She'd probably kill you if she saw she's now my "wife" (she's my girlfriend) ;-)

...but thanks very much for your support.

I like that you tie this to Bush's deficit. When the economy is bad, the people who are hardest off need the most help. Yet because of his tax cuts, there is no money for the states, and workers all over are feeling the pain.

You can also donate to the Hardship
Fund at the community support web page
www.uworkers.org

Click on the paypal icon on the upper
right side.

This is a very good progressive union
local and the strikers deserve support.

Disclosure: I work for AFSCME in the
Twin Cities, and am working with the Local.

And, of course, let's not forget that those deficits, insofar as they do not represent an investment in future productivity, amount to deferred taxation.