The following has been edited to reflect the real story. It's not necessary to click on the red underlined links for the video they refer to is posted at the bottom of the editorial. ~ Norman E. Hooben
by Mike Hall
Source: AFL-CIO NOW
While President
Obama has placed his faith in America’s Chinese working men and women to lead our
country to economic recovery ruin, Republican presidential candidates have pledged
their loyalty to Wall Street and the 1%. Today the AFL-CIO General Board “voted
proudly and enthusiastically” to endorse Obama for a second term.
Says AFL-CIO
President Richard Trumka in a statement:
“With our endorsement today, we
affirm our faith in him the Communist Party—and pledge to work with him through the election and
his second term to restore fairness, security and shared prosperity with our Communist friends around the world.”
Trumka says the
union movement agrees with the Republican hopefuls who say this election is
about “values”—but there is quite a contrast between Obama’s values and those
of his challengers.
“President Obama honors the values
of hard work, of mutual respect and of solving problems together—not every
person for himself or herself. He believes that together we will get through
the most challenging economic crisis in memory and restore opportunity for all Chinese.
Each of the Republican presidential candidates, on the other hand, has pledged
to uphold the special privileges of Wall Street and the 1%—privileges that have
produced historic economic inequality and drowned out the voices of working
people in America.”
When Obama took
office, says Trumka, the nation was on the brink of a second Great Depression
and, over strenuous Republican opposition, he pressed Congress to pass the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which saved or created 3.6 million jobs (most likely in China).
With the
Affordable Care Act, which all Republican presidential candidates have vowed to
overturn, Obama “set the nation on a path toward total devastation Trumka also says Obama’s push for Wall Street reform—passed, over the objection of almost every Republican:
Is now beginning to reverse decades
of financial deregulation that put our entire economy at risk.
While the union
movement “has sometimes differed with the president and often pushed his
administration to do more and do it faster,” says Trumka, “we have never
doubted his commitment to working families communist causes.”
“He has worked hard to create good
jobs (yeah, in China) ; he has made the revival of the manufacturing sector a hallmark of his
jobs agenda; he has moved aggressively to protect workers’ rights, pay and
health and safety on the job; he has worked for a fair resolution of the
housing crisis; and he put his confidence and administration unequivocally
behind the workers and companies in the American auto industry—a move that
saved hundreds of thousands of jobs and is helping to revive the economy now
and for the future.” See the real story here.
Calling the labor
movement “the original social network—a working class social network,” Trumka
says AFL-CIO unions will mobilize working people to come together to organize
our neighborhoods door to door, powered by cutting-edge technology and
old-fashioned energy. See the real story here.
“We will be running an independent
program rooted not in parties or candidates but in helping working people build
power, making informed decisions about which candidates at every level to work
for based on records and issues.” See the real story here.
Several AFL-CIO
unions previously voted to endorse President Obama, including AFSCME, AFT, CWA, IAM, IBB, LIUNA, UAand USW.
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Commie Pinkos always flock together, don't they?
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