Union Bosses: TEA Party is Attacking the American Dream

On August 30, 2011 there was a small SEIU protest outside of Congressman Charlie Dent’s office. A couple of union bosses made some dire predictions to the protestors about the upcoming elections in 2012 comparing our political climate to battles of the Civil War (or depending on how you look at it, War Between the States. We don’t play favorites here. The war still happened no matter what you call it.).

At the forefront was Edward Balukus who uses the TEA Party and corporations as scapegoats for the current economic climate instead of placing blame where it belongs. Below is a transcript and video embedded.

Edward Balukus President UAW Local 677:

Everybody believe in the American dream? You’ve got to be asleep to believe it, because we’re under attack. The greatest redistribution of wealth in the history of this country, they’re taking it over. They’re convicing Americans we had our Antietam, our bloodiest day in American war…

Our Antietam was the last election. We had a bloodbath and corporations are winning. 96 freshman at the end of which are TEA Party members and they’re against all of you. They’re against workers. They’re against retirees. They’re against the middle class. All they want to is increase the amount of money that the rich and the corporations get. How is it possible to have equal sacrifice when GE makes $14 billion?…

This next election is our Gettysburg and if we don’t stop them here we are doomed, done. There is nobody to pick up the flag…This election is it. Get everybody out to vote. You’re going to have to get your mothers-in-laws, your cousins, your aunts, your uncles, people you don’t like. I don’t care but we gotta get them out, we gotta mobilize, we gotta take it back, because they’re taking it from us.

The last 80 years, unions, the middle class, they made this country. Our national defense, really, was based on our economy. Without jobs here we can’t even afford our national defense. We’re going to outsource that too and then the Chinese will come here to protect us. This is where we’re going. It’s nuts. We’re going to have to do something about it. I hope you are all behind it. I hope you are all motivated… Every time there is something bring somebody out to it. But more important get people to vote because this is it. This is our Gettysburg. Take it home and wrap it around you. Wrap that flag around. We got to take America back. Thank you.

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vmelangham

Ahhhhh! The sweet sounds of an illiterate and undereducated dyed-in-the wool in a panic about where his future fortunes lay… full of bombast, he declares that the UNION is the MIDDLE CLASS (intimating to those who do not think outside the flash-mob mentality will believe that, literally the union of these United States is the representative middle class); what he really means is that the distinction (or lack of it) will not be understood by those whom his hapless diatribe targets… the union workers.
It is not my intent to put down the importance that the trade unions in America is to be forgotten… they helped our nation grow by leaps and bounds in their day by forcing big business into recognizing the basic human rights of their employees and caused the workers' overall health benefits, job safety, and retirement benefits to become a reality. The problem is that in so doing they (the union organizers and committees that run them) have substantially overstepped their original intent with respect to jobs and became a fundamentally unsound organization that wants to direct the nation's politics… haughty now and drunken with the coffers of tons of money gleaned from their members dues, they wage a protracted war against any political party that will not cave in to their demands…. it was the union bosses that have illegally and inappropriately funded the incumbent who sits daily in the Oval Office and proscribes regulatory restraints upon corporations, strangling them into submission to what few workers they can afford to keep being – you got it, union men.
I think back on the years I was engaged in the building industry and what powers I faced up against in my desire to become the very best carpenter that I could possibly be…. at every step I literally did a little side-move to avoid becoming an extension of a group that demanded monthly dues in order to ply my trade "in their town"…. offering as a reward for years of paying into their scheme a floral arrangement for my funeral.. nothing more. I believed then as I do now that the era in which the massive power the unions was a necessity is over and has only sunken to the stature of an albatross around the neck of the American citizenry… eliciting only flash-mob rule, uncivil encounters with those who oppose them, and their bloated thirst for further expansion into government control by assisting in the takeover by a socialist system not envisioned by our Founders. It is the time for honest and hard working men and women across the land to recognize that their personal sovereignty, their individualism is not only challenged by the bosses of labor but negated altogether by their superimposed decision-making process that determines their allegiances to either one form of government or the other… by default they have given over their voting privileges to a wild card (whomever those bosses decide upon)… so ultimately these thugs determine (or will if allowed to continue) the sovereignty of our nation…. under what banner we fly (are we to be a genuine Republic or just another failed democracy..as all democracies have historically collapsed from the burdens placed upon government by its own citizenry – the gimme gimme gimme crowd).
So it is my hope that all those that are called upon by this tiny tyrant to change the minds and hearts of their living relatives to vote the union ticket will continue to retain their individualism (the true source of America's strength) and turn a deaf ear to such rantings of a desperate man afraid for his own future ventures and capital accumulation, not theirs – for which he and his ilk have not a thing in common.