anticon of city in, ME Yeah, it's really terrible how the kj is so opportunistic in its political tirades...

Really, irony is just so completely lost on some people.


I thank the KJ for this article, as well as the companion piece by Frances Perkins. She was an example of courage and class from a day when politicians, or americans in general, still truly understood the value of such things.report abuse

tytl of Augusta, ME Gotta love the KJ:

"But while she was raised in comfort as the daughter of a well-to-do Republican businessman, Perkins forged a life as a champion of the American worker,"

Never miss the opportunity to take a political shot. The implication of course is that Republicans are in opposition to the "American worker".

Most of us work ! A lot of us are Republicans. In fact, as the unions continue to pump up socialist candidates an awful lot of Republicans keep getting elected which must mean that a lot of "American workers" are, gasp, Republicans or vote Republican. Of course, maybe Little Tommy Allen would want to change that by making union thugs look over our shoulders in the ballot box.

I am guessing that in the cloistered halls of what we, in Maine, loosely call "journalism", ie the KJ, the Guild members, think that they constitute and understand the average "American worker". Not so.

The idea of "championing the American worker" through union collectivism has been rejected and is more and more being rejected as union membership continues to decrease.

The real friend of the "American worker" is one who gives them the freedom to work as they wish, gives them secret ballots to decide whether or not they want the yoke of unionism thrust on them and stops stealing their earnings under the guise of the "common good".report abuse