Donald Kaul Labor Day thoughts

[IADEMO2004]

http://www.otherwords.org/articles/the_rich_are_raking_it_in_so_where_are_the_jobs

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I do know this. My father spent his life working in tool and die factories in and around Detroit. My mother worked, on and off, in dress shops. They were able to own their own home, send their son to a fine university, and give him a few extra bucks when he was struggling to raise a family of his own early in his career. My father even had a boat that he dragged around on a trailer. When they retired, they moved to Florida.

It wasn't a lavish life, but it was a good one, made possible in part by the fact he worked in a union town and a unionized industry.

It's a life, I'm afraid, that isn't going to be available to lower-middle-class kids entering a non-unionized workforce today. Certainly not if Republican lawmakers have their way.

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There is no such thing as rich enough I guess.

[progressoid]

1. Love Donald Kaul.

I never get a chance to read him anymore. Thanks. I'm passing this on to a few friends.

Maybe you should post this elsewhere in DU for a wider audience? :shrug:

[SomeGuyInEagan]

2. Grew up reading Kaul in the DMR.

Great writing, great insight, great voice for us.

[Bluzmann57]

3. He's correct

That is why we absolutely must stand up to these corporate bullies (for lack of a better term) and fight. I mean if we have to roll around in the gutter with them, we must. Kick, scratch, gouge, whatever it takes. Save our Unions. Save our future.

[47of74]

4. When people on our side whine about having to get down in the gutter...

...I am reminded of this quote from Mississippi Burning

"These people crawled out of the SEWERS, Mr. Ward! Maybe the gutter is the place we have to be!"

[IADEMO2004]

5. One more Mississippi Burning quote

Don't you go confusin' me with some whole other body. You must have your brains in your *dick* if you think we're gonna just walk away from this. We're gonna stay 'till this gets done.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095647/quotes