I just have to comment more on Bob King, president of the UAW, and his unceasing union drivel that is getting major play in our newspapers and in other media…why?
What pisses me off is that the media is not allowing contrarian voices to be heard.
King basically is calling for a class war. He is harkening to the days of Marx and Engels and the Communist Manifesto. In those days (late 1800s) of the industrial revolution, yes, people including women and kids, worked in sweat shops for pennies and lived hand to mouth while the industrialists grew fatter by the minute…those were the conditions that spawned the Communist Manifesto.
Marx envisioned (in England
In the U.S. we had the age of the “Robber Barons” or powerful industrialists that built this country but garnered scorn, as all rich men do, for their business practices that some say exploited the working man.
Unions had a vital role in the history of labor, no one is denying that, but we are in a new age where unions are a DETRIMENT to progress. Unions have become greedy and corrupt and have no place in our new economy…so they must die; thank you and now goodbye.
King keeps harping on the middle class and how unions created the middle class. No one creates a middle class; the economy does. These are people that fit in between the poor and the rich and that is a wide class of people that can also be divided into lower and upper middle class.
Unions and especially the UAW in Michigan US
So yes, the middle class created by the unions was great while it lasted but since that middle class was artificially created; it was and is unsustainable and a new middle class, created by the nascent economy is now in place and growing.
King also harps on the fact that the rich (individuals and corporations) and the right-wing media (FOX?) are in a campaign to kill unions. He laments that in the 50s and 60s, 39% of private sector workers were in unions and now it has dropped to 7%. He attributes that to union bashing and not to global economic conditions. Well, he would since he is fighting a battle he can never win.
King likens the battle in Wisconsin with the battles in Egypt , Tunisia and Libya
He equates blocking the vote in Wisconsin
Like I said, these are the words of a quickly sinking man but this gibberish can and will resonate with the great unwashed, looking for any excuse to fight the inevitable demise of their budget busting privileged status.
True democracy allows for duly elected officials to do the jobs they were elected to do. Blocking that democratic process is not only un-democratic but it borders on anarchy and reminds us of the Bolshevik Revolution where so called “workers” took over the reigns of government, slaughtered millions, and ruled with an iron fist behind an iron curtain of Communism.
That is what Bob King is suggesting and we know that for history not to repeat itself, we need to act and not remain silent.
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