1984-04 April IBEW Journal.pdf - International Brotherhood of ...

y- enem,es h~ven ' t rcally dC5uoyed the mob.llty of
the ISEW. 10 we have ~ lot of Brot hers u guests
In s,sler locals Ihroughout Ihe country
The advant~ge to the out·of·work Brother m the
IBEW is Ihe .btl"y to And work somewhere, . lso
meeung Ihe Brothe., 01 other locals and Ihel r mput
on how slm.lar problems are sol"ed etC_. etc_ II
can he an enhgiltenmg expelJence, provIdIng yoo
bnng thIS added kno .... ledge home'
. The bIg di !iadvanlage 10 Ihe local ...."h a hard
corps of Brothers In "an$" •• thc loss of Inpot at
the local onIon meell ng. My ob'ef"allon, regard
leu of the confhct 01 md,vtdlul idus, or solutIons
Ihat these BrothelS possess, IS thac as a groop, Ihey
arc the most on.on-orlented of .ny local and the
most suppo/Uve to uDlon progreu. There lie m~ny
ways .... e pay for the b ck 01 econom,c .cllVlty
. Income IS only one lacetl
[woold I'ke 10 make some Com men" on a pll>lul
' Idcshow of one world hlstoncal movement, n,mely.
Ihe Slupld atllons of ~ prcsldent electcd 20 years
aher h,. death at Ih e box office. Ahhou~h elccted
wllh the lie of balanclII K the budKel and redUCing
the nUlonal deht, by February 198~ we WIll h~ve
IIIcrcased the national deht 30, 7 percent, the lugest
10 our short hi ~ t o ry Unltke FDR. who had a !July
. global war of survIval, makIng a tW O occan Navy
Irom sCla!(h. 50,000 plane$ a ycar and [3 nulbon
se r~ln g m ,he Aimed Forces, he hu, tcg3rdlll~ Ihe
nallon's !iulvival, (om bat W!SC, a fc "" lD ' trn~'wnal
skllrnlshu, He has redlstrlbu!ed Our n"IUnal, rcu,
ure. Redlstllbullon, in word spukesc, can me~n
thdt!
Regardmg world hlstoflcal facts- no capltaltsl
country has, In the 20th C~ntO I Y, come OU t of a
depreSSIon .elYlDg On the b05IDCSS (Ommunlly ' 0
provide the muns of Iccovery But your president
plans thlS. Regardless of the results of ,he 1984
eleellon, Ihe Federal Reserve Notes fOI thIS huge
deficit WIll bJJ due around lanuary, February and
March 1985 It WIll he a debt IDc r e~se of ollc-thud
ovcrmght ThIS WIll compet~ w"h and, ID my
op,n,on, dcsuoy ~Jl venture capHal ID oU r country
Th,s "',ll cause a nlaS51Ve dcp.esslon, probably
"",-pled .. ·"h e:uremc mUallon Even manlVe pomp·
pllmmg. If wllhour controls to the tnlCflllllonal
flow of funds, w.ll foel the fites. Hc coold uke thc
CnU re weSlern wo rld down wllh hIm/us. PremIer
MJlterand Stated Ihe abovc also at Wt! lIamshu,g.
VUglllta, but w~sn't leally I[uoted 10 the Amclltan
med". Why! The really scary solullun uf the past,
If such a SI1 UallOn ansu, " war
Wc he tter push out !hc VOle fOi Mondalc and
then reUC Cllvely thmk how wc can pIck lip the
l\ piecu In 19H5. Rona ld, you fUlIl cd fuu r Ch ri,,·
males tn a row for the AmCllc~n people, if we
don 't plan, you could rUIn Chds!mu 19~5 l!l
ab.enlla. Le ch Wal esa, the Pohsh cleeUlClan. 15
the "Man of the Year." nOI yuul
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