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Thread #136266   Message #3110903
Posted By: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
10-Mar-11 - 02:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: The US worker revolution has begun
Subject: RE: BS: The US worker revolution has begun
Donuel: "The irony here is that the illegal repub vote to disband collective bargaining took place on the birthday of FDR's New Deal."

FDR was also opposed to the public employees unionizing...So was George Meany, First top guy of the AFL-CIO.

So far as the federal public unions go, I remember a comedian, named Dick Shawn, who commented on this song, that, at the time, "....everybody thought was so 'heavy'..but not really. When everybody acted like it was a 'cosmic flash', most five year old's already knew this   .

GfS