{"id":24826,"date":"2011-02-22T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/22\/two-items-related-to-the-manen\/"},"modified":"2011-02-22T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:34:49","slug":"two-items-related-to-the-manen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/two-items-related-to-the-manen\/","title":{"rendered":"Two items related to the maneno in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two Decades of Christian Nationalist Education Paved Way for Today&#8217;s War on Labor<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While some religious leaders have come together to voice support for public employees in Wisconsin, others view the attack on the public sector and unions as a holy war. Fundamentalist textbooks and other media have been used for indoctrination into a worldview in which unregulated free markets are divinely mandated.  In this sacralized model of capitalism, those who interfere with the invisible hand of the market are choosing &#8220;the state as provider rather than God.&#8221;  The Koch brothers may have helped finance the current war on workers, but  the narratives repeated by the Tea Partiers and their candidates echo those taught from Christian nationalist textbooks for more than two decades. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/story\/2011\/2\/20\/181252\/049\/Front_Page\/Two_Decades_of_Christian_Nationalist_Education_Paved_Way_for_Today_s_War_on_Labor\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wisconsin State Employees Actually Underpaid<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the canards that has been prevalent throughout both the federal budget debate and the battle in Wisconsin is the idea that government workers are overpaid.   The Economic Policy Institute points out the problem with this argument.<\/p>\n<p>In Wisconsin, which has become a focal point in this debate, public servants already take a pretty hefty pay cut just for the opportunity to serve their communities &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alan.com\/2011\/02\/21\/wisconsin-state-employees-actually-underpaid\/\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Decades of Christian Nationalist Education Paved Way for Today&#8217;s War on Labor While some religious leaders have come together to voice support for public employees in Wisconsin, others view the attack on the public sector and unions as a holy war. Fundamentalist textbooks and other media have been used for indoctrination into a worldview &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/two-items-related-to-the-manen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two items related to the maneno in Wisconsin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6sq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}