[TheRealThing]

^^ I despise, therefore I am.


I will never understand why the left has so much support among common Democrats. Since the days of FDR, the single greatest aligning factor between the middle class and the Democrat Party has been their shared commitment to fostering the well being of labor, specifically union labor. The benefits of which are supposed to trickle down to all those who work with their hands, union or not. Unions took tremendous loses under the last administration, there is no question about that. The only question as I alluded to above, is why as at the same time their bank accounts are bouncing off the zero mark, that the rank and file continue to believe Dems are their saviors? I don't get it.

This week a Republican President met with labor heads from across the land representing of every category. All of those leaders emerged extremely optimistic about the support Mr Trump will extend to labor. So straighten me out here, since labor has been on it's ear for 8 years owing to a floundering US economy, ghost town manufacturing and energy sectors, a Trillion dollar trade deficit, and non-existent construction projects which support the building trades, what are you so concerned about?

Build American/buy American doesn't sound so bad to me. Nor does a trillion dollar infrastructure investment (that will actually go to infrastructure), the return of US auto manufacturing jobs, hundreds of thousands of truck driving jobs, a revived energy sector, and all the rest. It is way past time for labor to realize that supply and demand drives the engine of the American middle class, not tough sounding union rhetoric, contracts, and the threat of strike. I am all for union labor and collective bargaining but in the absence of work, contracts and bargaining cannot take the place of that phone call asking a union brother to report for work.