From the detestable grifter: Welcome, Union Brothers and Sisters

[cali]

by Sarah Palin on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 5:50am

In my speech on Saturday in Iowa, I said: “Between bailouts for Wall Street cronies and stimulus projects for union bosses’ security and ‘green energy’ giveaways, took care of his friends. And now they’re on course to raise a billion dollars for his re-election bid so that they can do it all over again.” This was shamefully on display yesterday at President Obama’s taxpayer-funded campaign rally in Detroit. In introducing the President, Teamsters President James Hoffa represented precisely what I was talking about as he declared war on concerned independent Americans and on the freshman members we sent to Congress last November by saying, “Let’s take these son-of-a-bitches out!”



What I say now, I say as a proud former union member and the wife, daughter, and sister of union members. So, as a former card-carrying IBEW sister married to a proud former Laborers, IBEW, and later USW member, please hear me out. What I have to say is for the hard working, patriotic, selfless union brothers and sisters in Michigan and throughout our country: Please don’t be taken in by union bosses’ thuggery like Jim Hoffa represented yesterday. Union bosses like this do not have your best interests at heart. What they care about is their own power and re-electing their friend Barack Obama so he will take care of them to the detriment of everyone else.



To the same degree Americans are concerned about irresponsible, greedy corporate execs who got cushy bonuses from taxpayer-funded bailouts, we should also be concerned about greedy union bosses who are willing to tank our economy just to protect their own power. As union history shows, power and greed corrupt. Just because you claim to represent union members doesn’t mean you are on the side of the angels. The greed of too many of these union bosses has all but destroyed the labor movement in this country, helped chase away our jobs, and is killing the American dream.



To see where this leads, look at what’s happening to the working class in our industrialized cities. These cities are going to hell in a hand basket thanks to corruption, crony capitalism, and the union bosses’ greed. The union bosses derive their power from your union dues and their promise to deliver your votes to whichever politician they’re in bed with. They get their power from you, and yet their actions ultimately hurt you. They’re chasing American industry offshore by making outrageous, economically illogical demands that they know will never work. And now that they’ve chased jobs out of union states, they’re trying to chase them out of right-to-work states like South Carolina, so eventually the jobs will leave America altogether. But these union bosses will still figure out a way to keep their gig, and so will their politically aligned corporate friends. As long as these big corporations have a good crony capitalist in the White House, they can rely on DC to bail them out until the whole system goes bankrupt, which, I am afraid, is not very far off. When big government, big business, and big union bosses collude together, they get government to maximize their own interests against those of the rest of the country.

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[StandingInLeftField]

1. teh stooopid....it burns

[lpbk2713]

2. The most unabashed hypocritical opportunist of all time.

Give me a fuggen break Quitter.

[JuniperLea]

3. Holy smokes...

She just... not too... erm... wtf?

[monmouth]

4. Will the real author please stand up?...n/t

[lumpy]

8. God only knows who is the author of that mishmosh of a speech.

Probably her backers, Todd and Daddy.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Us vs. Them

Republicans worship at the altar of division. :puke:

[lumpy]

6. Hard to figure out who she is for or against or just against

any and all. I guess I am just as confused about her as she is confused bout everything.

[TwilightGardener]

7. She's trying to divide rank and file union members against their leaders.

[EC]

9. What the hell is she talking about?

Anything that benifits the Union IS FOR LABOR...I swear, she thinks the union heads are all there is to the unions. The people in the unions are the WORKERS OF THIS COUNTRY...what does she not get about that? Or is she purposely being obtuse? I think she just can't form a thought past talking points.

[WDIM]

17. I think she is talking to the uninformed.

That is usually her audience. Most of America is not unionized any more so they probably don't know what a union really is.

If anything the unions have been too silent. With those overtime rules Bush passed. There should of been a strike just on those reasons alone! The demand for equal pay to what the executives are getting! I mean they can get paid more but it shouldn't be so big a difference that I live in poverty and you live in a mansion. No full time working individual should be in poverty! We have a right to a liveable wage! We have a right to equality in the pay scale!

[WDIM]

10. They always want to turn it around on the unions.

In fact it is Free Trade that has taken our jobs away!
End Free Trade. Bring back our protective tarriffs!
Do not allow the shipment of our natural resources over seas!
Export only manufactured goods.

Higher unemployment means cheaper labor. Maximize profits! just wait till your boss says your getting a pay cut as the company still makes record profits.

End Free Trade!
Bring our jobs back!

[RockaFowler]

11. What the heck was that??

I can't decipher it one way or another

[Brickbat]

12. ROFLMAO.

:rofl:

[TwilightGardener]

13. Are Big Business and Big Union Bosses colluding together? I refudiate that assertion.

[Matariki]

14. "union bosses, union bosses, union bosses"

:eyes:

[spanone]

15. at least i don't have to hear that whiney- assed voice...piss off grifter

[Contrary1]

16. "still figure out a way to keep their gig..."

You too, Sarah.