Where's President Reagan when America needs him?

In 1981, a bunch of malcontent Air Traffic Controllers staged an illegal walk-out, essentially grounding much of America's air traffic. President Reagan, having warned them in advance of what he'd do if they did it, kept his word and fired every last one of them, sending a message to unions everywhere--don't try to hold the country hostage.

We need Ronald Regan today more than ever. Today, every commercial port on the West Coast shut down as the unionized longshoremen staged an illegal one-day strike to protest the war in Iraq. They did this after an arbitrator ruled that such an act would be illegal and after their unions promised not to go ahead with it. However it was clearly organized at some level and the unions need to be held responsible, if not replaced outright with new nonunion workers who actually love this country and appreciate being paid an exorbitant amount of money to do relatively little work.
(The average union dockworker today easily makes six figures, and most all of the work is done by machines so no one sweats or gets dirty any more.)

This isn't the first time that we've seen an astounding lack of patriotism and virtue on behalf of these dockworkers. They struck at the height of World War Two, denying our troops much-needed food, ammunition and medical supplies, and they did it again during the Korean War. Seldom in the history of America have we seen a group act so selfishly, putting better Americans than themselves at risk simply to line their own pockets. Well today's west coast Longshoremen are no different and if President Bush were to do as Reagan did, or Harry Truman when he nationalized the steel industry to keep the unions from striking and shutting off the flow of war material, he'd win back my full support in an instant, especially if he moved every one of those unpatriotic Al Qaeda-aiding dock monkeys into the unemployment lines. Better yet: They should be nationalized and sent overseas to move cargo in Iraq and Afghanistan, and paid the same rate as the military personnel now doing those jobs. That'd sure free up a lot of better people to do more important work as well as making room here for a number of people who might even be grateful to get a nice new non-union dockworker job.

With citizens like these longshoremen in America, who really needs foreign enemies?

I'm just saying...

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