Well, at the risk of soundin' like the true cynic that I am, I hold very little faith that the American labor movement is in any position to jump start the war on poverty...

"Boss Hog" has hated the labor movement going back to the days of FDR and hasd made it his most single "cause" to cripple it... And, well, he's done a purdy good job of doing just that... The percentage of folks who are members of unions are at a 40 year low and unions have had to retreat from a position of power to one more of begging...

The hotel workers strike in California a few years back was, IMO, "Boss Hog's" day in ther sun as an American labor union succumbed to a negotiated "two tier" settlement which meant that younger and future workers wouldn't get squat... The older workers caved and went along with the idea... Yeah, they rolled their own children under the bus...

And over the last 10 or so years, outsourching has been the last coffin nail in the labor movement...

That's my take... So if anyone expects that this dieing movement is going to lead the charge on the war on poverty, I wouldn't bet the farm on it...

BTW, I will give credit where credit is due and "Boss Hog" has certainly put together one fine PR campaign to go along with his killing of all the true threats (Kennedy, Kennedy and King) to plans and where I hate him for doing what he has done to our country, I do have a healthy level of respect for his power to cahnge the course of current events...

I find it incredulaous that we are still reading the results of "Boss Hog's" misinformation campaign that was spun 30 years ago about the evils of unions??? Incredulous... Best PR cmapaign since the Repubs did the hatchet job on the word "liberal"...

And they say the media has a "liberal" bias...

Beam me up...

Bobert