"scritch" wrote
ACORN was fighting for you, Jack. Al Franken is also fighting for you. Or
would you care to return to the days when a 6- or 7-day work week was
standard? Days when five-year-old children picked rocks from coal? Days
when you literally worked until you dropped dead on the job. Days when
company operators hired thugs to kill a few brave workers who had the gall
to stand up to the owners? When you got old, you starved? When you got
sick you died, penniless?

ACORN did not exist when the unions achieved all those goals. ACORN has
done nothing for me.

The unions did some great things for the workers but became very powerful
and often went too far. They fell into disfavor and now have realized the
error of their ways and often work with business to have apprenticeship
programs for the trades, etc. ACORN (stated in 1970) seems to have done
the same thing with the power and arrogance. Good riddance. Franken can
follow. I'm just glad he never had a love child with Pelosi.