"nada" wrote in message ...
Lu Powell wrote:
Jesus and a Union Guy

Two managers and a union worker were fishing on a lake one day, when
Jesus walked across the water and joined them in the boat.

When the three astonished men had settled down enough to speak, the first
guy asked humbly, "Jesus, I've suffered from back pain ever since I took
shrapnel in the Vietnam war...could you help me?" "Of course, my son",
Jesus said, and when he touched the man's back, he felt relief for the
first time in years. The second man, who wore very thick glasses and had
a hard time reading and driving, asked if Jesus could do anything about
his eyesight. Jesus smiled, removed the man's glasses and tossed them in
the lake. When they hit the water, the man's eyes cleared and he could
see everything distinctly.

When Jesus turned to heal the union worker, the guy put his hands up and
cried defensively, "Don't touch me! I'm on long term disability."



It is easy to see that you have a prejudice against working people.
Rest assured if a guy was on long term disability he was disabled.
They go to great lengths to monitor anyone who might be playing the
system. Very very few if any get away with cheating.
This kind of prejudice is encouraged by the likes of Wall Street who want
slave wage labor.
In case you're wondering where the term wage slave came from it was the
North. In coincidence with the arrival of the Irish from the potato famine
the Industrialists got rid of their slaves which were expensive to feed,
clothe and house etc. They hired the Irish and anyone else so desperate to
work for as little as ten cents a day. If they fell, ill, died or simply
didn't perform they were replaced by one of horde waiting for their
jobs. They worked little kids, old women, and everyone else worse than
they would work a slave. If they worked a slave to death they were
expensive to replace.

I see it's easy for you to make snap judgments about other people. I have no
prejudices against working people, having been one myself for many years.
Born to a sharecropper, I was first in my extended family to finish high
school and college. What I saw of unionists was my father working for
starvation wages for the railroads, paying his required union dues, and
getting little in return. Union stewards didn't look out for the working
men; they feathered their own nests.

My father taught me the value of honesty and hard work, which has served me
well. I was in a western police department and saw the growth of police
unions. At first, the union was a valid and necessary answer to poor
management, which is the usual case. Then, as it matured the union grew fat
and lazy. It no longer served its membership, and was nearly unseated by a
more militant union. The end result was an unlawful police strike that
lasted for almost two weeks. When the members returned to work, the union
settled on a contract that was LESS than the city's final offer before the
members hit the bricks. The wages lost during the strike took three years to
recoup after the strike. The union officials were replaced by more
reasonable persons, who themselves became fat and lazy.

When I retired as assistant chief of police years later, the union was
spending huge amounts of money to keep incompetent police officers from
being fired. It was so bad, the union trustees forced the resignation of the
president and his henchmen. I went on to serve as police chief in two
southern police departments.

Am I prejudiced about unionists? Nope. I know them first hand for what they
evolve into.

Be that as it may, I'm not interested in a ****ing contest. If you don't
like my postings, put me in your kill file, like I did to Hairy Harry
Krause.