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Message of the Business Manager

     I had the good fortune to run into James Carville, the democratic strategist, in the New Orleans airport a few months ago and mentioned
that I had enjoyed hearing him speak at our 2011 UA convention.  We spoke about the convention a minute or two and he changed the subject rather suddenly to say, “I don’t know how many more quarters the American people are going to put into this ride we are on.”  My reply was that we really need to get on with our country and that the folks working against our President need
to be sent home. I don’t know when obstructionism became patriotism but there are people in Washington who seem to think that obstructionism is why they were elected.  The folks who have said they will work against everything President Obama tries to accomplish are just holding back our country.  That stinks and they do too.

     We are hearing about class warfare in the news these days and it always strikes me as “The Master’s touch” to accuse someone of doing what you are doing to them.  Years ago when the tax cuts to the wealthy started, no one called that class warfare but it sure was. I was speaking with a Rush listener who said “Are you going to feel better when you raise the taxes on the rich?” I asked him why we ever had different tax rates for Americans. Shouldn’t we all pay the same percentage on whatever we make? Now when I say that, I am talking about working Americans not retired Americans.  But let’s talk more.  When the tax cuts were made for the rich, they were billed as “job creators."  All it was, was a gift to his supporters that we have paid for ever since and are still paying for.  That was the nonsense we were fed at the time, sounded good a decade ago.

     So where are the jobs? After the rest of us picking up the bill for the rich for ten years, we should be choking on jobs, smothered in them with every American working overtime to our hearts desire.That is not happening though, is it? No, it isn’t. I’d say that we have put enough quarters in the ride we are being taken for and it’s time to send people to D.C. who will work with our President and for America to get us back on track.  We need it very badly.

     The Rominee has promised nation-wide right to work and to generally trample our right to bargain and other freedoms that Americans have enjoyed for more than a century. Hundred year old rights guaranteed to be taken away if we get it wrong in this election.What’s next, our right to vote? Taxing pensions? Something to think about, wouldn’t you say?                        

                                              Keep Putting 669 First!
    
John D. Bodine, Sr.
Business Manager
Local Union 669
America’s Sprinkler Local
JohnB@Sprinklerfitters669.org
www.sf669.org                                  

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