Taking the Side of the Billionaires

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/27-4

America’s Right – from the NFL lockout to Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget – side with the billionaires in what amounts to an escalating class war against the middle class and the poor

If American football fans end up facing a fall without NFL games, they probably won’t blame George W. Bush and other Republican presidents for packing the federal courts with right-wing judges, but it was two Bush appointees who reversed a District Court ruling that would have ended the lockout of players.

The Appeals Court judgment encouraged the NFL’s hardline billionaire owners to resist making the kinds of compromises that a few less intransigent owners recognize could easily resolve the impasse.

Now, the hardliners simply assume that Republican judges will keep siding with the NFL owners and thus enable them to beat down the players, eventually assuring the billionaire owners a bigger piece of the revenue pie – even if that means losing some or all of the 2011 season.

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as just a bunch of millionaires, but they are very often folks injured to the point they live off pain pills, and also, they are one of the few sources of minority millionaires. Do not think THAT does not come into play.

compared to what they might get elsewhere, an nfl career of even just a typical 3 years is winning the lottery.

but it certainly doesn't make one set for a lifetime, at least not to the standard that many seem to think.

And they buy products from the tv game advertisers. If people wanted to watch me work, I'd demand a bigger salary.