The head of the AFL-CIO charged in Charlotte tonight that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney “doesn’t know a thing about hard work or responsibility.”
“Our economy works best when it works for everyone, not just the select few,” union boss Richard Trumka told the DNC. “And our history teaches us that shared prosperity is the only kind that lasts and we will have that under Barack Obama.”
Trumka said President Obama and Vice President Biden “have put the country on the right path towards jobs and shared prosperity despite the obstruction they face from a dishonest, politically motivated, economically challenged Republican Majority in Congress.”
“Prosperity requires democracy starting with the essential right of everyone in this great country to a voice, both at the ballot box and at the workplace; the right to solve problems together; and to climb the ladder to the middle-class the old fashioned way, through hard work, fairly rewarded,” he said.
“We face a choice in November between division and decline, between unity and growth, we love our country. We built it. We defend it. We wake it up each morning. Make it run all day. We fix it when it’s broke; we put it to bed at night.”
“And our history teaches us that shared prosperity is the only kind that lasts and we will have that under Barack Obama.”
Well, we certainly have shared misery.
“We face a choice in November between division and decline, between unity and growth, we love our country. We built it. We defend it. We wake it up each morning. Make it run all day. We fix it when it’s broke; we put it to bed at night.”
“As long as the union rules allow us to. And if we aren’t on strike.”
Mr. Trumka, you didn’t build that. Heed your boss!
I really can’t understand what Trumka has against wanting to get rid of Obama. I thought that, in times of economic downturn, “last-hired, first-fired” was a cardinal union principle?
Will no-one rid me of this rabid guinea pig?
– actually dug some coal? Law school is dirty work.
Trumka, what do YOU know about hard work? As a former member of the AFT, some of my money paid your salary. My question is, in what way did you benefit me? I was already making more than the contractual salary, so in fact even the local union had essentially no impact on me.
Why does this bastard even draw breath? The world wonders.
“Our economy works best when it works for everyone”
Which with Democrats and their client groups all too often turns into “everyone works for me.”
Curious to know how much Trumka makes. Curious to know what kind of a house he lives in. Curious to know if he drives his own car or if he has a “provided” car with a driver. Hey Pot, are you calling the kettle black??
Trumka, in translation: “I’m bought and paid for with money borrowed from the Chinese, and I like it that way.”
What a tool.
Richard Trumka of the AFL/CIO and Andy Stern of the SEIU are card-carrying international communists. You can check it out on Bing! Bing-O!