On Christmas Day Local AFL-CIO President Publishes Class Warfare Letter In SJR
December 25th, 2011On Christmas Day we were subjected to a class warfare letter from AFL-CIO President Terry Reed consisting of nothing more than left wing propaganda full of misrepresentations and falsehoods.
Quoting Terry Reed president, Springfield and Central Illinois Trades and Labor Council, AFL-CIO:
The partisan politics of the House Republicans backing their patrons, the wealthiest one percent, is a threat to the health of working people and the economic strength of our nation. [end quote]
This is patently false. The house passed a bill to extend benefits and tax holiday for a year. Guess 60 days is better than a year?
Obamacare prevents hiring due to cost uncertainty. Dodd Frank will cost 3.6 million jobs over three years. Keystone XL denied by Obama will cost up to 500,000 jobs. NLRB and Boeing, DOJ and AT&T-T-Mobile cost tens of thousands. EPA hundreds of thousands more. All examples of central planning that keeps millions in poverty and jobless.
On this Christmas Day as we celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace, the union boss stirs the embers of hate with his class warfare rhetoric which is nothing more than Obama’s campaign strategy. Divisiveness through class envy and misrepresentation to divert attention from the colossal failure of policy to allow economic recovery causing record numbers of Americans to live in poverty, on welfare, on food stamps, and suffer the longest periods of unemployment between jobs in history.
Quoting Reed:
These Republican lawmakers believe they can afford tax breaks for billionaires and bailouts for Wall Street, yet they deny Americans who are without jobs the chance at meager benefits to support their families. [end quote]
Mr. Reed it was Obama who extended the tax cuts for EVERYONE last year at this time recognizing raising taxes on anyone during a bad economy was bad policy. Why has that changed today? The lie is that these billionaires don’t pay their fair share when the top 10% of taxpayers pay 70% of all income taxes. The house did vote to extend benefits for a year, then caved to your pressure to lower it to 60 days.
Quoting Reed:
For many of the nearly two million people who will lose their benefits in January, the unemployment insurance is a vital lifeline that gives them a place to live and puts food on the table during the toughest job search of this generation. [end quote]
Pure socialist rhetoric appealling to emotional sentiments. Mr. Reed it is the policy of this administration you support that has these people unemployed. Instead of donating hundreds of millions in union dues in support of the radical anti-business administration why doesn’t the union contribute to the poor and unemployed?
Quoting Mr. Reed:
Tell Reps. Aaron Schock and John Shimkus they helped out the wealthy 1% and now it is time to show support for the 99% and extend unemployment benefits and create good paying jobs. [end quote]
Schock and Shimkus did vote to extend benefits for a year, you supported a temporary 60 day extension, and since when does extension of unemployment benefits create good paying jobs? Doesn’t it simply add more to government debt? This is merely a partisan attack to gain support for big government tax and spenders that have the economy depressed with their central planning.
Quoting Mr. Reed:
The two citizens who wrote with chalk on the outside of the congressman’s office committed no crime. They were supporting extension of the benefits. The real criminals have never been arrested. They are the Wall Street millionaires and billionaires who created this economic disaster we are in. [end quote]
Mr. Reed is merely promoting deceitful left wing propaganda. Wall Street did not commit the mess we are in. Government through the Community Reinvestment Act ordering banks to lower lending standards was the genesis of the meltdown. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac managed by Democratic operatives bundled trillions in bad mortgages they sold to Wall Street as triple A securities. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd blocked attempts to reign in the irresponsible agencies. Wall Street contributed to the mess after the fact, but did not create the mess. Politicians backed by unions did.
Unlike the union boss spreading class envy, class warfare, and divisivness on Christmas Day, I prayed for the salvation of America.
I pray the American people choose to return to our founding principles of limited government, individual liberty, a free market economy. The oppressive, progressive central planners implementing Obamacare, Dodd Frank, and radical environmental regulations smothering private industry must be lifted, repealed, and replaced if our children are to have a future free from the shackles of debt, and a return to prosperity.
We either have Obama, Wall Street crony capitalists, and union boss central planners picking winners and losers, or a return to free markets and the market determining winners and losers.
For American’s in 2012 the choice is stark; the tyranny of central planning, or individual freedom and prosperity possible only with limited government.
The opinions expressed here are solely those of Fritz Pfister or identified sources, and not necessarily those of RE/MAX Professionals of Springfield or RE/MAX International.
