1. That the Racine firefighters actually thought this was a good idea, or that..

2. They think this is goign to help them make their case ( such as it is) to the people of Wisconsin ( and America)

they are far more about the money than about anything else. I have a lifelong friend who worked his way up through the local department to the top and watched as the culture changed from being about service to being about money. However, when he retired after 35 years, his pension is $235,000 per year so you can see why they would feel that way.

Thanks put it, like alot of Redstate on my blog tribute to the day:

http://forums.christianity.com/fb.aspx?m=5323776

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to make this political instead of about the brave men who lost their lives as a result of terrorism. Obviously it’s about themselves rather than the country. One would think they would embrace the rememberance of their FF brothers. Makes you wonder if they would really go the extra mile in when people are in trouble. God bless Mr.Gorniak for standing up to these people. As long as “O” is the POTUS you will continue to see idiocy like this since the unions are free to make the rules. They are truly without a soul!

or too much of anything else laudable,in this instance. While likely not a common occurence, Disgusting NONE-THE-LESS. In this case , it would appear that some did Die in Vain, and Nothing can be sadder than that. Who could have ever thought that discourse would fall to this level? Is Heartless ,soulless Agenda really all some have left? To some in Racine, Wisconsin THIS is now a Given and not in dispute. Where is a vote of no confidence, when you want one?

Being a volunteer firefighter, this story is particularly irksome. Those who do not support the float obviously care little or nothing about being an American or being a Firefighter, and put way too much emphasis on being a union member. We ( volunteers) do the same job as paid departments, meet the same training standards, make the same calls (often with older or even outdated equipment), and will continue to do so. Why? Because we understand the brotherhood of firefighters, and the need for service to others. The above mentioned union hands obviously do not, and maybe never have. This is just one more case of unions interfering and ruining the motivations of good men and women. Sad to see. And onr more thing before I hit the post button. How may of you reading this are aware that between 75 and 80 % of all Fire Departments in the United States are Volunteer?

The point to all this is that the unions have crossed over to communism. They no longer exist to help the workingman, but to use them to put in play their policies that come from the Hitler era. If you look at the unions books you will see that they just use the members to collect their hard earned money so that the bosses live the life of luxury, and promote which Politian that will give the union bosses more money. Why does a union need so much money? Why do unions not cut their members dues after making millions of dollars? Shouldn’t the union want their members to keep their own money for their families? Originally, that is what unions were all about, getting a better wage for their members, yet now the unions have been corrupted by greedy union bosses, and their need for power and money. The unions now support crooked Politians to gain more power so that they can make more money. They have forgotten the real reason they started.
Union: American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees
Membership: 1.5 million
Assets: $97 million
Union: Laborers’ International Union of North America
Membership: 633,000
Assets: $134 million
Union: American Federation of Teachers
Membership: 887,000
Assets: $115 million
Union: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Membership: 685,000
Assets: $482 million
Union: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Membership: 613,000
Assets: $147 million
Union: United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
Membership: 538,000
Assets: $1.2 billion
(A)WHAT DEMS & HITLER HAVE IN COMMOM
In Mien Kampf, Hitler himself wrote:
As things stand today, the trade unions in my opinion cannot be dispensed with. On the contrary, they are among the most important institutions of the nation’s economic life. Their significance lies not only in the social Democrats think unions are great and that Republicans are like Hitler, because Hitler dissolved the Weimar Republic’s unions and consolidated them into the German equivalent of the AFL-CIO, basing the unions on socialist equality principles. Yes, he dissolved the unions. But he only did so because they weren’t “union” enough
(B) Obama’s Favorite Union Goes Full Communist
A May Day rally in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the SEIU and various communist groups, as well as other unions, reflected yet another step in the normalization of self-identified communist and socialist ideologies in the Obama era. Not only did the SEIU help to organize the rally in conjunction with communists, they marched side-by-side with communists, while union members carried communist flags, communists carried union signs, and altogether there was no real way to tell the two apart.
(C )OBAMA’S TOP OFFICIALS STAIGHT FROM BIG LABORS PAROLL
Obama’s political operatives at DOL and other agencies are scared to death that you and I will expose their backroom dealings to the light of day.
In fact, many of President Obama’s top officials were taken straight off Big Labor’s payroll, including:
* Hilda Solis, now Secretary of Labor, was an officer at “American Rights at Work,” a Big Labor front group funded by the AFL-CIO and the radical SEIU union specifically to counter the National Right to Work organization… us!
* Deborah Greenfield, now a high-ranking Labor Department official, worked as a top attorney at the AFL-CIO before she parachuted into DOL during the Obama transition period.
* Craig Becker, installed by Barack Obama at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), over the bi-partisan objections of Senators, after a career as a union lawyer and chief legal strategist for the SEIU and AFL-CIO.
(D) National Labor Relations Board says Boeing can’t build plant in South Carolina
(E) Union whistleblowers: We were beaten and harassed after they accused bosses of looting
(F) The Government Union Right to Viagra is Bankrupting You
(G )Death, Taxes…and Union Dues?
(H) One Year’s Worth Of Union Dues Could Support 265,447 U.S. Workers For A Year
1. As the AFL-CIO’s chief financial officer, Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka allowed the Federation’s net assets to shrink from $66 million on July 1, 2000 to a negative of $2.3 million by June 30, 2008. Furthermore, the AFL-CIO’s liabilities, as of June 30, 2008, was more than $90.7 million, and that was before the multimillions it spent during the 2008 election campaign.
What was Trumka doing while the AFL-CIO was drowning in red ink? How does he propose to clear up the mess that, under his watch, has brought the Federation to the brink of near-insolvency? Why does he refuse to answer legitimate questions about wasteful spending and bookkeeping manipulation?
2, Richard Trumka increased his yearly salary by nearly $74,000—from $165,000 to $238,975— in the last four years. That amounts to a 44 percent salary increase. In addition, Trumka will also get an AFL-CIO pension equal to 60 percent of his top pay.
What did Trumka do to deserve that extra $74,000? Why did he keep it secret? Like a corporate CEO, he apparently had no qualms about pocketing all that money, while the AFL-CIO was facing a financial crisis, and millions of workers were losing their jobs and their homes.