Why was Lou Dobbs slamming that union guy? He doesn't hire workers...

[Fridays Child]

...his job is to protect the rights of the workers that the companies hire. Right? I came in at the end of the interview but Lou was blaming the union guy for driving down the slaughterhouse employees' wages by allowing illegal immigrants to have those jobs.

What am I'm missing here? Does the union hire slaughterhouse employees or does the company hire them? And, if it's the company that hires them, is it not the union's job to represent them, on the assumption that, if the company hired them, they must have the right to work in the U.S.?

[malaise]

1. Lou Dobbs is the biggest

gas bag of contradictions known to humanity.

[Fridays Child]

7. He was making absolutely NO sense. Is his sympathy for...

...working class Americans just a bunch of crap? Is he really a union hater?

[malaise]

22. Lou is both pro capitalist and

anti-capitalist. Go figure. The worst part is Lou doesn't even know when he contradicts himself. I just give thanks that every now and then he raises issues that matter, in his own contradictory way. At least people hear the issues and can sort them out for themselves.

Lou is serious comic relief for anyone who takes concepts, paradigms or ideologies seriously. One day when I have absolutely nothing else to do I will grade his book and send him my comments. No one should be so confused re basic concepts or ideas. How the fugg can you be pro corporations at home, claim to be pro middle class and attack unions ad nauseum.

Happy holidays Lou - you're way too old to change.
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[demosincebirth]

11. The union could have had a much better spokesman representing their side

Thats what made it look so lopsided.

Dobbs has never been a friend of Labor. Many people are under the impression that his is.

[rodeodance]

14. i heard him last night----you are right.

[Missy M]

2. Does Lou Dobbs not realize the reason we are losing the..

American middle class is because we are losing the unions.

[Fridays Child]

12. I thought he did but, evidently, he's very anti-union.

[rodeodance]

15. i have heard Lou diss Unions before.

[Missy M]

18. I'm afraid Lou Dobbs is more against illegal aliens than he is for

the American middle class.

[AzDar]

3. The Union represents the illegal workers, which seems to be counter-

productive to maintaining the desired wages of their legal members.

[Fridays Child]

4. As the union official pointed out, the union represents the men and women...

...who work there. Period. I can't fathom how company hiring decisions are the union's responsibilty. :shrug:

[ret5hd]

5. Unions represent WORKERS...period...

I compare them to pre-paid lawyers. Their job is to defend you...right, wrong, or otherwise.

[demosincebirth]

13. You're right.

Its not the unions job to question whether you are here legally or not.

[leftchick]

6. Because Dobbs is a Fucking Asshole

I saw it and had to turn, he did more interrupting than tweety could ever hope to with one interview! I hate dobbs! :argh:

[Fridays Child]

9. Yes, he was incredibly rude and he didn't come off well, at all.

The union guy, on the other hand, remained polite, throughout the interview.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Lou Dobbs is no friend of the middle class.

You heard it here first, folks.

[Fridays Child]

10. Well, he sure killed any notions I was harboring that he ever was...

...a friend of the Middle Class. He showed himself to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, tonight.

[NNN0LHI]

17. When he used the words "Democrats+Iraq+Failed" in the same sentence...

...twice in the first minute of his show I had a pretty good idea where Dobbs was headed for tonight.

Don

[malaise]

23. Bingo

He is a gas bag of contradictions which somehow always side with big business.
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[Selatius]

16. Lou Dobbs is a Republican. Of course he's going to attack the union.

I've never heard of a Republican economist or a Republican in the House or Senate come out in favor of unions in the first place.

[Fridays Child]

19. I thought he was a Libertarian.

:shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. I don't know.

Doesn't Bill O'Reilly say he's a moderate?

[Fridays Child]

21. LOL! Yeah.