i thunk so

I like to think that I am unaffected by these ridiculously early campaign stump speeches and straw polls, but sometimes I just can’t help but watch. Train wrecks and all that…

Over the Labor Day weekend, Hillary was wooing the union labor vote.

I find the liberal stance on border control (they want open borders) and illegal immigration (they want to ignore it) to be quite at odds with what union laborers generally want. Now, of course union laborers also want handouts from anywhere they can get them, but how does letting millions of illegals pour across the border help the typical blue-collar union laborer? Answer: it clearly does not. Millions of illegals taking jobs from lower middle class Americans undercuts the blue collar wages. Illegals also tend to be non-union workers. Unorganized labor doesn’t contribute dues to the labor unions.

I can’t say that I care about the survival of labor unions anyway. Unions are not about equality. Maybe they were at one time, but now they’re about selfishness and consumer exploitation. In a way, union labor is a microcosm of what’s happening with our federal government: power to the aristocracy and screws to you. Unions pay their dues like lemmings while policy is dictated to them from on high. The upper crust has little concern for the everyday plight of the middle class, or they would give unions the tough love they need to survive.

I just find it ironic that unions will back liberal candidates in elections, yet liberals have an agenda of empowering government — the most anti-union agenda one could have.

Filed by JP at 10:15 am under Rants, Opinions, Democracy