First of all, on health care. The AFL-CIO leadership from its very inception and creation has always been a very selfish labor body eager to sell out the working class to get a few crumbs for its members. The AFL-CIO's think tank, the Campaign for America's Future, was used to destroy the single-payer movement... Roger Hickey and Robert Borosage both kept saying, along with their writers on their web site that they continued to support single-payer... anyone can look at the dialog I had with them on their web site--- they called me a liar for saying they were about to sell-out the single-payer movement when in fact Co-chair Roger Hickey had his book at the printers which stated the case for betraying single-payer even as their hacks were denying it.
Now, after selling out and betraying the entire working class, Trumka is crying that Obama and the Democrats want to tax their members' health care benefits... these class collaborationists never learn; or, more appropriately, they have been bought off for the purpose of betraying the entire working class.
Second, liberals, progressives and the left are still in a daze of confusion over Obama really thinking he intends to eventually do something for those other than Wall Street... I have never seen such delusional thinking.
We should be pushing to resolve this healthcare mess by bringing forward a socialized healthcare system which would create between six and ten-million new jobs. Socialized healthcare should be seen as creating jobs to solve the healthcare mess and it should be paid for with the funds saved from stopping these dirty imperialist wars.
Just as Sweeney and Trumka derailed the single-payer movement, Trumka is now setting out to try to prevent a real movement for jobs from developing. Again, labor should be pushing the best jobs creation program possible by fighting for socialized health care--- healthcare and jobs, not wars.
No healthcare, jobs and peace; no votes.
It is called "accountability."
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