Uh Oh, Commie Trumka Unhappy With Obama Over Columbia Free Trade Deal
Last month, the AFL-CIO endorsed Obama, quieting all the talk about any rift or lingering differences between the President and organized labor. Many Dems hope enthusiastic union support will help Obama limit losses among blue collar whites in the swing states — something that could prove decisive in the 2012 election.
Those hopes may have hit another snag: That rift has cracked open a bit once again.
In an interview just now, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka ripped into Obama for taking a key step this weekend towards the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement — which Trumka claimed would have domestic political ramifications for Obama. Trumka said continuing betrayal of labor would make it harder to turn out supporters this fall and was already muddying Obama’s efforts to draw a sharp contrast with Mitt Romney over who represents the 99 percent.
“The more these things happen, where workers interests are subjugated to other interests, it has a cumulative effect, making it harder for us to energize our members and get them out in the numbers necessary in the fall,” Trumka told me.
“The candidates have to decide whether they represent the 99 percent or the one percent,” Trumka continued. “Each time this happens, it obscures the clearness with which the president represents the 99 percent.”
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STU~PWCM~JLA~POTL~AFCL 2012/04/17 02:15:49
+16Trumka is nothing but a money whore. All he cares about is union dues. If we want to maximize world GNP, we have to let capital flow to where it is most productive for each specific product. That means free trade (absence of tariffs), except in cases where tariffs are required for retaliatory reasons (i.e., a country is imposing tariffs against the US). Dick Trumka is a violent, selfish, piece of garbage. He cares nothing about the workers he claims to represent; he just wants to line his wallets with skimmed dues and use a portion of it to bribe Congress to pass laws that make him even richer. The man is a total POS.
He saw an opportunity, to get a really cool job and went for it.
While most of what he is doing seems ridiculous, it's also entirely possible that he knows stuff that we are not privy to and is acting accordingly.
It could also be he is just grabbing everything he can, because after the White house, what's next? Lock up the silver...
It could be that everything we see is just multi-distractions to keep us off balance...
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But EVEN if he didn't,, Being a "Friend" to a Democrat lasts ONLY as long as you are USEFUL to them.. AFter THAT,, YOU are on your OWN...
ROFLMAO..
BORROWING.. WE don't HAVE it.. We HAVE to BORROW it to SPEND it......
Israel is an ALLY.. It beats the HELL out of sending a billion Dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood or North Korea..
And NOBODY cares what you do or do NOT want as far as Israel is concerned.. Most AMERICANS want America to STAND by it's FRIENDS and QUIT giving aid and comfort to America's ENEMIES such as THIS President has become well known for..
NO more aid the the Muslim Brotherhood.. NO more aid to North Korea and NO more GUNS being SUpplied to AMerica's enemies amassed on the SOuthern AMerican Border..
I'll tell you exactly what Left Wingers tell everybody when they don't like something.. MOVE to EGYPT or North Korea..