Mourning in America: Death of the Middle Class

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/mourning-in-america-death_b_784341.html

 

My response:

 

This point of view has been stated over and over again in progressive circles... I think what working people want to hear from Leo Gerard is that he is going to lead the USW and push the AFL-CIO to join the international working class struggles (Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Philippines, South Korea, China, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico) now taking place against these austerity measures being put in place by President Obama and the Democrats he helped to elect... 75% of whom were backed, not only by him and the AFL-CIO, but Wall Street, too.

As I traveled across Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan meeting with rank-and-file working class activists in the weeks leading up to the Mid-term elections, I was surprised to find state and local Chamber of Commerce's and state and local unions supporting the same Democrats.

I am still trying to figure out how the same politician can support the members of the Chamber of Commerce while working on behalf of union members... can someone explain this to me?

Check this out (I could provide many more such examples):

http://www.royschmidt.org/endorsements/

Worse yet, this guy, Roy Schmidt, is a racist bigot who VIOLENTLY opposed school busing for integration and here we even have members of the NAACP endorsing him--- no doubt for the same reason as labor; because he claims to be a Democrat... even though when he first decided to run he intended to run as a Republican until he figured it out the district was heavily Democratic voters.

What we are getting from Leo Gerard and this broad coalition cobbled together under the guise of defending Social Security are good sounding statements but no united action.

Gerard has people very confused; first he exhorts working people to elect these very people now intent on giving us the shaft; and now he laments the fact Social Security is coming under attack... kind of like handing the butcher the knife and then being surprised he does the job so well.

Ironically, Gerard fails to point out that the Cat Food Commission was brought into being by Barack Obama for the sole purpose of undermining Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare--- the same candidate Gerard endorsed and pumped so much money into... just like Bernie Madoff did!