By the tens of thousands, so-called Progressives, Socialists, Communists, and their unions will be gathering in Washington for a call to arms—one final putsch —before November 2nd. They will come by car, by train, by rented bus , to make demands, not for freedom or honor —as marchers have in the past—but for greater redistribution of wealth, more burdensome regulations, more unions, and they want jobs too . [Provided by whom?] It is with this in mind, as they climb aboard their buses, sit upon their trains and ride the distance to their Marxist March, that we offer these words, as stated by the late radio commentator Paul Harvey in 1964: Any man who claims you owe him a living is a cannibal. Whether foreign or domestic, he is a cannibal. If you choose to help him, that is one thing. If he demands you “help” as his “right,” he is a leech, a sycophant, a parasite. He is a cannibal seeking to survive by consuming you. And, as relevant today as they were then, here are Paul Harvey’s words in their full context: America has become a cannibal society, devouring its best. The competent, numerically outnumbered by the incompetents, are being corralled, restrained, confined and milked like barnyard cattle. The giants who created our skyscraper civilization are now ordered to obey Lilliputian bureaucrats. Common men—who owe their jobs to uncommon men who create jobs—gang together to shackle their providers. Americans are becoming congenital dependents. Even as loafing relatives extort a livelihood by claiming they have a “right” to your money—so today eight million homegrown moochers insist that you are responsible for their welfare! Thus, we subsidize promiscuous mothers and their illegitimate babies and lazy feather bedders and goldbricking government pay rollers…While we penalize the strong, the purposeful, the productive with disproportionate burdens of taxes, pressures, red tape. We praise ventures which are “non-profit” and grant them tax advantages and social acceptance, yet we damn the men who make the profits which make the “non-profit” ventures possible. Americans want to keep the electric lights but destroy the generators. What if the men of brains and initiative and industry should go on strike? It happened once. “The Dark Ages” were a period of stagnation when men of exceptional ability gave up, figured “what’s the use?” and went underground—for a thousand years. Ayn Rand, author of “Atlas Shrugged,” thinks it may have to happen that way again. Dr. Charles Mayo says, “I know of no individual, no nation, that ever did anything worthwhile on a five-day week.” Already many American industrialists are turning the keys on their corporations and going to Florida—either part-time or full-time—to become non-productive beachcombers. Curiously, Russia is beginning to reward the uncommon men. Soviet scholar Vadim A. Trapeznikov—not without Kremlin sanction—is now referring to the Soviet system as “obsolete.” He says Russia’s economy must now rely on the “more productive profit motive.” We, on the other hand, continue to play the democratic con-game which pretends that all men are equal and that anybody who demonstrates any inequality should be punished for it. Any insolent beggar can wave his sores in your face and plead for help in the tone of a threat. You are expected to feel “guilty” for having more than he. Any barefoot bum from the pestholes of Asia or Africa cries out, “How dare you be rich!” And we beg them to be patient and we promise to give it all away as fast as possible. The economic creed of “enlightened selfishness” which made our nation the powerhouse of this planet has been so maligned that now it sounds like heresy when I say: Any man who claims you owe him a living is a cannibal. Whether foreign or domestic, he is a cannibal. If you choose to help him, that is one thing. If he demands you “help” as his “right,” he is a leech, a sycophant, a parasite. He is a cannibal seeking to survive by consuming you. So, as you marchers march, making your demands upon others, we wanted you to put yourself into proper perspective and, in the words of Paul Harvey, have a… Good Day! __________________ “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 Cross-posted . For news and views on today’s unions, go to LaborUnionReport.com . The Concord Project: Fighting for Freedom in the Fall
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Cannibals Converge on Washington
They’ve been agitating for a complete redistribution of wealth and power for more than 100 years. Now, they’re getting pretty darn close to accomplishing it. Following the AFL-CIO’s August attempt to fire Michael Dell at Dell Computers , the Teamsters have gone gunning for the founder of FedEx, Chairman Fred Smith. From the Teamsters’ press release : At FedEx Corporation’s [NYSE: FDX] annual meeting today the Teamsters’ shareholder proposal to appoint an independent board chairman received 35 percent support according to results announced at the meeting. This marks a big leap in investor support for the proposed reform which received 27 percent support in 2009. Excluding shares held by FedEx founder, Chairman and CEO Fred Smith and his business enterprises, 38 percent of the votes cast were in favor of the Teamsters’ proposal—a significant vote for change on the FedEx Board. “Shareholders are growing tired of Chairman Smith’s stranglehold on the FedEx board,” said Teamsters General Secretary-Treasurer C. Thomas Keegel. “It’s time for independent board leadership at FedEx.” This ties into AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka’s statement on Friday that… we need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government. That’s a long-term job, but one we should start now. Well, they do seem to be on their way, don’t they? Hashtag : #marxmadness __________________ “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 For news and views on today’s unions, go to LaborUnionReport.com . The Concord Project: Fighting for Freedom in the Fall
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Teamsters Attempt to Oust FedEx Founder & Chairman Fred Smith from Co.
