Posted on 03/06/2011 6:28:53 PM PST by Nachum
rom the Communist Party USA's Peoples World
"AFL-CIO leaders have told a top aide to Democratic President Barack Obama that the current fight in states over workers' rights is "a defining moment" Obama must use to discuss the future of the country and of workers.
Fire Fighters President Harold Schaitberger delivered that message to Obama senior advisor David Plouffe during a March 1 "working lunch" at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Washington.
Over sandwiches, potato chips, soda and coffee, toted into the council's meeting room, the union leaders told Plouffe that insistent demands by Govs. Scott Walker, R-Wis., and John Kasich, R-Ohio, to eliminate collective bargaining for state and local workers are similar to Ronald Reagan's firing of the Air Traffic Controllers 30 years ago.
But while Reagan used PATCO's strike - over unsafe conditions - as "a signal that union-busting was fine," Obama "stepped up to the plate with the governors" for union workers, Schaitberger said.
The council told Plouffe to thank Obama for that support, voiced publicly before the governors - minus Walker - and to urge him to continue it. Plouffe promised he would take that message back to the Oval Office.
"I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are derogated or vilified and their rights infringed upon," Obama declared on Feb. 28. "We need to attract the best and the brightest to public service." It was Obama's second highly publicized pro-worker, pro-union statement since the struggle with Walker began."
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Not only did Ronald Reagan FIRE the Professional Air Traffic Controllers who went on strike, HE FORBID THEM TO GET ANY FOODSTAMPS OR HELP AFTERWARDS. This Mr. Obama, is YOUR defining moment, which way will it go?
A defining moment, and the unions and Obama are both going to lose and be defined by it.
I think the ungrateful parasites should all go on strike and “teach us a lesson”.
In oter words,help us to continue to carve a damn fine living out of the taxpayers-or we will find someone else who can.
Mr. Obama wouldn’t know much about Ronald Reagan, he was just graduating from High School, in Indonesia...or at least...MAYBE IT WOULD BE GOOD for him to open up and tell us what he did during those silent years? Was he in the Muslim Seminary?
Defining moment is that it? For Communism!They can go to hell those blood sucking thieving scumbags.
DIE UNIONS DIE!!
and Obama get the F back to Kenya, damn Muslim Commie.
In other words, “This is what we’ve paid for.” ...Even though Barry is the figure head of the thugocracy, he still has to pay off his debt to his goons.
Mr. Obama wouldn’t know much about Ronald Reagan,....
One spec of dust on one of President Reagan’s shoes was more American than the whole of this evil scum.
Bwaaaaaaaa Or your azz is grass. Bwaaaaaa
Obie: You want our money and our votes, you will hear and obey!!!
I wonder if eating tons of food and not moving very much (on or off the job) has something to do with it.
Maybe the ‘Grande Caboose’ Michelle Obama should focus on her union buddies with her ‘Move On’ charade.
If the unions are expecting the Community Organizer in Chief to put on a purple t-shirt and comfortable shoes and get in the picket line with them, they have another thought coming. Obama is all talk and no action when it comes to taking a stand on anything.
Wow! More meat on the hoof in those pics than in a feedlot.
Time to prepare ping .................................... FRegards
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