Hussein's Goons Go After Boy Scouts

I thought one of the "big ideas" of Hussein's Hopeandchange Fiasco was to get young Americans more involved in volunteering and community work? Apparently some of his hired goons in the SEIU don't see it that way.

Nick Balzano, president of the SEIU's Allentown, Pa., chapter, threatened legal action over a Boy Scout's work to voluntarily clear a run-down walking path in a local park. It seems that to Balzano's mind, that falls under the category of "scab work". He feels that they city should have paid laid-off SEIU employees to do the job. According to Balzano: "There's to be no volunteers."

Of course, an SEIU spokesman is downplaying Balzano's comments, saying he had no authority to act in such a manner. That may or may not be the case, but the bottom line here is one more instance of union thugs, especially goons like Hussein's SEIU, threatening non-union people for doing things they don't like. It's one of the things that make so so adamantly anti-union: their disgusting sense of entitlement just because they're in a union. Having spent several summers during high school and college working around and with union members, either at construction sites or in factories, I've seen this type of bullshit first-hand. Lazy, careless, and very often inept workers grumbling when someone upsets their routine by actually doing some work. Twice I have been personally confronted with this situation: once as a laborer installing drywall, once as a forklift operator. Apparently I was "getting too much done" in the course of my shift, and was making the union guys look bad. Silly me, thinking I should actually do the job I was getting paid to do in a timely and efficient manner, and not stop for a coffee break every 90 minutes. And how dare I come back from lunch early, just because I was finished eating and the only thing that makes a mindless factory job worse is watching a clock to go back to a mindless factory job for the rest of the day.

Because that cuts against the grain of the "give us more money for no reason" attitude of the vast majority of unions.

Story here.