As I was reading the stories of the tragic death of the WalMart employee on “Black Friday”, I saw another thread within this story that just flat out pissed me off. I’ll have to refrain from spewing all the other words that came to mind because they are just not lady like, but answer me this, “How the hell does the mumble grumbling union think they could have saved this poor man’s life?”

Granted, the questions that Bruce Both, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, ask are good ones indeed: “Where were the safety barriers? Where was security? How did store management not see dangerous numbers of customers barreling down on the store in such an unsafe manner?”

So the union, like the federal government, thinks that we the people are too stupid to do the right thing? After this tragic incident, I’m really beginning to wonder. We have allowed our population to become so dumbed down by government schools, that it is to the point we can no longer think for ourselves. We have allowed our moral values to decay to the point we no longer value human life.

With what few brain cells we have not allowed the government to gain control over, we must come up with a better way. More government and more unions are not the answers.

Words come flying at me: animals, outrage, herd mentality, loss of respect for other, loss of human dignity.

Read this, outloud: “Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.”

Kimberly Cribbs, got it right when she called them “savages.” A better question was asked What kinds of people rush over a man, then keep coming and stepping on him — and then callously go about shopping?” Police trying to give this man first aid were jostled by customers still running into the store. the incident left Bob Scheiffer wondering about the lack of Christmas spirit. But he said it all when he said “If we have become a people so self-centered that we are willing to step over a lifeless body to get a bargain, we have problems that go beyond terrorists, a credit crunch and bad mortgages.”

There is something else in this tragic event that has me steaming mad, but I want to give this poor man’s death it’s due before I address another callous comment I read related to this incident.