Happy Labor Day a Little Late; Michael Moore is Awesome

September 7, 2010

His response to Rahm E.’s alleged “Fuck the UAW” comment? Brilliant. For instance:

Did you know that back when I was a kid if you had a parent making a union wage, only one parent had to work?! And they were home by 3 or 4pm, 5:30 at the latest! We had dinner together! Dad had four weeks paid vacation. We all had free health and dental care. And anyone with decent grades went to college and it didn’t fucking bankrupt them. (And if you ever used the F-word, the nuns would straighten you out in ways that even you couldn’t bear to hear about).

Then a Republican fired all the air traffic controllers, a Democrat gave us NAFTA and millions of jobs were moved overseas (hey, didn’t you work in that White House, too? “Fuck the UAW, baby!”). Unions got scared and beaten down, a frat boy became president and, like a drunk out of control, spent all our fucking money and our children’s money, too. Fuck.

And now your assistant’s grandma has to work at fucking McDonald’s. Ask her for pictures of what the middle class life used to look like. It was effing cool! I’ll bet grandma doesn’t say “Fuck the UAW!”

Happy (late) Labor Day to anyone who’s every worked long hours at a tough job, or two tough jobs, just to make ends meet. I’m sure that includes just about everyone I know, since I don’t know too many rich people. Or, really, any, now that I think about it.