Dems at war: Public unions vs. gentry liberals | Michael Barone

Posted on September 19, 2010
Filed Under Congress, Democratic Party, Elections, Media, Obama, Progressives | 7301 Comment2010-09-19+19%3A06%3A12MikesView

Yes, these influential Democratic Party voters are beginning to feel the wrath of Obama, Reid and Pelosi. Their kids futures, beyond the horizon of time, are beginning to look as bleak as for everyone else’s kids. This is the supposed intelligence class of the ‘D’ party, that group that would not listen to reason, but instead listened to the vacuous press in 2007-2008, during the campaign. Really, they are dumb-ass ignoramuses.

Michael Barone: Dems at war: Public unions vs. gentry liberals | Washington Examiner.

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MikesView on September 19th, 2010 3:50 PM

They deserve their place in bed with these public unions. Union membership in the private sector has continually declined since the ’70s due to membership getting screwed by union leadership, not because of some perceived capitalist attack on unions.

I was in two unions in the first half of the seventies, the AFL-CIO United Steelworkers and the Allied Industrial Workers Union (now the Allied Industrial Workers International Union of the AFL-CIO). I had my life threatened three separate times, jumped by three enforcers at a break catering truck (I had to fight them off and that is all I will say), had one guy explain how they killed people with a ball bearing gun at a previous strike against a company I was delivering to (this was because my truck had no markings, yet I was in the United Steelworkers at the time), was shot at (probably over the cab of my truck), and had a cinder block thrown at my truck by Teamsters that did not like the plain truck and then a 25 person gang of Teamsters came after my truck when I was parked near their strike line. I watched as union representatives lived lavish lifestyles, while union employees received little help from these same representatives. Bottom line, unions did nothing for me, except to extort a portion of my paycheck weekly.

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