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Showing posts with label FDR. Show all posts
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Friday, February 25, 2011

FDR, Public Unions, and the Right-Wing

Beware of right-wingers bearing quotes!

Here's the background:  

There is a quote from FDR that has been making the rounds of right-wing blogs over the past two weeks.  As you can see from the quote below, those of the right-wing bent believe that FDR himself did not believe in public unions.
I was involved in a conversation on the Wisconsin situation ( "What Governor Walker Won't Tell You"  ) at Huffington Post.  Member Rashnak replied to a comment that I made in defense of unions:
"You are correct that unions led to a lot of great laws. But since the time of sweatshop­s and child labor is over, the time for public unions is also over, if it ever existed." 
He then quoted: