{"id":14158,"date":"2011-02-18T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T07:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14158"},"modified":"2011-02-18T00:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T07:11:40","slug":"obama-speaks-why-lumberjacks-schoolteachers-and-bankers-need-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14158\/obama-speaks-why-lumberjacks-schoolteachers-and-bankers-need-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama speaks: Why lumberjacks, schoolteachers and bankers need unions."},"content":{"rendered":"

A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s important to remember. That public service. Is a great sacrifice.”<\/p>\n

“Good… Good…” Manny Kant said that.<\/p>\n

“Most of the government employees I know. Are at their desks. As early as ten every morning. And few of them ever make it home. Before three in the afternoon.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah… That’s not so good.”<\/p>\n

“I myself. Have given my whole life. To public service. So I know just how much. Sacrifice is required.”<\/p>\n

Manny Kant could swear profusely with his eyes, but what he actually said out loud was nothing.<\/p>\n

“On any given day. The typical public employee may not know. If the man he has just met. Is a peaceful villager. Or a Taliban irregular.”<\/p>\n

“No! Madison, Wisconsin, not Afghanistan.”<\/p>\n

“That public employee. Could lose a limb. At the slip. Of. A simple chainsaw.”<\/p>\n

“Schoolteachers! Not lumberjacks.”<\/p>\n

“That public employee. May have to work. In searing. Heat. For hours on end.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” said Manny, well beyond frustrated. “That guy works in a foundry.” To me he said, “You wondered about the teleprompter?”<\/p>\n

[continue reading at SplendorQuest.com<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “It’s important to remember. That public service. Is a great sacrifice.” “Good… Good…” Manny Kant said that. “Most of the government employees I know. Are at their desks. As early as ten every morning. And few of them ever make it home. 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