Is Trumka coming to NJ to receive an award from an American Communist Party, like he did in Conn. recently or is he just attending the rally? Don't you union rank and file understand your Marxist leadership has hijacked your union, its coffers and the union movement? Do you have any understanding of history where the dictatorial communists seized the unions to further their disgusting aims? Until you toss these un-American, social misfits the Tea Party and the majority of American citizens will oppose you at every turn. Wake up dammit. Don't you see what is being done to you, our nation and your unions? After the 2012 elections the victorious Tea Party Movement will neuter the public service unions and you will have no one but yourselves to blame. Any violence you espouse will only harden our resolve.
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Middle class wages in this country peaked, coincidentally, around the time of peak union membership. The manufacturing jobs that have flocked to Southeast Asia successfully busted a massive group of blue-collar middle class unions in the private sector.
Pension funds were trashed by irresponsible leveraging in the financial sector that led to a worldwide financial collapse, and the investment of state pensions proved disastrous. The state was unable to make up the deficit by adequately funding these pensions in the wake of that collapse. The effect? With a lack of growth, the pensions funds of every state became depleted.
Now, we are blaming the very VICTIMS of this crisis, the workers who have painstakingly compiled these resources who placed their trust in the State and the financial industry. We are going to pay for the subsidizing of criminally negligent banks with the only surplus capital the middle class has left.