denied, is a terrible loss of freedom...for the less powerful. Call it class warfare if you will...but isn't that what it is?

• JimMcGarity | Mar 01, 2011, 10:56 PM EST

  Why does a goverment employee need a union?

• McNabb1966 | Mar 01, 2011, 10:36 PM EST

  Any excuse to trot out the same old discredited Marxist rhetoric, right Cahir? Well, that position is neither relevant nor honest. In fact, it's actually quite simplistic and childish...which is the norm for most Left-wing arguments. But to respond to Ephraim's post, the fact is that Clinton did not leave office with a "budget surplus." That's one of the big lies concerning his time in office. The rest of your rant is merely the usual incoherent mish-mash of half-baked class warfare nonsense that passes as political thought on the Left. Wake up and realize that you're in the 21st Century now. Don't be so reactionary...

• Pittsburghkid | Mar 01, 2011, 10:33 PM EST

  Hay: many Irish fought for the Stars and Bars. Are you trashing there memory? Teacher drain money from the middle class, and don't give as good of education as the old Nuns. Teacher pay and pensions are out of line. Ireland has enough problem, stay out of American Business.

• EphraimKibbey | Mar 01, 2011, 10:12 PM EST

  Fact - Clinton left office with a budget surplus, a solid economy (the stock market started down the day Bush was confirmed,) incentives for business to hire Americans and businesses raising wages because of a labor shortage (McDonalds was offering starting wages a dollar above minimum wage!) Fact - Bush left office with 2 of the longest wars in our history still unfinished and unpaid for, deregulated everything, growing deficit, collapsing economy, incentives for businesses to hire non-Americans and massive layoffs! Will the real fiscal conservatives please stand up? America wake - up and smell the corruption! Laying people off creates a downward spiral to our economy because you have fewer people spending; and hiring people, whether by the government or the private sector, creates an upward spiral because more people have money to spend. Economics 101. The rich have been doing a great job of turning the not so rich against each other. Union and non-union workers have more in common with each other than they do with the guys that just got billion dollar tax breaks. My tax withholding just went up. Everybody making less than $30,000 just had their taxes go up. What a con job Fox, Beck and Limbaugh have done on the public. Now the rich want to lay off educators, firemen, policemen and snowplow drivers. I guess they figure to keep our kids uneducated and unsafe while they hire their own tutors and private security firms. The shots fired April 12th, 150 years ago on Fort Sumter announced the beginning of the end for the Southern "Peculiar Institution;" and the actions in Wisconson and Ohio by the lackeys of the Billionaires against hard working Americans may have just revealed the truth of their plan to the nation. Hopefully the voters remember this in 2012 and vote their wallets maybe then we can put an end to government by and for the billionaires at the expense of the rest of us.

• jacersagain | Mar 01, 2011, 09:25 PM EST

  How is it that no one is called a far-left billionaire? I do know that Ireland has its fair share of leftist millionaires, called Socialist Millionaires. The Irish Labour Party's Ruairi Quinn is one. The Labour Prty's leader, Eamon Gilmore, is approaching that level fast too. No wonder his newcomer pal, Hannigan sees it the potential to get rich easy too - and he's gay, like Cahir O'D.

• pilib04 | Mar 01, 2011, 08:13 PM EST

  Well, I guess that explains the war on workers!

• maloney | Mar 01, 2011, 07:47 PM EST

  Cahir is right about the shell game. The main distraction is coming from the White House. The pocket being picked is America. Both sides are at fault but the left has America on a crash course to hell.

• hancock | Mar 01, 2011, 07:34 PM EST

  Or Matthews.

• olovely | Mar 01, 2011, 04:34 PM EST

  hooligan6a's an example of the paralyzing short term reactionary stupidity that is defacing American politics. We the need civility and integrity of a Lincoln; not the back room bluster of a Limbaugh.

