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.

Yesterday, Nidal Hasan, a commissioned officer in the United States Army Medical Corps, was convicted of 45 counts related to a murderous rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.  This bastard son of an inbred Algerian goat rapist murdered 13 people, 12 of them soldiers who took the same oath as he did and wore the same uniform, and wounded 32 more.  Since then, it has come to light that he had been in regular communication with jihadist religious leaders overseas and had counseled soldiers under his care that they were to blame for their own injuries and troubles, and that their comrades that were killed in combat deserved what they got.

In the aftermath of the massacre, even after Hasan freely admitted that he committed the crime as part of a global jihad against us and those like us, the Obama administration and their uniformed lapdogs in the Pentagon have refused to call the deaths and injuries from the attack combat related.  By so doing, they are denying those who were harmed and the families of those who were killed benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.  This brings shame on all of us.

It is a national disgrace that the people that that jihadist piece of crap shot and their survivors aren’t being given the combat benefits that they so richly deserve. Here’s a hint: When the guy who shoots up the SRP facility freely admits to being an Islamist terrorist, that means that the people he hurt and killed were involved in combat, no matter where they happened to be.

Since the federal government has turned its back on them, the state of Texas is stepping up.  Rather than treat our wounded veterans and their widows and orphans like trash that needs to be hidden from public view, they are extending benefits to those who survived and the survivors of the fallen the same benefits in the state Veteran’s Land Bureau.  This will help them own a home and continue the lives that Hasan tried to destroy and that Obama and his ilk are ignoring.

Good on Texas for doing what’s right, even if the President and his toadies don’t have the guts to follow their example.  When we ignore those who pay the price for our defense, we cheapen their lives and discourage their efforts.  Hopefully President Obama changes his mind and his heart, but no matter what he and his cabal of weak-willed individuals do, it is up to us to do the right thing.