Drew Westen Psychologist and neuroscientist :
You couldn’t ask for a more cynical play by the Republicans around the country, using an economic crisis they created through deregulation and corporate giveaways masquerading as “fair trade” (i.e., incentivizing corporations to move American jobs overseas or cut American wages and benefits) to pit worker against worker, the middle class against the middle class. They also know that the unions are the only counterweight — not just in the workplace but in funding for political campaigns — to big business.
If the Democrats have any sense, they’ll harness their inner populist and go after the Republicans and their corporate sponsors and push for double-digit tax-hikes for companies whose executives earn more than 30 times the salary of their average employee — making more in a day than their workers make in a month; executives with bonuses above six figures; and corporations that cut benefits, pensions, or wages of their average worker while increasing executive compensation. Those changes would give every state in the country a massive surplus and start restoring America to a country where people who create productivity share in the fruits of it.