Sunday, April 10, 2011

Dear Mr. President. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Dear Mr. President. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Dear Mr. President.

Dear Mr. President,

We meet here today because one of our nation’s greatest resources is facing extinction. That resource is the American Worker and their right to Collective Bargaining.

One of your alum from Harvard once said, “A mind stretched to a new dimension, will never return to its original shape”. That statement is truer now than when Oliver Wendell Holmes said it nearly a century ago. And you Sir are one of the modern examples. Your Presidency not only stretched one mind, it stretched the mind of a nation and in turn, a world.

Therefore, I would like to take you up on a campaign promise. It was when you mentioned that you would walk arm-in-arm with us to campaign for American Workers rights. Thus far and with all due respect, your position and statements coming from the White House has been somewhat tepid.

American Workers from across the country now find themselves fighting for survival and they need


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