Posted on Tuesday, 15th September 2009 by Roland_Melnick
We’ve discussed the sweeping in of a far-Leftist cloaked as moderate-Left President. We’ve witnessed the sub-contexts hidden beneath recent labor disputes at Mercury Marine in Fond Du Lac and Thomas Products in Sheboygan. Many of us heard the strange, children-of-the-corn-like interviews of those workers who voted “No” in those cases (a “No” vote being a vote to surrender the jobs at those plants).
To help everyone understand just how far out in Left field these folks are, read this article passed to me this afternoon via email from Bruce. It’s written by the Communcations Director for the AFL-CIO Milwaukee Area Labor Council’s “In The News” section of their website.
I and others have predicted that Scott Walker will face a litany of intense criticism in the coming months before the 2010 election for Wisconsin Governor. No big revelation there given the fact that local liberals have been in permanent smear-Walker mode for the past couple years. The propaganda arm for Milwaukee’s labor unions has decided to take their politicking a step further than usual, and just start making shit up. (Sorry for the language, but it perfectly describes what they’re doing.)
Oddly, this insipid peek-into-the-future type piece written by Dominique Paul Noth places Scott Walker as the mayor of Milwaukee. Apparently, even when writing a work of fiction, liberals can’t bring themselves to type “Governor Walker.”
Noth predicts Walker’s mayoral run will attract the support of a genre bending make believe media conglomerate called the “Sinclair Journal Sentinel.” We all know…*wink, wink*…that mega huge corporations shill for mayoral races in medium sized cities.
I won’t bore you with a line-by-line summary of the rest of this garbage, it’s a laundry list of all the moanings and memes that can be heard from the SE Wisconsin Leftosphere: anti-freeway expansion, anti-school voucher, anti-corporation, all Republicans are “birthers” and more. There were also the obligatory shots at the usual targets: George Bush, Leah Vukmir, Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, Annette Ziegler and Michael Gableman.
Of course, no current liberal rant would be complete without including old Joe “You Lie!” Wilson:
“I think we underestimated the popularity of Obama’s health care reform,” admitted Joe Wilson, the newly emigrated South Carolinian who became the chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party, in explaining the remarkable 2010 Democratic sweep of federal and statewide offices.
Sure, this stuff is par for the course when a group of dudes gather around in beanbag chairs to smoke a bowl, but as an official publication it appears that Mr. Noth is overbaked.
Are the dues of the working members of the AFL-CIO paying this guy’s salary? In addition to wanting my dues money back were I a card carrying AFL-CIO laborer, I would demand to know how being so radically partisan serves the union membership. However, I know I can’t think about this from my perspective. Something tells me they don’t care…they’ve gone “all-in” with Obamacare. Should it pass, a power grab that big will be a boon for organized labor and a foot in the front door of all our homes.
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September 15th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Noth is still PO’d that he is NOT at the Journal-Sentinel and McIlheran remains there.
When Ray Taylor (yes, I knew Ray) was editor of the Labor Press, they ran articles which actually made sense.
The only redeeming value of Noth? His cousin, the TV star.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:46 am
The politicization of labor unions follows from their realization that their future lies almost entirely with government- that is, with government legislation (“Card Check”), and government employment.
If Milwaukee County were a business, its union employees would have driven it into bankruptcy, just as surely as General Motors and Bethlehem Steel.
But, governments don’t go out of business when they can’t pay their bills, they just raise taxes. And, with labor union members increasingly drawing their pay out of the taxpayer’s pocket, politicization is inevitable.
And in this game, taxpayers are at a huge disadvantage since a win for a union-backed politician can generate massive taxpayer liabilities that extend far beyond the politician’s term of office (e.g., pensions), and which later taxpayer victories cannot roll back.
September 15th, 2009 at 11:37 am
I agree Al…to take what you’re saying one step further, Obamacare will push the government payrolls ever closer, if not past, the tipping point where there are more people working for the government than not. An economy with an ever shrinking private sector will not be able to create enough wealth to pay for the leviathan our government has/will become.
September 15th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Comparing the issues at Mercury with the AFL-CIO is not really fair.
AFL-CIO is currently comprised of alot of illegals, and that union is actually loved by the republocrats.
I’m not a union fan, never have been, never will, but you have to at least look at it rationally.
christ, i’m surprised the republicans aren’t drooling over the AFL-CIO like the left is.
On that issue, they both crap in the same pot.
September 16th, 2009 at 8:37 am
their future lies almost entirely with government– that is, with government legislation
Following the model of General Electric!
So the unions are not stupid; they are flesh-eating carbuncles, like GE!
September 16th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Yes dad29,
but who started it within GE ?
could that be JACK WELCH ? The poster boy?