Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has betrayed us all ... a 'low-wage' state workforce is apparently his vision for our economic future.
We read this headline in this morning's Denver Post, "Ritter vetoes labor measure."
The veto sends this clear message: screw you middle class working folks.
One of the things keeping Colorado's economy afloat, while other states are still sinking in the current recession, is that we have not succumbed to the race to the bottom on wages. Now Ritter lets the corporate grocery stores know that they are free to cut wages, benefits and pensions for our neighbors who make a livable wage working at Safeway or King Sooper or Alberstons.
Make no mistake, when butchers and checkers and stockers and dairy/produce/grocery workers get locked-out and their take-home pay shrinks -- all the rest of us will suffer as a result of the "falling tide sinks all boats" truism. Meanwhile, out-of-state corporate management will be chuckling all the way to the bank (although Ritter will undoubtedly score some nice campaign contributions from these people).
Ritter has once again demonstrated that he is a governor with few bedrock principles; he is a timid, fence-straddling, risk-averse POLITICIAN.
We surely need a new progressive leader to be taking the oath of office for our state government come 2011.
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