...anyways...
Lets get back to talking about labor unions and collective bargaining...
I'll start with a few quotes from a couple of our founding fathers followed by quotes from a fascist Right Wing Neo Con dictator whose rhetoric sounds exactly the same as what Romney and his supporters are saying...
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government."~ Thomas Jefferson
"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ~ Abraham Lincoln
"All that harms labor is treason to America." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"It was working men and women who made the 20th century the American century. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label." ~ President Barack Obama, speech at Laborfest, September 6, 2010
...the other side...
"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood." ~ Adolf Hitler
""It (the trade union) created the economic weapon which the international world Jew uses for the ruination of the economic basis of free, independent states, for the annihilation of their national industry and of their national commerce, and thereby for the enslavement of free people in the service of the above-the-state- standing, world finance Jewry." ~ Adolf Hitler
...and how does Mitt Romney's views of labor unions relate to Hitlers views on labor unions?...
here's a video of his plans for unions...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JepSVdOa ... _embedded#!
...and these are Romney's plans if elected...
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades released a video on Monday that gathers together all of Mitt Romney's anti-union statements during the 2012 campaign. He covers a lot of ground. If elected, he said he would:
•End preference for unionized companies in government contracting.
•End project labor agreements.
•Fight to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.
•Make sure that workers have a "secret ballot" (Something they already have, of course, but this is coded language for opposing the Employee Free Choice Act).
•Fight for right-to-work (for less) laws.
•Oppose "card check."
•Undercut the ability of the National Labor Relations Board to do its job.
•Prevent unions from being able to spend member dues on political activity without the express approval of the individual members.
Most of these things he says he'd do on "Day One" and would do via executive order, usurping the role of the legislative branch in some of these actions. If anyone is still wondering why unions are lining up behind Barack Obama despite the fact that they've had some disagreements and friction with him, look no further than Mitt Romney's own words as to why.
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