A Better Vision for America: Barack Obama (Part 1)

[Omaha Steve]

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by JoesUnionReview
Tue Sep 09, 2008 at 03:45:33 PM PDT

I am a proud union construction member, the mother organization of all the construction unions is The Building And Constructions Trades Council, of the AFL-CIO

Many times when I am on a jobsite, as I am kinda, sorta known as an informed union member, I get asked questions about politics, as in the "who are you voting for?'

I really hate that question, as ,my initial idea when getting active in labor was to avoid the political end of it, but unfortunately, labor movement is politics.

So I usually wind up avoiding all the BS that my constituents ingest in the Main Stream Media and return their questions with a question of my own.

that question is "What is the most important thing in life?"

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What is the most important thing in life?

Usually I get some weird looks, and some pausing, but, it seems that even though my friends are very knowledgeable of the wedge issues, like off-shore drilling, you know the thing that will make us less dependent on foreign oil, or as I say, off shore drilling will benefit us as much as using our food supply for fuel, not much at all. It may benefit the huge corporations on the US taxpayers tit, as the ethanol craze has for Big agriculture. But, benefit the American people, I don't think so.

Abortion, um, don't have one, gay marriage, don't get married to someone of the same sex. I mean this is simple stuff, how about guns? Want one in the country, sure, that doesn't mean you should be able to get an AK-47 in New York City. Book banning from public libraries, um, no, why not just start burning witches again? Heck I would pay to see that, I mean it's got to at least be as cool as UFC. Hell, I'm on a roll, vote for me in '12, but let's get back to the issue at hand.

I started Joe's Union Review to help ALL worker's in the United States, so when I say I need to be affluent in politics, that's an understatement. The more I have learned the more I see that there are officials on both sides who screw us every day, but, the Republicans have the honor of being the tops, I mean really, they are pushing Right To Work (for less) laws in Colorado, how they voted against the Employee Free Choice Act. It's as if they aren't even trying to hide how in the pocket of the big corporations they are. I mean at least the Democrats use a little stealth

I can blurt out about John McCain voting against raising the minimum wage, or how he wants us to not be able to get group health insurance, even pay for it with our own money, our own TAXED money. How he stated he would be in favor with every Free Trade deal that came his way, how he told a bunch of construction workers while he was going around the country calling for unilateral Amnesty for illegal aliens, that the American worker couldn't pick lettuce in Yuma for $50 an hour. But, I won't bother, lets just get back to the question, of the most important thing.

FULL article at link.