Cairo Comes to Madison,

and that's what the powers-that-be were so afraid of when the widespread protests happened in Egypt, Tunisia, Greece, Ireland, and other countries and why we didn't have a whole lot of coverage on most of them.

And we know the media especially didn't want to cover the onslaught against public employees in the United States.

Republicans have been so adept at brainwashing the public that they think they can get away with it. And now that neoliberalism has overtaken the Democratic Party, there is no political opposition to the attempts to destroy the middle class once and for all. Note, for example, Obama's complete indifference to the Wisconsin situation.

The WSWS has something to say about these current events.

nstead, they are part and parcel of an orchestrated attack on working class living standards being carried out by both big business parties, led above all by the Obama administration. While handing over trillions to bail out Wall Street, provide tax breaks for the rich and finance its criminal wars, the White House has refused to help the states, which have a combined deficit of $126 billion. The budget shortfall is being seized upon as a pretext to lay waste to any form of government spending that does not boost the fortunes of the rich, the banks, and the corporations.

Across the border in Illinois, the Democratic-controlled state legislature is moving toward banning the right of public school teachers to strike in order to carry forward a massive assault on public education. In Ohio, a Republican governor is working hand-in-hand with Democratic mayors to bar public employee strikes. Democratic governors in New York and California are ordering unprecedented budget cuts, just like their Republican counterparts in states such as Florida and Arizona.

Democratic politicians are about as big an enemy as Republican ones. People better wake the hell up. Politicians are also blatantly lying that their budgets are broke while at the same time refusing to acknowledge the fact too few people have too much money and all at the masses' expense.