Below is a story from this morning's NYT about the governor of Maine attempting to remove some murals in the lobby of the Department of Labor. The paintings depict workers of various backgrounds engaging in their respective workings.
Conservatives want them removed because there are no pictures of, well, I guess managers, and therefore, they lack balance in their presentations.
Seriously.
Maybe they should hang portraits of some Fox News pundits.
Or, better still, what about some paintings of 1800 England during the industrial revolution where small children were used to remove objects which became stuck in huge equipment because adults were too large for the task. A picture of a 8 year old boy pulling back a bleeding stump where his arm used to be would give some balance. Too bad labor unions helped to end that practice.
Or, how about a picture of some thugs hired by Henry Ford beating factory workers at Ford's Detroit River Rouge plant in the 1930's when the workers tried to unionize?
Maybe a picture of greedy Wall Street bankers selling collateralized debt obligations to an unsuspecting public, helping to bring down the economy in 2008?
There are so many worthy counterbalances to those greedy people trying to earn an honest living.
Surely big business should be able to control not only the Department of Labor, but the images contained there as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/us/24lepage.html?emc=eta1
Are Republicans the only ones brave enough to stand up for these mistreated corporations?
here's an updated story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/24/maine-governors-decision-remove-labor-mural-letter_n_840282.html
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