State senator backs off Hitler-unions comparison
Source: Associated Press
State senator backs off Hitler-unions comparison
Jun. 6, 2014 2:17 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A Republican state legislator from Pennsylvania is backing away from a comment he made comparing labor unions to Adolf Hitler.
Sen. Scott Wagner said Wednesday on the Senate floor that labor unions, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hitler are about "power and control."
The senator wrote in a letter posted Friday (http://bit.ly/1lbva2w ) on the York Daily Record/Sunday News website that he "used an unfortunate analogy" and has contacted union leaders to tell them that.
Wagner doesn't want public sector unions to have their dues collected by the government, and his comment came during a debate to end that practice.
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Journeyman
(15,031 posts)What this nation needs is fresh, original hyperbole, some more nuanced stupidity.
How about some outrageous comments comparing politicians we don't like to tyrants and despots of the distant past, so we can at least enlarge the public's ignorance to include false comparisons to lesser known and even more misconceived analogies.
How about Tigleth Pilesar III? Or perhaps Yang Guang? Two especially fertile tyrants from which we could all draw some wickedly stupid comparisons to all sorts of people.
I grow tired of Hitler. I'm bored with Stalin. Castro and Chavez and such were never more than a regional distraction. Let us seek out new fields of ignorance, and boldly go where our stupidity beckons.
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)There's a natural affinity there.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)he picked up a history book and found hitler killed the unionists first?
Omaha Steve
(99,618 posts)Can't they stick to calling us thugs etc?
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)reality isn't the GOP strong suit.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)"Let's talk about Moammar Gadhafi, let's talk about Saddam Hussein," said Wagner, who also mentioned Josef Stalin.
He said there have been "dictators around the world. And when you have power and control with a few people, it is not good."
Wagner said on Thursday he didn't make his comments to offend anyone, but he wanted to explain about "power and control." Wagner said a large number of lawmakers have received money from unions.
When Wagner was asked about a union member who objected, Wagner said he "should grow up." He said opponents of the union dues legislation would use his comments as a "smoke bomb" to distract from the real issue.
http://www.ydr.com/state/ci_25901595/scott-wagners-comments-unions-hitler-criticized
atreides1
(16,076 posts)Maybe someone should point out the similarities between those dictators and how the Republicans rigged the Congressional districts in the states they controlled after the 2010 census, to gain power!
Wasn't Pennsylvania one of those states that made sure the Republicans would have "power and control", like those dictators that Wagner describes!
MisterP
(23,730 posts)november3rd
(1,113 posts)hey, at least unions aren't pushing for the right to carry loaded guns in the workplace.
Aristus
(66,328 posts)(Granted, not every repuke considers that to be a deal-breaker...)
As posted above, Hitler busted the unions. Outlawed them. Made advocating them, or supporting them a "Knock-knock, open up, it's the Gestapo" offense. He founded the National Labor Front, which was work-camps with a little military drill thrown in. Distantly related to what the Jews were forced into, only with better food, and no gas chamber at the end. Not exactly the AFL-CIO...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)???