Written By: A Keystone Pipeliner - And, I Ask Who Did The Unions Vote For ???

• Written by a Keystone Pipeliner:
  
  Today is a heavy day.
  It's hard to believe something
  I love so much can be taken away
  by people that have no idea exactly
  how I make my living.
  
  They have no idea the pain and misery
  and sacrifice that comes with this job.
  
  This job kept me from being a shit bag
  like alot of the lower class kids I grew up with.
  
  This job kept me off drugs and out of jail.
  
  This job moved me out of the slums.
  
  This job gave me a below average simple man
  that started with nothing but bad credit
  and a shitbox truck the ability to rise above
  alot of my peers.
  
  I didn't have to get a goverment loan
  that I can't pay back for an education I'll never use.
  
  All I had to do is put in my time
  and give it my best.
  
  I worked hard to get where im at.
  
  Nothing is free or given on the ROW.
  
  You earn it.
  
  Every damn bit of it.
  
  You work 7-12s no matter the weather.
  
  You miss holidays, birthdays, ballgames
  and all the other things 9 to 5ers enjoy.
  
  Yes the money's good.
  
  It's not about the money.
  
  It's the feeling you get when you and your buds
  are ringing wet covered in mud after a 16 hr shift doing a tie in.
  
  It's knowing you belong to something
  so much bigger than yourself.
  
  Mr President how dare you take that away from me.
  
  You a man that has done nothing
  but live of my tax dollars.
  
  How dare you sale all of us out.
  
  How dare you shut down whole communities
  and make us dependent on foreign oil again.
  
  How dare you take food from our familys mouths.
  
  How dare you sir.
  
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  AND, I ASK WHO DiD THE UNiONS VOTE FOR ???
  
  Who did the unions vote for?
  Matt Cohrs
  
  • • 
      The Scorpion asked the Turtle
      to give him a ride across the River.
      
      The Turtle complied
      & the Scorpion then stung
      the Turtle to death for having done so....
      and then STATED,
      "What did the Turtle expect ?
      He knew I was a deadly Scorpion
      when I asked him for the Ride".
      Connie Laire
      
      
      • yikes; THE BRAINWASHED
        has actually signed off his note;
        "How dare you sir"
        - sir ???
        
        Susan Lynne Schwenger