Toomey visits Carbon County

While we were waiting to get in, I became embroiled in an argument with a Tea Party guy about my age who was anti-union.  He said he was an American individual and didn’t need a union.  I asked him if he really thought an individual Wal-Mart worker could bargain with Wal-Mart.  He said if he did a good job, he would get a raise.  I asked him how he could be so old and have learned so little.  People around us stepped back and looked uncomfortable.  The older I get, the nastier I get.  The problem is that I am just too old to put up with such crap.

I wasn’t allowed to take my small poster into the event.  The poster said, “Class warfare is raging in America, and our class ain’t winning.”  The security guy, who was dressed all in black and looked like a typical bouncer, said he was working for Penn’s Peak.  I asked him if I could bring in a gun, and he said “No.”  So much for the Second Amendment.  

I spent the entire event in the last row with my chair turned around and my back toward Toomey.  I did hear Toomey attack the NLRB, the EPA, the Health Care Reform, and the  stimulus.  Here’s a guy who made his money in currency manipulation presenting himself as a big expert on the economy.  He doesn’t represent people like me.  He represents oil companies, banks, and corporations.  He is a right-wing ideologue, willing to put people’s health and lives at risk in service to his corporate bosses.