AFL-CIO Boss Richard Trumka, the same guy who pled the Fifth Amendment before Congress is doing all he can to carry the Democrats’ water for the mid-term elections, including (but not limited to) demonizing Tea Party activists. Last Friday, Trumka lobbed some rhetorical grenades at Tea Party activists using terms such as confused , cynical , deeply dishonest , and incoherent . Trumka and Working America Executive Director Karen Nussbaum, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, Eric Alterman, journalist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and moderator Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation, led a panel discussion—Which Way for the Working Class? Elections 2010 and Beyond—Friday afternoon in New York City. More than 400 people attended the event at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Trumka said it is vital to channel working-class anger away from Fox News and Tea Party extremists who are delivering a cynical, deeply dishonest and incoherent message —that big government is somehow to blame for the current crisis that the budget deficit will eat our children, and that illegal immigrants took all the good jobs. Trumka also used his talk to confirm his apparent embrace of socialism . In the short term, said Trumka, the labor movement has to “recapture the moment and take control of the national conversation.” Building for the future, we need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government. That’s a long-term job, but one we should start now. Union activists, progressives, socialists, and communists are converging on Washington this Saturday to reaffirm their commitment to ending free-enterprise and to work to get out the vote in November. However, Trumka’s comments pointedly show the disdain he has for Tea Partiers, as well as many union members who are tea party activists and don’t ascribe to Trumka’s pushing America into socialism. Cross-posted . Hashtags : #marxmadness #March4Marxism #progressiveputsch #liberallovein #socialiststampede __________________ “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 For news and views on today’s unions, go to LaborUnionReport.com . Help Get Out the Vote by going to The Concord Project .
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AFL-CIO Boss: Fox & ‘Confused’ Tea Partiers Deliver a ‘Cynical, Deeply Dishonest, and Incoherent Message.’
You know that old adage about throwing stones and living in glass houses, right? Well, when it comes to hypocritical moments, today’s union bosses sometimes just outdo themselves in ways that leave you just shaking your head in astonishment. Take, for example, the United Food & Commercial Workers union (UFCW). Even if you’ve never heard of the UFCW, you’re probably familiar with their work. You see, in addition to having butchers , bakers , and (we’re still looking for) candlestick makers, the UFCW is the same union that has had its sights set on America’s largest (non-union) employer, WalMart. You see, with WalMart being America’s largest employer whose employees aren’t kicking millions in union dues into the UFCW coffers, the UFCW has declared an all out war on the Arkansas-based company. In fact, behind the vast majority of anti-WalMart blogs , websites , and media hit-jobs , the UFCW is likely to have its hands in them. However, as much as the UFCW publicly berates WalMart for its alleged mistreatment of the retailers workers, the union has its own storied past that it tries to keep secret. For example, last month, we wrote about union hypocrisy , citing a couple examples of where, in one case, the UFCW had its own workers go out on strike, then boasted of cutting its employees wages; and, in another case, fired its own employees. This latest example of UFCW hypocrisy, though, is one of the best, if for no other reason than it is brought to us via Jon Stewart’s Daily Show: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Working Stiffed www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party [ Update: According to reports on file with the US Department of Labor, UFCW Local 711 spent $250,735 on "temprorary help" (picketers) in 2009, plus more than $30,000 on two "picket line supervisors."] It’s incredible that unions like the UFCW claim to have any credibility when they engage in the very tactics they accuse those “evil” corporations of engaging in. Nevertheless, one can assume that, despite the mud all over their glass abodes, today’s union bosses will continue throwing those stones. [h/t: Tabitha Hale ] __________________ “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 For more news and views on today’s unions, go to LaborUnionReport.com . The Concord Project: Fighting for Freedom in the Fall
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Another Fine Example of Union Hypocrisy
Promoted from the diaries by Caleb Diners at the RedState Gathering’s Saturday lunch (and it was a fine one) were treated to LaborUnionReport’s presentation on The Concord Project and a presentation on PROCINCT for those activists who intend to take a walk in the sunshine sometime before election day (or even after). It felt weird as hell clicking ‘Play’ before the audience on a video that starred…. me. But as many of us have been learning – that the most valuable posts are the ones we hesitate the most to click ‘Publish’ on – the videos we hesitate the most to make can be the most valuable to others. I almost didn’t make this video because I couldn’t find a cameraman and someone to stand in front of the camera. The people who came up to me afterwards made the counter-point clearly: that’s the point – you just go ahead and make it, then publish it. It’s a grassroots effort. People are charmed more by the fact that you just got it done than they are by Hollywood production values. As a matter of fact, perfect production values may make the message a little suspect sometimes. If you’ve ever said, “someone should make a video…” … well, it’s on you now. Get it done. Publish it. Share it. So what are The Five Tasks? In order. There will be a test. Flying back from Austin, I read most of Erick’s book Red State Uprising and finished it relaxing at home. Unlike many books written by the familiar talking heads and radio personalities, Erick actually gives solutions in his book, and gives examples of recent successes (such as CW’s in Maricopa County, AZ). That is what makes Erick’s book different and brilliant: his personal journey and his observations of the journeys of many at RedState.com inform his writing. No other writer has the ‘laboratory’ that Erick possesses to discover what actually works in changing our government and thus taking back our country. Get his book and read it. I can’t close without disclosing what a powerful experience the RedState Gathering was for me. Of course, there was the chance to put the names and handles with faces, and to renew acquaintences, but it was so much more than that. The folks who actually produce the gathering, Caleb Howe foremost among them, hold the event in such a high place that the quality of the event was continuously manifest. Quality ingredients, quality product. The people at RedState.com – all of them – obviously care a lot without making a big deal about it. They’ve obviously read their Sun Tzu.
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The Five Tasks Redux – It’s What’s for Lunch
