There were several very good ideas in the final 21 and people on this list should go to the site and vote.
Why don't you figure out how to get left-wing ideas some press before you call the SEIU's concept a farce.
How farcical is the Green Party for that matter?
boddi
On 1/9/06, lbo at hvgreens.org <lbo at hvgreens.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> I just posted the following comment in regard to the SEIU's latest
> dud, errrr, http://sinceslicedbread.com. I posted anonomously of
> course (I wasn't sure I wanted to be associated with what ended up
> being a major farce.)
>
>
> "I don't see how the winning 21 ideas will do much to improve the lives of
> ordinary working people or the middle class for that matter. We've been
> subject to increasing polarization between the haves and have nots for the
> last 30 years and the winning ideas won't do much to change that. The main
> way to make life better for ordinary people is to make wages and benefits
> better for working Americans. We should be working fewer hours for more
> pay if you want life to get better for most people. How does that happen
> with the 21 winning ideas? The bias of the wealthy judges came through
> loud and clear; they want ideas that will make them richer not ideas that
> will help workers. There is only one idea I wanted to vote for out of the
> 21 but the site required me to vote for three. I ended up having to vote
> for two more ideas I was loath to vote for just to get the one I wanted
> (sounds like our electorial process, doesn't it?) I pitty the poor dues
> paying members of the SEIU who had to front the cash for this awful
> experiment out of their hard earned dollars. This looks like a contest
> that should have been paid for from Chamber of Commerce type
> organizations, not a union. Hell, I bet the Walton family of Walmarts
> would have been happy to have paid for this contest given the way it
> turned out (with unions blowing their member's money on contests like
> this, billionaires like the Waltons have nothing to fear.)"
>
> Chuck
> Ann Arbor
>
>
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