When I opened the door to leave the buildng I heard that voice, the voice of America's most famous drug-addict, Rush Limbaugh.  I was at an RV dealership, of all places, an anomoly in these dire economic times.  I was accompanying a friend who had actually just bought one, for $50,000 less then it was worth.  So I thought I would see some SUV or a Cadillac, or something like it with one of those arrogant, self-absorbed, big money types getting out of their ride.  But what did I see?  A UPS truck!!!

The sight really stopped me in my tracks.  It was a Teamster!  A guy making close to $30/hour running around for the man listening to a guy tell the nation he makes too much money and his union should be disbanded because it impedes capitalism.    I had to resist laughing at him.  He seemed so serious and determined in his work.  He was focused.  He also had an air of anger about him.  So I thoughts about this.

It's commonly held that Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the Right-Wing Bobbleheads are purveyors of anger, doling out a rage-fix to people in need of something at which to direct their feelings.  It charges their batteries.  Sometimes I believe that I listen to Left Wing radio for much the same reason, but I can see how their agenda comports with mine.  What about this UPS Driver?  Doesn't he get it?!?!?

This is where organized labor has lost the war.  Obviously the UPS Driver does not get it, that Rush is adamantly opposed to his achieving the standard of living to which the driver has become accustomed and which the driver clearly takes for granted.  Somehow the Teamster fails to see that his employer would rather not increase his wages or benefits whenever that issue arises.  His memory must not include the strike fifteen or so years ago when that exact issue provoked his union brothers to leave the job.  He's drunk the Kool-Aid that unions are socialism and socialism is evil.  It is an affront to capitalism.  He somehow also fails to realize that strike did not break the company and UPS remains profitable.

Does the Driver realize his union is a capitalist enterprise?  Does he realize being organized is how he becomes a shareholder in the organization, and that his labor IS capital?  Does he not see that the employer is organized.  There is an entire management team to evaluate how he is treated.  They work together to achieve their ends.  So why is his cooperating with his fellow Teamsters any different?  Why should every employee have to fight alone when the company is all together about scraping whatever expenses they can away from the employee?  It defies logic, but there it is.

There was another lesson I learned yesterday as well, because I had bveen brought along to drive my neighbor's car back to his house as he brought home his new RV.  I was listening to the radio station he had been listening to the last time he drove the car.  It was Michael Savage.  Mr. Savage does not discriminate.  He hates everyone.  I felt the rage this merchant of madness was selling, but it was not toward the ones he described so bitterly.  My bitterness was toward Mr. Savage.  HIs screaming like Henny Penny that the nation is falling did provoke my emotions and I am very upset people like him and Rush have an audience, but I must agree, the nation is falling.