UAW members should worry about what future may bring

UAW members should worry about what future may bring

EDITOR:

So the UAW went on strike to protect the middle class.  Pleeeze! Give me a break. 

UAW members went on strike for themselves — period. I admire their attempt to polish their image. After all, many people in the Mahoning Valley don’t work at GM, and they view UAW members as uneducated, overpaid, undeserving and unappreciative.  Or in Dick Gephardt’s words: “The winners of life’s lottery.”

I’m a great fan of unions, but it is hard to muster any sympathy for the UAW.  They routinely vote for Democrats.  And what is the Democrat Party’s stock in trade? It’s the politics of envy. There isn’t a Democrat who doesn’t attack the “rich” for being greedy, undeserving, and unappreciative.  To the guy making $10 an hour, the UAW member is rich, and he wants what they have. After all, aren’t they just the winners of that lottery – the one that got them a job at GM?

Unfortunately, the recent outburst against the UAW is just the tip of the iceberg.  The Democrats are about to legalize 20 million illegal immigrants. Why? Classic Democrat liberalism. These poor immigrants deserve what you have — a good education, a good medical plan and a secure retirement. But they are poor and can’t afford it.

So “the rich” will have to pay for it. As Hillary Clinton recently stated, “We are going to have to take from some and give it to others to make it fair.” With 20 million immigrant voters looking for a handout, she’ll have the power to do just that. The only question is — are you a “some” or an “other?”

I offer this bit of advice to the UAW:Polish your image all you want, but a coat of polish won’t change who you are, especially when poorer Democrats have been conditioned to see you as greedy, undeserving and rich. If you really want to change how people see you, stop rewarding the politics of envy with your vote, preferably before those 20 million new voters give Democrat politicians the power to take away what you’ve earned.

THOMAS MASKELL

Poland

Don’t blow public money
on junkets for councilmen

EDITOR:

The city of Youngstown keeps talking like they have no money; the mayor wants to tax the surrounding counties because the city doesn’t have any money. Yet they have the money to send five councilmen to New Orleans who only have six weeks left of their terms at the expense of the taxpayers. It will cost the city $12,709 to do this when they can attend for free with the same results by conference calls.

Then they all wonder why people turn down levies. Youngstown should use this money for the schools or fixing the roads and not waste it.

Taxpayers, listen, the next time they want us to pass an increase in the income tax, we must all say no. Let the officeholders do without, as we the taxpayers do. We should put our councilmen on a fixed budget like we are and let them see how far it gets them.

They are wasting our money and they think there’s nothing wrong with it. If they want to go, let them use their own money instead of our money.

Maybe the city would like to pay our way to go to New Orleans as well. My husband pays Youngstown city taxes.

PHYLLIS STRONG

Struthers