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2011-05-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Bobby 2011-05-22 08:18|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Everything that's wrong with unions, right there. They don't represent their members, they represent themselves.

Posted by gromky 2011-05-22 09:37|| 2011-05-22 09:37|| Front Page Top

#2 "The unions have cited what they see as Democrats' tepid response to Republican efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for public sector workers, cut Medicare funding and require voters to show identification at the polls."

Proving once again that even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Outside of a few ideological extremists even the Dems have figured out that labor in general and public sector labor in particular is grossly overpaid, not only in their paychecks but in the hyperregulatory work environment which represents an additional type of compensation for workers, and that said overpayment must go away or the country will.

Posted by no mo uro 2011-05-22 10:12|| 2011-05-22 10:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I like the sympathy meter.

Unions, not so much.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2011-05-22 13:50|| 2011-05-22 13:50|| Front Page Top

#4 "The unions have cited what they see as Democrats' tepid response to Republican efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for public sector workers, cut Medicare funding and require voters to show identification at the polls."

Awwwwww, da' poor babeeeeeees.

Time was, when you bought a ~~DemocRat~~ politician, he stayed bought. Guess there really is no honor among thieves.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-05-22 14:18|| 2011-05-22 14:18|| Front Page Top

#5 How wonderful, the objective to get unions out of politics has been achieved with relatively effort. I'm very pleased they figured it out on their own.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-22 18:22|| 2011-05-22 18:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Yokay, once again I'll bite, merits notwithsanding in this WAR FOR OWG-NWO AKA THE GWOT, + by extension[multipolar/lateral]
"GLOBALISM", REGIONALISM + CONTINENTALISM,
"TRANS-NATIONALISM", ... @ETC. does it make sense for US-BASED = AFL-CIO Unions to stay "Nationalist" only in focii???

["LAW-N-ORDER", "LNO:SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT" OPEINNG CREDITS here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-22 22:40|| 2011-05-22 22:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, I suppose the article itself is proof of exactly the sort of corruption we have long suspected and they had long denied.

So this is basically an admission that the unions had expected those politicians to be "bought and paid for" and when they didn't get their expected results, they hold back the cash expecting the politicians to come back on their knees groveling in order to get it back.

The Democrats are in sort of a double bind. If they cave to the unions, we throw them out of office. If they don't cave to the unions, they lose a good chunk of their campaign funds.

Posted by crosspatch 2011-05-22 23:35|| 2011-05-22 23:35|| Front Page Top

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