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Politicians. Who needs them?
We elect these shortsighted, narrow-minded, corporate-bought, egotistical, now useless purveyors of America, and all they do is continually punish the good people who elected them.
The honorable Orrin Hatch has taken his senior status and decided to run legislation, "Employee Rights Act," (S.1720), to further weaken the working rights of his constituents, all while coddling corporate America and desperately trying to destroy unions.
Middle-class Americans are this country's greatest asset, not the burden we are portrayed as. In 1979, Utah legislators voted to make the state a "right to work" state, which put in place restrictions on unions and the ability to collect dues, and thus created the "freeloader."
Hatch says he was a dues-paying, card-carrying union man, but he must have forgotten that and meant to say he was a "freeloader"entitled to all the union benefits.
Kevin C. Coté
West Jordan