The labor unrest in Wisconsin exposed the Republican Party’s plan to essentially divide-and-conquer the lower classes in America, a liberal author recently wrote.

‘The Republican strategy is to split the vast middle and working class – pitting unionized workers against non-unionized, public-sector workers against non-public, older workers within sight of Medicare and Social Security against younger workers who don’t believe these programs will be there for them, and the poor against the working middle class,’ Robert Reich wrote on his blog Thursday.

He continued, ‘Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker and his GOP legislature are seeking to end almost all union rights for teachers.’

Reich, the author of ‘Supercapitalism,’ who served as President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor, explained that blaming of public workers for budgetary matters at state levels is part of the GOP’s overall goal: to hide the economic excesses of the wealthiest Americans.

‘Republicans would rather no one notice their campaign to shrink the pie even further with additional tax cuts for the rich – making the Bush tax cuts permanent, further reducing the estate tax, and allowing the wealthy to shift ever more of their income into capital gains taxed at 15 percent,’ Reich wrote.

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