WHY CAN'T WE DRIVERS STICK TOGETHER

Back in the 70's you piss off truckers you got a REAL problem. Actual life threatening costly problems. Why? because you wont raise pay? HA.

Today? Herding drivers like herding cats. Half of whom can barely speak english.

Any time you have a ... grievance and become a leader with 5000 drivers following you to the boss's office or to the Government office you have a mob that suddenly becomes a people's law enforcment, sanitation and other problems imposed on that area.

Back in the days of 1.99 fuel the cb was FULL of talk that was really loud, scary and big time serious with passion to stop this USA when it hits 2.00.

2,05 the next morning and it's all mindless entertainment, easily forgotten in your hangover today.

You can do massive good things when you organize, drill and disclipine people to a single goal. It takes months. It's not going to happen with ordinary people. Witness Paris, they cleared or are clearing the hobo jungle in calais and suddenly downtown Paris is full of filthy tents. France should deploy the military and round up every soul who is NOT a French Citizen or other LAWFUL Foreign visitor of a western nation and ship them right back to Syria where they need cannon fodder to fight Mosul and Aleppo.

 

I was a member of the tea party alliance in Nashville Tennessee. We had zero funding from outside forces and were 7,500 strong.

We allied ourselves with northern Alabama and Kentucky. The largest rally we organized was 13,000 people, and had zero funding from outside sources.

If a chapter had that kind of funding, we never saw it. Most top republicans and democrats hated our movement. They wouldn't have helped fund it. Bob Corker tried to have one of our rallies #### down as a matter of fact.

Again, not to get political, my point was America in itself is just divided today. It's really difficult to have any group of people coalesce behind anything that's not secretly funded.

As X said, it's actually a global problem as well. There are too many distractions. It will take a major event to make it happen.

 

http://time.com/secret-origins-of-the-tea-party/

 

Hate to break it to ya but it wasn't just the politicians and companies against ya. It was your own elected union officials. They sold you or and you keep electing them. The fact that you still have a hoffa leading the Teamsters says a lot.

 

A lot of unions are corrupt, not all of them by any means but a lot of them.

I've seen time and time again the union leaders sell out the membership, all the while the leadership got raises. For some crazy reason, the membership still praises them.

A local aircraft company went on strike a couple of years ago. When contract time came around they got greedy and talked the membership into voting down the contract, even thought it contained a substantial raise and every member was to receive a $1,000 bonus for passing the contract on the first vote. They were on strike for 2 months and ended up going back to work for the original offer. Not only did membership loose the $1,000 bonus, they also lost 2 months wages, for absolutely nothing. All the while the union leaders continued getting their paychecks and did nothing but keep the membership riled up. After the dust settled they lost a lot of members (right to work state) but there is still a substantial number that still praises their union.

Just about all the construction jobs around here used to be union. Now you'd be hard pressed to find a union construction outfit working short of government jobs. It finally got so bad that about all the union did was to keep the dead weight on the payroll while dragging the good union guys down with them, due to their rules. Quality suffered, cost soared, and they died. You can't pay a deadbeat the same wage as a good worker and expect the good worker to perform to his ability.

The building trades unions used to be great. They had a apprenticeship program and had skilled people. All you had to do is call the union hall and get skilled labor for your project They ended apprenticeship programs and now will pretty much take anybody that will pay dues. Now if you call the union hall, all you'll get is some deadbeat that can't get a job anywhere else.

 

Again, not to get political, but I wouldn't believe a half sentence written by time.

In sure there were sectors recieving money. But most of the tea party was genuine. I helped organize, I know for a fact. Again, leaders in BOTH parties tried to shut us down on more than one occasion. I won't even get into the IRS targeting some of our members.

 

Time didn't write it.

 

Park the trucks ( all trucks ) for just 5 days.

Rocket science.

 

Understood. Nesbit worked for powerful leaders in both parties. Our chapters were devoted to undermining those people who were destroying this country through mountains of debt. He's not a reputable or unbiased source by any means. The tea party wasn't formed through professional protesting. Again, I was at over 10 rallies and helped organize a few through Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. We had no funding minus small donations. We actually tried in the beginning, and were never granted much.

Most of the tea party was genuine, with genuine people taking part. My point was it was probably the most unified movement I remember in my lifetime (29). It's tough to get people to do that today.

Many distractions as well as content people in the world now. It will take a major event to change it.

 

My dad was a mailman. He would always tell me, if truckers and mailmen stopped for 24 hours the nation would feel the effects for a decade