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<blockquote data-quote="Inthegame" data-source="post: 3497112" data-attributes="member: 37112">Happy retirement.&nbsp; Not that you&#039;d care but I thought some sliver of appreciation might wander through the fog of confusion that exists between your ears if you read what a social conscious man once wrote. (But I doubt it).&quot;Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again; been seized by the throat and choked and clubbed into insensibility; enjoined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the press, frowned upon by public opinion, deceived by politicians, threatened by priests, repudiated by renegades, preyed upon by grafters, infested by spies, deserted by cowards, betrayed by traitors, bled by leeches, sold out by leaders, but, notwithstanding all this, and all these, it is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as the setting of the sun.&quot; Eugene Debs 1904You think it great sport to rip the organization whose sole existence is for the welfare of it&#039;s members while exalting the organization whose sole purpose is profit. And yet you easily criticize the guys who work daily to keep it alive, never having spent a moment in their shoes?Good luck in the next &quot;phase&quot; of that life...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Inthegame, post: 3497112, member: 37112"] Happy retirement. Not that you'd care but I thought some sliver of appreciation might wander through the fog of confusion that exists between your ears if you read what a social conscious man once wrote. (But I doubt it). "Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again; been seized by the throat and choked and clubbed into insensibility; enjoined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the press, frowned upon by public opinion, deceived by politicians, threatened by priests, repudiated by renegades, [B]preyed upon by grafters, infested by spies, deserted by cowards, betrayed by traitors, bled by leeches,[/B] [B]sold out by leaders,[/B] but, notwithstanding all this, and all these, it is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as the setting of the sun." Eugene Debs 1904 You think it great sport to rip the organization whose sole existence is for the welfare of it's members while exalting the organization whose sole purpose is profit. And yet you easily criticize the guys who work daily to keep it alive, never having spent a moment in their shoes? Good luck in the next "phase" of that life... [/QUOTE]

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