Why You Should Care, This About Your Pension, not Politics.

   My local union leadership, instead of participating in a discussion and rebuttal of what I have said here, has instead decided to try and discredit me as “crazy”.  That’s okay I guess it shows just how weak their position is.

  To my brothers and sisters who have privately supported me, thank you for your concern. I am fine. I ask please however that you not be intimidated by this tactic, as I am not.  I am a professional and I come to work every day and do my job to the best of my ability. I simply disagree with what my union is doing, and for that they are trying to destroy my reputation. So be it, I am undeterred. 

    I am not asking you to believe me; I am not trying to convince you that I am right. I am trying to get you to pay attention to what is happening. I am trying to convince you that the your very future stability, your financial stability is at stake.  Please do not just watch the video on my website, take the time to read my post “Are Our Pensions Stable?” it explains what I m talking about, and how this directly affects you.

     They try and say I am crazy for pointing out that as union members we are standing with socialist and communist. I am not saying we support them, as some of us do. I am saying that they are supporting us. If you agree with socialist and communist principals by all means speak your mind, say it out in the open, lets have that debate. If you do not, you must speak up, not to speak is to speak, you lend not only tacit but actual support to these movements with our union dues. For those of you who do not think this happening, just last week we were asked by our union leadership nationally, locally and at the state level to attend a We Are One rally held across not only the nation but also the world.

    I do not know about you, but I am not a sheep.  Before I go and stand out with a group of people chanting with signs about this or that, I want to know whom I am standing with. I went to the We Are One web site at www.we-r-1.org and what was on there was amazing.  I encourage you to check it out for yourself.

   On the right side of their home page you will find a link named “Allies Support” and this will take you to a list of organizations that are supporting this rally, and this movement.  There are 124 Organizations listed in support of you and our labor union. These are the people who, if you went to the rally you were “standing in solidarity” with.

    The list was broken into 3 categories Allies (47), Political Leaders (16), and Global Support (61).  When you take out the politicians the fact that 57% of these organizations are from foreign countries should be enough of a red flag for you to go check it out.  Maybe the fact that 100% of the political leaders are “progressives” might get you thinking this may be a little one sided. Maybe the fact that of the homegrown support roughly 40% of the organizations listed received funding directly from George Soros to the tune of 3.2 million dollars in 2009 alone, and that’s just direct funding. The fact that almost all of them are “progressive” socialist organizations might throw a red flag or two.

    Take just a little of your time and check these things out for yourself and just browse some of the other organizations that are supporting this movement. Check out the following web sites;

www.cpusa.org

www.socialistparty-usa.org

www.fightbackteachin.org  (this one was actually affiliated with and officially part of the We Are One rallies as the information and study material for these “teach ins” were on the We Are One web site.)

  Just take a little time out your day and check it out, see for yourself if you agree with these people.

   I can not say this enough, so its worth repeating.

 The future stability of your pension system DEPENDS ENTIRLEY on the stock market!

  These people that our unions are standing with do not even believe in the stock market, they are trying to destroy free market capitalism, they think its evil, WE ARE BEING USED!