Union Boss: Deficit Crisis Myth Right-Wing Media Propaganda

AFL-CIO union boss Richard Trumka says this country doesn’t have a deficit crisis… And any suggestion that we do is the fault of the Republicans and their willing allies in the press.

Seriously, he really said that!

Here, take a look:

Here are a couple of things to keep in mind about the veracity, logic, and intelligence of Mr. Trumka’s fiscal analysis of our country:

• The AFL-CIO is one of the single largest contributors to President Obama and the Democratic Party
• They reap enormous, direct benefits from the ever-expanding size of the federal government
• The AFL-CIO ran itself insolvent in the 2008 presidential election–spending millions more than the union had taken in from dues, and later engaged in “creative accounting” to conceal their financial hardships
• The AFL-CIO has pledged to spend upwards of $53 million in the waning days of the midterm election
• Mr. Trumka has also said that he “watched (tea party protesters) spit at people, I watched them call John Lewis the n-word,” even though he is nowhere to be found on any of the videos of the alleged incident
• Mr. Trumka has also said, in reference to the Tea Party Movement: “There are forces in our country that are working hard to convert justifiable anger about an economy that only seems to work for a few of us into racist and homophobic hate and violence directed at our President…”

Considering Mr. Trumka’s track record of fiscal irresponsibility, race-baiting, false accusations and overwhelmingly partisan support for the Democratic Party, why is he still taken seriously by the media as a spokesperson for organized labor rather than what he truly is? He’s a shill for the Democrats, and a pretty bad one at that.