• jimgordo1 | Mar 01, 2011, 04:28 PM EST

  hooligan6a -- you need to read your history a little further than 1861 -- Yes, the aristocrats of the South WERE Democrats and were welcomed by the Democratic which supported slavery. It was the NORTHERN Republicans under Lincoln who opposed slavery. In fact, in those days, there was no SOUTHERN Republican Party in the South. It wasn't called the "Solid South" for nothing! The South remained solidly Democratic until the Democratic Party got his head out of its ass and began supporting desegregation. The southern Democrats formed the Dixiecrats and when the Republican Party took up the banner of "states rights" and "anti-big government" and started supporting segregationists and the KKK, the Dixiecrats became Republicans. So, I suggest you look in your history book again -- it doesn't end in 1861!

• hooligan6a | Mar 01, 2011, 04:10 PM EST

  Did you mention, that all of those rich southern gentilmen were democrats? as were all of the KKK. You did mention that didn't you? Democrats I mean.

• jmchrystal | Mar 01, 2011, 03:48 PM EST

  Obviously, the South won the war, And it was an easy transition, in our commercialized life to make the jump between "Take our drug and you will have a long and healthy life" to drink the obscenely rich cool-aid and everything will be just great! Of course, having a "negro" for a president helps the cause!

• eiriamach | Mar 01, 2011, 02:33 PM EST

  The CBS/NY Times poll shows that 71% of Democrats and 62% of independents are opposed to state legislatures such as Wisconsin's stripping bargaining rights from unions. Only Republicans, by a slim majority, are in favor of the Wisconsin gov's assault on workers' right to bargain. Is it a class conflict issue? You bet, and the opposition is not just among billionaires. According to the NY Times article on the poll, "Although cutting the pay or benefits of public workers was opposed by people in all income groups, it had the most support from people earning over $100,000 a year. In that income group, 45 percent said they favored cutting pay or benefits, while 49 percent opposed it. In every other income group, a majority opposed cutting pay or benefits."

• wheelsltd | Mar 01, 2011, 02:17 PM EST

  This article is spot on! If it wasn't for unions, none of us that work for a living would have any benefits and our wages would be less than minimum. Study history for god's sake! Do you really believe in trickle down?

• hancock | Mar 01, 2011, 12:53 PM EST

  Our billionair s####ag is better than yours.

• cappamore | Mar 01, 2011, 12:23 PM EST

  Why don't we kick the billionaireson the right and the billionaires on the left out of politics and leave the governing to the people for a real change. I knaw this is pie in the sky like voting for Ralph Nader for President but we'll continue to have this argument until meaningful financial reform is enacted. Take all corporate and union money out of the equation and take our chances.I and I'm sure most folks are FRUSTRATED.

• olovely | Mar 01, 2011, 12:21 PM EST

  George Soros didn't create and fund a Tea Party. He doesn't direct a decades long campaign to end workers rights or dismantle unions. The Koch brothers have.

• slainte39 | Mar 01, 2011, 12:08 PM EST

  Thank God for George Soros??....so the right wing billionaires and their poor propogandized sheep can rationalize their fanciful fight against class warfare, unions, socialism, communism, A.A. Presidents, et. al. Joseph Goebbels had nothing over these people when it came to convincing the public who the "enemy" was. Why are they so fearful of the unions?...one of the few defenses the working, middle class has...not perfect but better than nothing. Why does the right wing succeed?...because their philosophy is promulgated by words (propoganda) and the left wing tries to do it with deeds. No contest...as the pen is mightier than the "sword", especially when there's a lot of money behind the "pen".Whatever "pen" the left has is debunked successfully as "the liberal, left wing media"...the "enemy".

• jdi2269 | Mar 01, 2011, 11:43 AM EST

  CAHIR! GIVE UP THE BOOZE! GEORGE ZOROS HSA CORRUPTED THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! DO YOUR HOMEWORK (IF YOU KNOW HOW TO READ) !!!

• concannon | Mar 01, 2011, 11:42 AM EST

  Who's more to blame for buying a $200,000 house while making mimimum wage? The Mickey D's grill-guy who wants a decent home for his kids to grow up in? Or the banker wanting to sell another (high risk) mortgage, knowing it would be sold and bundled and re-sold to investors? Or the regulators and politicians (from 2001-2008) who looked the other way because it was good for bigness...sorry, bizness? Let's blame the burger-flipper! Sorry for being such a left-leanin' devil...because God truly seems to be on the Right side!

