I sit in a hotel room near our nation's capital and stare at the glowing monitor. I have my headphones on with the iPod set to shuffle so not to wake my wife's slumber. I'm not sure what this blog will contain, most likely politics and the state of our world as we all travel through.
I suppose I should start with what I know. I know that we live in one of the greatest countries in the world. I know that Americans are tough, hard working and always harness their ingenuity to tackle seemingly insurmountable odds. I know that if you're a worker, unions are the way to go, and something you will never regret.
You may ask how I'm so sure about the last statement, well I've been a union member for over seven years. Also my family has been in the Labor Movement for three generations. There have been tough and lean times, but we always came out on the other side ready to go to work, just like so many others. What pisses me off is when something goes wrong who is blamed....the Unions. Don't blame the men and women up in their ivory towers who mismanaged these companies, blame working people. Because the worker made these decisions that ran the company to the brink. And these people get rewarded with severance packages.....while working families receive a swift kick in the ass....
People act outraged about acts such as these, for about five minutes.....but then something else captures their attention. Why that scumbag Blankenship isn't in jail is beyond me....those worker's blood is on his hands!!! And we're outraged......and nothing happens, he is allowed to continue to mistreat the worker. The latest slap in the face is telling his workers that if they take time off to go to their friend's funerals, they will be fired...disgusting. And certain commentators ask, "Where were the unions during all this?" They asked the question, but what they didn't do is research the fact that the Union was forced out in 1982. If they were union, this more than likely wouldn't have happened and those men would still be alive.
I love this country, but our priorities are so skewed. So many refuse to fight for what is right and just. Yet if Conan O'Brien gets wronged, a Facebook group is formed and over a million people join it. And they have rallies over why it was wrong...Don't get me wrong I think it was a load of bull what happened to Conan, but the point is that people will rally and get behind something like this, but when it comes to what really matters. Most would rather put their blinders back on and continue to watch American Idol.
I suppose that's all for now....
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