AFL-CIO President Trumka spoke as part of a panel entitled, “Which Way for the Working Class? Elections 2010 and Beyond” (h/t Jim Hoft over at Big Government) and had some jaw-dropping comments.  First, though, notice how these folks link a particular category of the population to elections.  And then they try to play like they represent the underprivileged in some sort of proletarian movement a la the French Revolution — “Off with Chimpy McBushhitlerburton’s head!”.  The problem is that excessive taxation and a huge government debt were leading causes to the fiscal crisis leading up to the French Revolution.  Hmmm, sounds a bit familiar.

Anyway, Mr. Trumka said, “we need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government.”  How should we interpret this?  I think simply put, he is advocating for the public (read: government) control of private corporations.  Let me think, I seem to remember a term for that kind of social and economic system.  I know it’s here somewhere in my data banks.   Ah, right – Socialism.

If Mr. Trumka had been a reader, he would have come across a number of posts describing how the federal and state employees actually cost more than private sector jobs by no insignificant amount. This move would demolish the staggering economy now.

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