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July 3, 2011

And then Came the Floods

By Michael Shaw


Sure, it’s a vivid snapshot of the havoc wreaked by the Midwest’s disastrous floods. Perhaps even more so, though, it reflects the American working class underwater.

(photo: Nati Harnik / AP caption:A figure of a worker, part of the Monument to Labor statue by Matthew Placzek, juts out of the rising waters of the Missouri River at Omaha’s Lewis & Clark Landing in Omaha, Neb., on June 26. The Missouri River, swollen by heavy rains and melting snow, has been flooding areas from Montana through Missouri.)

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  • BooksAlive

    Showing the power of water flowing fast and over the banks. The Yellowstone River oil spill is thought to be caused by erosion, along with floating debris. The Yellowstone is a tributary to the Missouri River, which adds to the misery of the workers since the spill is proving impossible to contain.

  • black dog barking

    Trickle Down, 2011. 

    “A rising tide lifts all boats” they used to say. They forgot to say what happens when you don’t have a boat.

  • lq

    Looking at your previous post re: the ‘Safety Myth’ in Japan, I thought of the rubber berm built to forestall flooding the nuclear reactor in Nebraska, just south of Omaha.  Little news article last week that part of the ’super safe berm’ had been breached, nothing since.  I think we have our own safety myth problems in this country, and this picture of an almost submerged statue celebrating a worker makes me even more convinced.  And scared, also.

  • Anonymous

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  • Anonymous

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  • omen

    ross perot’s response when asked about NAFTA:

    “The first thing you will hear is a giant sucking sound and that will be all our jobs going out if the country.”

    american workers have been treated like shi*t and are being flushed down the toilet. round and round we go, when it’ll stop, nobody knows.

    as if it’s not bad enough we can’t count on the government to protect our jobs, we can’t even depend on government to shield us from corporate polluters and industries that insists on poisoning our food and water by spewing toxins all over the place. more corexit please.

    reagan was right. government is the problem.

    • Seth

      Reagan did his level best to help corporate polluters do those things by depriving government of the tools to regulate.  And your conclusion is that he was “right”?   

  • Jiaozuodaxue1

    You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog

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    • Paul Simon

      “Slip-sliding away…”

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  • omen

    i was being ironic by quoting reagan. sorry, i should have included a sarcasm tag. government IS the problem when it fails to protect its citizens.

  • omen

    i was being ironic by quoting reagan. sorry, i should have included a sarcasm tag. government IS the problem when it fails to protect its citizens.

  • omen

    i was being ironic by quoting reagan. sorry, i should have included a sarcasm tag. government IS the problem when it fails to protect its citizens.

  • omen

    i was being ironic by quoting reagan. sorry, i should have included a sarcasm tag. government IS the problem when it fails to protect its citizens.

  • omen

    what did guest say?

  • omen

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  • omen

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