Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Citizens United Supreme Court Decision
January 21, 2010

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The accusations and rumors that Joe Stack was some angry right wing "teabagger" are already flying fast and furious around the intertubes. Now, unless the Tea Party(ers) have been going off about the need for healthcare, the evils of religion, the evils of Corporate America...well, we all know that in the minds of the hard left, wishing makes it so. A few excerpts...

Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it's time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country's leaders don't see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political "representatives" (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the "terrible health care problem". It's clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don't get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.

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I 've come to a conclusion, a resolution if you will, now that I've entered my 40th lap around the sun - Piss Off a Muslim at least once a day. Being that this is one of many avenues that I can drive that truck down, let's kick it off correctly - Fuck You Mohammed and the little boy's dick you rode in on.

      This may seem pointless, but no, it isn't. You see, from where I sit there are a number of umbrages that Islam takes with me and my lifestyle, and I throw it back in Islam's lap. You see, I have a giant hard-on for strong women, history and it's relics, pork products and booze. Islam seems to have a violent reaction to these things and the practices that I call my day-to-day...so be it. If Islam disrespects me and my ways, I return the favor - FUCK YOU MOHAMMED! Take issue with that? Good.

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In the midst of the panapoly of Holiday concerns, I ask you all to consider someone else for the moment, a moment. There is someone in your life that is feeling a heightened sense of dread and mortality right now, and I ask that you reach out to them. Put aside your petty bitchces and moans for a moment – a friend is considering suicide for the season. Who is it? I don’t know. It’s up to you, look for those who have nothing or have fallen on hard times recently – reach out. Save a life.  

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Am I the only one who sees the fall of the Berlin Wall as a 'rope-a-dope' of the most grand scale?  End of Communism my ass...

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Lemme get this straight...an Army Major walks onto an Army base and starts killing Army soldiers. Why isn't this a case, no matter the motives, that goes straight to a military court where the guy is brought up on charges and most likely put up against a cinder block wall, blindfolded and offered a last cigarette? What is there to debate? Why is this an issue to be discussed and examined over and over and over and over? Why does this need to be transformed into an episode of 'infotainment'?

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    Lets pay a game called "Hippies or Nazis?" I'll describe a behavior and you tell me if its a practice of hippies or Nazis...

                Having the children dance around the May Pole in celebration.

GO!.....

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    If Nancy Pelosi were to actually shed a tear, that made it all the way out of the duct, would a HAZMAT team need to be called to contain the biohazard?

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    With the statements and actions of our current administration, am I the only one seeing this crowd as nothing more than, and about as effective as, a clot of coffee house revolutionaries? I mean really now, constantly asking for other peoples money to give themselves things they can't afford, extolling the virtues and wisdom of communist dictators, constantly asserting that no one else could ever imagine the special hardships and injustices they've lived through and seen, (so just shut the fuck up, dude) they have all the theoretical answers to all of humanities ills while ignoring the practices and proofs of history (If only if!), they drive the car that daddy bought them to the protest where they demonize the ways and means of the generation that gave them everything they have to begin with...dude, my girl needs a latte, too...

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This administration or their adherents/proponents?

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    This gives me the heebie-jeebies, a cold tingle down the back of the neck...

An Excerpt-

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How do 'you' define 'culture' ?

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So I, like many, am watching this health care debate, reading, talking to people, etc...here's something that I've noticed, a simple observation.

It strikes me that those who are screaming the loudest in support of this sweeping overhaul of how we treat the sick and dying in this country are the ones with little to no support structures in place in their personal lives. Those with support structures and mechanisms are really pissed off that a vociferous minority wants to scrap everything that those who have support structures have worked to put together.

Bitterness, anger, loneliness, spite and desperation are strong 'motivators' for the have-nots. A state of enraged dementia that the 'Progressive' is eager to seize upon and manipulate in the effort to acquire and maintain their power. Much in the same manner that gangs use parental abandonment as a recruiting tool.

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    Prohibition was repealed. If this heath care fiasco is rammed down our throats, we DO have recourse. The damned thing doesn't kick in till 2013. Let 'em stick a hot poker up the ass of the populace. Let 'em lose their jobs.

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100 K for a household is nothing phenomenal, I'll call it comfortably middle-class. Go ahead, argue with me on that....

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Let's play a game of connect-the-dots, here. This is a game for everyone. I'm struck by the way that there is this lack of strategic thinking (or when strategic thinking is applied it is dismissed as 'conspiratorial') in the arguments that we have today. Legislation does not exist in a bubble, it is not mutually exclusive. So why are the debates? Let's start with H.R 3200. Now folks can argue the merits or lack thereof contained in this Bill on the basis of heath care reform, but how does it fit into the larger scope of control over the populace...

To get a labor contract with a government agency, one must be a 'union shop'. When the government runs any and all things healthcare related, does this mean that every company that provides health services on a primary, secondary and tertiary level unionize or lose the ability to do business?

Now it's your turn...

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