Via a Facebook posting put up late last night, Sarah Palin is reaching out to Union members with a message of wisdom:
The union-led school closures and demonstrations in Madison have left most ordinary Americans shaking their heads in disbelief. Months ago, I penned a message to my fellow union brothers and sisters when I found myself on the receiving end of union boss Richard Trumka's wrath. Yesterday's demonstrations reminded me of the full-page ads taken out against me when I put my foot down in dealing with union demands while I served as governor. My message then and now to good union brothers and sisters is that you have another option. You don't have to kowtow to the union bosses who are not looking out for you, but instead are using you. You can join millions of other union members in a commonsense movement to help fight for the right causes in our great country - for budgets that share the burden in a truly fair way and for commonsense reforms that take power away from vested interests like union bosses and big business lobby groups, and put it back where it belongs - with "We the People."
Here we are still struggling to get out of a deep recession and coping with high unemployment, record deficits, rapidly rising food prices, and a host of other economic problems; and Wisconsin union bosses want union members out in the streets demanding that taxpayers foot the bill for unsustainable benefits packages. I am a friend to hard working union members and to teachers. I come from a family of teachers; my grandparents, parents, brother, sister, aunt, and other relatives worked, or still work, in education. My own children attend public schools. I greatly admire good teachers and will always speak up in defense of the teaching profession. But Wisconsin teacher unions do themselves no favor by closing down classrooms and abandoning children's needs in protest against the sort of belt-tightening that people everywhere are going through. Union brothers and sisters: this is the wrong fight at the wrong time. Solidarity doesn't mean making Wisconsin taxpayers pay for benefits that are not sustainable and affordable at a time when many of these taxpayers struggle to hold on to their own jobs and homes. Real solidarity means everyone being willing to sacrifice and carry our share of the burden. It does no one any favors to dismiss the sacrifices others have already had to make--in wage cuts, unpaid vacations, and even job losses--to weather our economic storm.
Hard working, patriotic, and selfless union brothers and sisters: please don't be taken in by the union bosses. At the end of the day, they're not fighting for your pension or health care plan or even for the sustainability of Wisconsin's education budget. They're fighting to protect their own powerful privileges and their own political clout. The agenda for too many union bosses is a big government agenda that only serves the union bosses themselves - not union members, not union families, and certainly not the larger community. Everybody else is just there to foot the bill; and if that bill eventually takes the form of thousands of teachers and other public sector workers losing their jobs because the state of Wisconsin can no longer afford to keep them on the payroll, that's a risk the union bosses are willing to take as long as their positions are secure. Union brothers and sisters: you are better than this and you deserve better. Don't be led astray.
She finishes with a warning we should all heed.
Juxtapose her words with Obama's actions, as described by Speaker of the House John Boehner:
Speaker John Boehner Friday accused President Barack Obama and his political apparatus for "inciting" protests in Wisconsin's captal, saying that the president is trying to "demagogue reform-minded governors."
Boehner was referencing Obama's deployment of his political operation, Organizing for America, to Wisconsin, where public-sector workers are protesting Gov. Scott Walker's plan to strip them of collective bargaining rights.
Make no mistake. Obama is following the playbook. His radical roots are manifesting themselves in spades. He is agitating the masses to further his agenda.
I can't see this ending well because there's no quit in radical leftism.
Gird your loins America.



Comments (12)
Barry is good at organizing... (Below threshold)1. Posted by 914 | February 19, 2011 12:05 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Barry is good at organizing angst, but has never met a budget or created a worthwhile job. He should have kept his mouth shut on Arizona just like Wisconsin. He is disgraceful.
1. Posted by 914 | February 19, 2011 12:05 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on February 19, 2011 12:05
2. Posted by RefudiateObama2012 | February 19, 2011 12:10 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
This morning at the White House:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkdqasetNgk
2. Posted by RefudiateObama2012 | February 19, 2011 12:10 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on February 19, 2011 12:10
3. Posted by GarandFan | February 19, 2011 12:17 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Barry has only one priority SAVE THE UNIONS, SAVE THE POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS!
3. Posted by GarandFan | February 19, 2011 12:17 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 19, 2011 12:17
4. Posted by Trump | February 19, 2011 3:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I can't see this ending well because there's no quit in radical leftism.
Gird your loins America.
>>>> Eh. If it comes to violence, so be it.
4. Posted by Trump | February 19, 2011 3:26 PM |
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Posted on February 19, 2011 15:26
5. Posted by WildWillie | February 19, 2011 4:49 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
This is yet another example of a huge majority to americans disagree with Obama's stand. He just doesn't care about the people. Just his protections. ww
5. Posted by WildWillie | February 19, 2011 4:49 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on February 19, 2011 16:49
6. Posted by dnb | February 19, 2011 5:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Isn't the term 'spades' considered racist?
6. Posted by dnb | February 19, 2011 5:04 PM |
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Posted on February 19, 2011 17:04
7. Posted by Bruce Henry | February 19, 2011 6:15 PM | Score: -7 (9 votes cast)
"Agitating the masses to further a political agenda," huh? Horrors!
What do you call the Tea Party?
7. Posted by Bruce Henry | February 19, 2011 6:15 PM |
Score: -7 (9 votes cast)
Posted on February 19, 2011 18:15
8. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | February 19, 2011 6:26 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Yeah, that Sarah Palin is sooooo stooopid. Yuk yuk yuk.
8. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | February 19, 2011 6:26 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on February 19, 2011 18:26
9. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | February 19, 2011 8:08 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
What do you call the Tea Party?
Largely polite. Increasingly fed up with DC. Considerate enough to book their protests in advance and to clean up after themselves.
9. Posted by SCSIwuzzy | February 19, 2011 8:08 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on February 19, 2011 20:08
10. Posted by Les Nessman | February 19, 2011 9:15 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"9. Posted by SCSIwuzzy "
Zing! Too true.
She sure knows how to write a good FB posting, doesn't she? Gets under the right peoples skins and lives in their heads.
10. Posted by Les Nessman | February 19, 2011 9:15 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on February 19, 2011 21:15
11. Posted by Les Nessman | February 19, 2011 10:54 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
"What do you call the Tea Party?"
Showing up on Saturday when they are off work.
Not faking sick days during the week when they should be working. Not abandoning the children in their care. Not fleeing to another state so they can abdicate their legislative obligations that they swore on a Bible to uphold.
Hey, these comparisons are fun! Wanna keep going? The moochers are looking less and less sympathetic.
11. Posted by Les Nessman | February 19, 2011 10:54 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on February 19, 2011 22:54
12. Posted by 914 | February 20, 2011 2:11 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"What do you call the Tea Party?"
America!
"What do you call the democrat party?"
Traitors!
12. Posted by 914 | February 20, 2011 2:11 AM |
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Posted on February 20, 2011 02:11