You have his name wrong it’s Bozo the Idiot. He thinks his replies are intelligent or sharp but all he does is copy and paste some quote he found somewhere or makes up. This is the guy who proclaimed a landslide in the presidential election but for Romney. He also claimed that President Obama ignored the white people in the NY area during the storm Sandy time. He used areas like Long Island, Staten Island and Coney Island as examples, apparently BtI doesn’t know much about the racial makeup of the NYC metroplitan area. So take anything he states with a big grain of salt.

Metro… I do not count you amongst the oblivious, my friend. You know that. And yes, I do have some quotations that I use when appropriate.

Have a great day, Metro!

“Rule of thumb… never trust what comes from the mouth of a socialist politician. They are only lying to you so they can spend other people’s money to build up their own power base and bureaucracy.” – ObozoMustGo

I see what you did there.

I haven’t seen “The Secret of Oz” documentary. But I did read “Atlas Shrugged,” back inmy mid-twenties. And it reaffirmed my belief in liberalism and trade unionism. Much the opposite reaction Ms. Rand would have hoped for, I’m sure.

I did say, in my reply, that “some people” feel that way. You are wrong about my mindset as a person who participated in contract negotiations for the union. Negotiating a contract is certainly an adversarial relationship, but that is quite different from a hostile relationship. It is adversarial in the respect that each side is trying to get the best deal for their group. In my case we did not negotiate with individual business owners, we negotiated with a group of business owners who had their own national “union,” which they preferred to call an “association.” It sounds so much more sophisticated that “union.” Some were more hard-nosed than others, for sure. But there was rarely any outright hostility. In fact, I had quite friendly relations with several of the business owners I sat across the negotiating table from. I worked for more than one of them during my nearly 40 years in the trade. Wel negotiated. That’s an exercise that goes on in business every day. You try to sell me a bridge at what you consider a good price. I try to get it for a lower price. We present our cases, agree on a price and conclude the deal. No shouting, no banging on tables and no fistic encounters or taking revenge if the other guy got the best of the deal. As for knowing any employers who had a low opinion of their employees, you may not know any, I only knew of one. But there will always be employers and employees who have no respect for one another. You can consider yourself lucky to have not known any. Failure to negotiate is what causes problems. This is the biggest failure of our present government. Standing by your principles is good. Failing to negotiate in good faith simply to gain political power or to line one’s own pockets is reprehensible and not good for the country. Republicans need to kick the likes of Grover Norquist to the curb and get down to business and negotiate in good faith. Why do they want to let one man, with more money that he knows what to do with, control their whole party any more than a group of businessmen would let one hostile member determine what the rest of them should do. The Republicans made a lot of noise about running the government like a business. Then do it.

Have a great day! And I will pass on your regards to Mrs. Metro.