Alternate title – Own it

Apparently the shine on the Obama presidency is rubbing off a bit, at least when it comes to America’s labor unions.  First, Obamacare is pushing employers to cut full-time positions to strictly part-time status, or eliminate them entirely.  People who have their hours cut in half or have their jobs erased don’t pay as much in union dues, now do they?  Second, President Obama decreed that we shall not create thousands of jobs in the mid-west, with many of them going to union labor, when he refused to authorize construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.  Those construction workers, teamsters, and manufacturers ought to be building windmills and unicorn feeding stations anyway.  And finally, his Department of Justice has filed suit to block the merger of American Airlines and US-Airways, which puts the continued competitiveness and survival of both companies in jeopardy.  Those highly unionized pilots, flight attendants, and pilots aren’t going to be paying into union coffers if their airlines go belly up.

So what we have is the most radically leftist administration in my lifetime thumbing its nose at those who put it in office.  Without the support of the labor unions, not only would Obama still be the least industrious Senator in our history, but most of the Democrat members of Congress who either swept in on his coat tails or held onto their jobs because of his victories would be out doing something more commensurate with their skills and work ethic, like sweeping up cigarette butts from the gutter.

And now that the unions have everything they asked for in two major elections, they’re complaining about the bite marks on their feeding hand.  For those of you who can see me writing this, the tears that are running down my face are from the grief I feel at their misfortune.

Oh, gee.  Oh, golly gosh darn.  How horrible that through their support of a naval gazing neophyte of a wind-up politician, they are now getting bitten right in the member(ship).  What will they do without all of those millions of dollars in dues that those who have their jobs either cut, eliminated, or never even created would have funneled into union coffers?

How absolutely sad it would be for the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, and SEIU to wake up and realize that they’ve been used in the same manner that I used to use baby wipes on Boo?

My advice to them is to look themselves in the mirror, admit that the bruises don’t come from falling down steps and walking into doors, and find a way to remove their attachment from their abuser.  They need to look deeply at their own actions and realize that their poor choices in politics led them to this circumstance, and they need to become more than the Pavlovian piggy bank and voting bloc of the Democrats.  I’m not under any illusions that they will become a truly apolitical organization that only supports politicians that have a track record of keeping their word and not hosing the American worker, but maybe, just maybe, they’ll take the time to examine whomever the Democrats pimp out in 2016 before the unions and their members step into their yokes for them.