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Veteran Expediter
I have been reading No Ordinary Time again and somewhere buried in the book is a brief story of FDR, John L Lewis and the coal strike of 1943.
In our reecent past, we have heard a lot from the media that Bush's administration was acting in a Fascist manner with the Patriot Act and other things but when I heard a comparison of Obama to Hitler, everyone seemed to bring the persons to task.
So in the book, No Ordinary Time, it shows how our present administration may be thinking just like the National Socialist thought during that time by quoting FDR.
If you don't know, John L Lewis was the leader of the United Mine Workers and a very important supporter of FDR up until FDR ramped up war production. He pledged not to "strike for the duration of the war" but broke that promise not based on anything other than the desire to unionize all of the coal miners in the country.
FDR made the comment that the government will not compel people to join any union because this is what Hitler does. He threaten Lewis with the US government taking over the unionized coal mines. Lewis gave in but it shows that even though FDR depended on labor for their support, he wasn't going to go down the same path as what the country was fighting against.
So this seems to indicate that Obama is doing what FDR refused to do, force people to be unionized by supporting card check, rewarding the unions with their pension fund bailouts and so on.
In our reecent past, we have heard a lot from the media that Bush's administration was acting in a Fascist manner with the Patriot Act and other things but when I heard a comparison of Obama to Hitler, everyone seemed to bring the persons to task.
So in the book, No Ordinary Time, it shows how our present administration may be thinking just like the National Socialist thought during that time by quoting FDR.
If you don't know, John L Lewis was the leader of the United Mine Workers and a very important supporter of FDR up until FDR ramped up war production. He pledged not to "strike for the duration of the war" but broke that promise not based on anything other than the desire to unionize all of the coal miners in the country.
FDR made the comment that the government will not compel people to join any union because this is what Hitler does. He threaten Lewis with the US government taking over the unionized coal mines. Lewis gave in but it shows that even though FDR depended on labor for their support, he wasn't going to go down the same path as what the country was fighting against.
So this seems to indicate that Obama is doing what FDR refused to do, force people to be unionized by supporting card check, rewarding the unions with their pension fund bailouts and so on.