Lu Powell wrote:

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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.
Pure BS
My Father was a sharecropper prior to his entry into the Army in 37.
He worked in a factory from 49 until 82. He was in a Union. He enjoyed
the average wage and benefits and the negotiating power of the union for
a fair shake. If not for the Union he would have been treated like what
we see in so many cases today: variable hours, underpay, little benefits
or none and no pension.
You got your bs from TV.