You’re right, Obama is making this whole election a battle between the unions and the private sector.
In WA state, the federal government is pushing a giant coal terminal, to ship Peabody coal to China. China doesn’t need this coal, but they are buying it because we are selling it at below market prices and China is paying for it with cheap US dollars. China has already told the developers (Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffet) that the Chinese market for this coal is time limited. So, why are they moving ahead with the project? Because Richard Trumka, as the former head of the UMW need something to offset the hit that the coal miners on the East coast are taking from the Obama administration.
It's unbelievable to me that a US President could get in bed with a thug like Trumka without the opposition party and the media going absolutely ballistic.
Of course the enemedia got The Won elected and most of the opposition party has no backbone but with the man (boy) sitting in the WH doing business with the biggest union crook in the country you'd think even they would question it.
Could you identify some of these “union” mines that will be shipping to China, for the benefit of Tumpka?