Screwing unions better than Bush: "Change you can believe in"

Below is a comment from a person named Mitch on this Mother Jones post. Mitch gets it like only a good old fashioned FDR/Truman liberal can. I love this comment.


Mitch's comment:


Screwing unions better than Bush: "Change you can believe in"?

Submitted by Mitch on March 30, 2009 - 6:18pm.

The one constant in the Obama administration's treatment of these different industries is an extraordinary amount of protectiveness towards corporate executives and an equally extraordinary disdain towards workers, particularly blue collar union workers.

I could not help noticing that all of the "shared sacrifices" involved in saving GM will be shared by the taxpayers, shareholders, bond holders, and, of course, the silly little blue collar workers who pathetically cling to their middle class existence yet do all the actual manufacturing.

Naturally, Obama does not require top executives of GM to participate in the aforementioned "shared sacrificing" and "haircuts" by having their generous health care benefits and multi-million dollar retirement plans "renegotiated" because of the inviolability of (non-union) contracts. Silly little workers. Silly little people who work with their dirty hands. Silly little people who always worked hard, believed in the system and played by the rules all their lives. Silly little people who built this country. Silly little workers who vote a solid Democratic ticket and supported Obama. So silly: Should've gone to Harvard or Yale, and then maybe into finance or journalism.

This is change only in the sense that he is giving better speeches than Bush. Screwing taxpayers, shareholders, bondholders out of their money and workers out of their money, jobs, health care and retirement isn't exactly what I'd call “change you can believe in".

Mitch