AFL-CIO president John Sweeney threatens to bring in the muscle when all those “nicely dressed” people express themselves to their elected representatives at town hall meetings across the country:
The nation’s largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess…
“The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts.”
This could get really interesting. And by “interesting,” I mean tragic.
The main talking point for reform advocates is “what’s in it for you.”
Which raises the question: Don’t AFL-CIO workers already have generous health care insurance? Because I thought was one of their organizing principles.
Update: It’s starting.
I guess the Democrats were right after all. At a town meeting held by a Democrat congressman, a rowdy group of organized and angry thugs showed up to make a point about ObamaCare, and then beat up a man. Race was involved, too: the victim was black — attacked by a man yelling racial slurs.
It’s every Democrat talking point you’ve read about in the last day or two, come to life in an ugly fashion.
With one twist. The black victim was a conservative, and the assailants may well have been union thugs…
Skippy-san predicted this too. Sorta.
The AFL-CIO: Good for doing what comes naturally.
It is going to warm my cold black heart if this healthcare fiasco gets passed and all those Union members get told they no longer have private healthcare and have to go with the public brand.
Because… that’s what’s going to happen. If a business is taxed to provide for this public healthcare, then why would they want to pay ON TOP of that for private for their employees? They won’t.
In my less optimistic moments I think of Sir Alexander Tytler’s famous quote and its relatively corollary political cycle, namely:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
and the cycle of political forms a democracy is borne and dies in
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.
Something tells me we’re somewhere around leaving the apathy stage, after all hope and change lead an uptick in political participation. To help the process along the statists who desire to be loved for ushering in their farcical utopia / are interested mostly in their own narcissistic power / feel they are our moral and intellectual superiors and should control us, are now deploying brown shirt-esque muscle in their bid to cow us so knuckle-draggingly retarded as to question their enlightment clearly into dependency with universal health care. A few years ago I couldn’t fathom the possibility of the world’s most free and, not coincidentally, most successful and prosperous nation in history voting itself into slavery to the federal government / freedom from responsibility for themselves in return for a few thousand bucks per year, and what’s more to pretend all the while that it’s being done in the name of principle. But now . . .
How I pray this health care bill dies an inglorious death.
Maybe it’s time for the American Legion to get back to it’s roots. Was a time they knew how to deal with Wobblies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_Massacre_(Washington)
At least they did in my town. Let’s hope the spirit and character of Capt Warren Grimm lives on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Grimm
Blackeagle, Good dope on the Wobblies. My guess is the Wife and Children of Capt. Girmm were the very first into the Witness Protection Program all thanks to a Union. I wonder if my local SEIU branch has Union Hall. Might be something to keep an eye on!!!
BT: Jimmy T sends.