• eiriamach | Mar 01, 2011, 11:36 AM EST

  Ever since Pres. Truman failed to stop the Taft-Hartley Act with his veto in 1947, Republicans have grown bold in union busting and Democrats have been lukewarm at best in defending workers' rights. Non-union workers will begin to realize how much they have lost if governors like Walker strip collective-bargaining rights from public employees. The gains made by decades of strong union activity benefited all workers, whether they paid union dues or not. It would be a very different America without the unions. If ever there was a single-issue political cause, this is it: workers must and will vote out every politician who does not actively oppose Republican attempts to weaken workers' rights.

• midlandsmiss | Mar 01, 2011, 11:36 AM EST

  Good article. Interesting that as the gap grows between poor and rich in the US, our education gets worse and worse. It's all about profit and power, sadly - no thought of what is best for the common good, which is what makes a country strong.

• John G. Hogan | Mar 01, 2011, 11:28 AM EST

  Criminals???.....let's start with Carter, Clinton, Dodd and Franks for the ridiculous home loan program for people who had no chance of ever repaying the loans.

• John G. Hogan | Mar 01, 2011, 11:19 AM EST

  Thank God for the Right........damn the devil for the left!!!

• FatherVol | Mar 01, 2011, 11:15 AM EST

  Dang, I wish is was planting time. I guess I can just plow this B.S. into the field and wait until it's time to sow the barley (or should I say "blarney"?).

• Newrone | Mar 01, 2011, 10:34 AM EST

  Cahir, you can turn the lights on, open the curtains, brew the coffee, pull the wool away from their eyes, but in so many cases, said eyes will just roll back and mist over and the people you are speaking to will still refuse to see the light. America isn't the only place of course, where people queue up to get voluntarily screwed, but it is certainly the most blatant example. It reminds me of the British "Proud to be Working Class" refrain and just a few months ago, some Middle Eastern Arabs defending their political systems by suggesting I "didn't understand" them. It's an age old arm of the few to rule and prosper to the destitution of the rest, but people will still walk into it with blind futile faith that they will one day be "elected" to the table of the privileged. Sheep.

• concannon | Mar 01, 2011, 10:34 AM EST

  Amen, Cahir. Just like the Southern aristocracy of 160 years ago, our present day aristocracy is very adept at convincing us "common" folk that our way of life is being threatened...instead of northern abolitionists stirring up slave revolt, it's a gay-loving, illegitimate president who wants to confiscate our guns and drive us into absolute bankruptcy (who was it again that allowed this Recession to happen?) And greedy police, firefighter, nurse and teacher's unions who think only of themselves and their pensions not the well-being of all of us. Destroy the unions! End environmental protection! End food and milk program assistance for women and children! Make the U.S. safe for our our overlords' "bottom line"! Jesus, haven't we learned anything in 160 years? I never thought I'd witness class-warfare in 2011, but isn't that what the Republican/Tea Partiers are causing? My own Senator, Richard Lugar, is on their list!

• mayoman | Mar 01, 2011, 10:19 AM EST

  Well done, Cahir.

• akellyny | Mar 01, 2011, 10:17 AM EST

  colkelley - go live in a "socialist" country and reap the benefits. YOU are the uninformed one, like so many other Americans! Socialism is NOT communism. Get educated on this. It blows my mind how ignorant people are.

• johhnyb | Mar 01, 2011, 09:37 AM EST

  Perhaps Cahir is right with his comparison. However the casualty list in Wisconsin is still approx 258,000 short. Seems far-fetched to me.

• wjb1tex | Mar 01, 2011, 09:37 AM EST

  What nonsense. The Koch brothers didn't start the Tea Party. Have you ever heard of George Soros or other billionaires on the left ? Interesting that you and others always refer to union workers only as "middle class workers" implying that encompasses all workers, so we are to infer that an attempt to rein in unions power is an attack on all workers. hollabackgurl is right. If your political party is being funded by George Soros you have joined the wrong political party.

• Searlit | Mar 01, 2011, 09:32 AM EST

  You have found your stride, Cahir. Great article!

• DLW12183 | Mar 01, 2011, 09:31 AM EST

  More left wing crap

• hollabackgurl | Mar 01, 2011, 09:20 AM EST

  I agree with this article. Here's your first clue: if your political party is being funded by billionaires then you've joined the wrong political party.