Judging Freedom - Is Biden right about the Middle Class_

Episode Date: June 15, 2022

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Resolve to earn your degree in the new year in the Bay with WGU. With courses available online 24-7 and monthly start dates, WGU offers maximum flexibility so you can focus on your future. Learn more at wgu.edu. Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Wednesday, June 15, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Wednesday, June 15, 2022. It's about 2.25 in the afternoon on the east coast of the United States. Yesterday, the President of the United States traveled from Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia

to deliver the keynote address at the annual convention of the AFL-CIO, and he made some, what I think are over-the-top comments. His tone was great. He was very strong and very forceful. And for the Democrats, which is probably not many people watching us now, but for the Democrats, I say you need old Joe to be more like he was yesterday. But he can also be off the wall. In a few moments, you'll hear him say, unions built the middle class. Well, the middle class is where people went when they got out of poverty, and they got out of poverty because the government got out of the way and made it easier for rich people to hire poor people so they could enter the middle class. Do unions do any good? Yes,

they do. You like a five-day work week? Thank the unions. You like a 40-hour work week? Thank the unions. You like weekends off? Thank the unions. Libertarians believe in the right to associate. You can freely associate. You can join a union. We also believe in the right not to associate. The states cannot compel you to join a union. We also believe that the states can't compel businesses to negotiate with a union. The businesses decide with whom they want to negotiate, with individual workers or with groups of workers. So there's only so far the unions can go until they capture the political power of the government because they vote for the Democrats. All right, here's Joe sounding off. Wall Street didn't build this country. The middle class built this country

and unions built the middle class. I'm not joking. Without unions, there'd be no middle class. All right, over the top, Joe. Most members of labor unions are in the middle class, but they built things with their hands in these labor unions. The middle class is a socioeconomic category of people who are not yet rich, meaning you work for a living, you don't live off your investments, and they're, thanks be to God, not poor, meaning you're not living off the government transferring wealth from someone else to you. You're somewhere between living off your own investments and living off what the government provides. That middle is the great middle class. I was raised in a blue-collar household in the

middle class. If somebody had told my late father, God rest his soul, that unions built the middle class, he wouldn't have been able to stop laughing. But I get it. Joe's numbers are sinking. He's always been pro-union. He got very good press from the speech he gave yesterday. But when he says outrageous things like this, we'll call him on it. Judge Napolitano, a friend of labor unions, judging freedom. Resolve to earn your degree in the new year in the Bay with WGU. WGU is an online accredited university that specializes in personalized learning. With courses available 24-7 and monthly start dates, you can earn your degree on your schedule. You may even be able to graduate sooner than you think by demonstrating mastery of the material you know. Make 2025 the year you focus on your future.

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