“I f**k you in ass, you faggot”
(h/t Michelle Makin)
“You are a bad Jew!”
(h/t The Blaze)
Union thug assaults Tabitha Hale
(h/t Jim Hoft)
SEIU thugs assault gay black Tea Party member
(h/t redwhitebluenews)
Tea Party activist knocked to the ground in Massachusetts.
The loss of collective bargaining does not bust unions. It does not remove their ability to bargain for wages, contrary to the stupidity we’re all seeing.
At one time unions served some kind of purpose, but they are irrelevant today other than serving as a means of guaranteeing mediocrity. Unions brought the auto industry to its knees and Obama has pinned the bill for their legacy costs on our futures.
Their are safety rules, there are wage rules and there are age rules.
Unions are dinosaurs and clearly, if you make them cross they will eat you alive.
In fact, they eat you alive anyway.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 40 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 45 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter who is in the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
Could not agree more! Many call Obama Stupid – Yes, Socialist – Yes, Left-Wing radical – Yes, an Idiot – NO. This is where we must all see the writing on the wall, he is no idiot, just like all the nut cases in history, they know exactly what they are doing. Sure he wants to accept lesbian and homosexual marriages, sure he wants to support the unions, sure he wants free health care for all, sure he wants to protect and expand entitlements, sure he wants to share and distribute the wealth, Absolutely, let us become the hand out state where the only place we can turn to is the government. Now bring this all to his home, to his family, then the buck stops there. The nest B=Day for the Obama girls they shoudl invite over al ltheir lesbian and homosexual couples and let’s see how the Obama’s can explain to their two girls that this is the new accepted American family – the best explanation is how they reproduce offsprings, lolol….This is prototypical of all socialist – elitists. Bring the population down to their needs, grow the government, regulate free enterprise until they are strangled and must give in to government control…then it is all ready for a socialist society, socialist market and socialist control of every aspect of our lives. As the economy goes into the second deep, dip, we must all be prepared to stand up for our values, protect our freedoms and DO NOT ALLOW the fringe elements to take over. Let the our voices be the loudest and be ready to protect ourselves, our families and our American way of life at all costs. Remember, the same people who are demonstrating today and the same fools that will be coming to us from protection.
In one school district alone the end of non-wages collective bargaining means they can get away from the Teachers’ Union’s own medical insurer….the WEA Trust.
The savings will be $600,000 the first year!
I don’t know how many school districts in Wisconsin are stuck with that medical coverage sham, but it is savings like that in every part of Wisconsin that will save budgets from city to county to state.
Many examples here.
Again, this still allows teachers to use collective bargaining for wages.
How many of those protesting AFSCME, a large part of the teachers in Wisconsin, know that the international president of their union is knocking down a tony $479,328 a year plus benefits and expenses?
Labor laws prevent companies from abusing their employees. There is no reason for unions, unless a member is under the assumption that if they go on strike, they will receive strike benefits from their union. Ooooops, a quick check of union strike benefits show that most unions have NO money in those funds. Seems they spent so much money getting a Marxist elected, they drained their stike benefit funds.
No one thing has caused jobs to go off shore than the unions have. It’s called “pricing yourself out of a job”, you dummies.
All of this is so disturbing. I will admit that for over 20 years I was a member of a union. I faithfully paid my dues and what I received in return was pretty much nothing. I also will admit that for years I tried to cease my membership but was always given some excuse why I couldn’t (e.g., I had to stop my membership on the day that I enrolled). I actually felt at times that the only way to get out of the union was to die. Finally I was able to wrangle free.
I learned a lot about the unions. If you are a union member even if they know you are guilty of doing something wrong in the workplace they will defend you to the nth degree. I have to believe that unions have outlasted their usefulness and the only reason they are fighting is that they will 1. lose control of the people, and 2. will lose millions of dollars they use to support their personal agendas.
The Marty Lamb link has been blocked or removed.
You can see it here:
They are cornered and dangerous.
For Nan G: Wisconsin’s largest teachers’ union is an extremely profitable insurance business that happens to provide services to children on the side
This is the Face of the Unions…
Trumka — The Eddie York Slaying
United Mine Workers President, 25 Years Ago Now AFL-CIO Head and meets with Obama once a week?
Yup. That’s the Guy that has Obama’s ear.
Old Trooper, thanks for posting that. I do not understand why anyone would be surprised about Trumka’s backround and association with Obama; he fits right in with Obama’s other terrorist associates like Ayers etc.
An excellent day? Obama leaving the White House…. in handcuffs.
@ Scott in Oklahoma, Some Folks get VETTED before they get a Job…Some Folks don’t…
Let’s be honest about what this whole thing is about:
the public sector unions have been feeding off the public taxpayer teat for generation. They would spend their money to get Democrats elected and those Democrats would agree to cities and states paying outragous salaries and benefits. So the ones who were really getting screwed were the taxpayers that are expected to pick up the tab. And the left talks about greed. All they have to do is look at the greed of the public sector unions.
Last November the Democrats got their asses kicked in elections all across the nation. States that have always been under Democratic control now have not only the governor’s office Republican, but both Houses. The power, and the control, is gone. And so is the gravy train for public sector unions as the former Democrats let those unions run their states in the financial ground. And the Democrats and their union minions know it.
But the unions can take this just so far. And the Wisconsin Democrats are playing with fire as the unions represent only a small portion of the populace of that state. Someone needs to remind them how that whole “flee bagger” thing worked out for the Texas Democrats. In 2003, the Dems held 88 of 151 Texas seats. Now they hold 49 and the Republicans have a filibuster proof majority. Things like voter I.D. was just recently approved by the Texas Senate, and with so many R’s in the Texas Congress, it is sure to pass. Also, the R’s of Texas just passed a sonigram requirement for all abortions in the state of Texas. So all the things the Texas D’s have been fighting, they are losing. All because they skipped out on their jobs in 2003 and fled to New Mexico.
There are approximately 17% of Americans who are un/underemployed and I doubt they have very much sympathy for these Wisconsin union thugs. If I were Governor Walker, I would fire the lot of them and if I could not do that, I would damn sure tell every city and county that there will be not one damn dime spent on those locals until the Democrats man up and return home.
@retire05, #11:
A recent Gallup poll found that 61% oppose a law in their own state similar Scott Walker’s proposal. Only 33% responded that they would favor such a law.
Walker made a serious political miscalculation. He’s provided working and middle class Americans with an issue that has become a rallying point, and is going to have serious national repercussions for republicans in 2012. Union protests are spreading across the states like wildfire. The danger is so obvious that his approach has alreadly lost the support of 4 other republican governors.
Any similar miscalculation in the Republican majority House of Representatives will likely prove to be disasterous.
Ah, let’s hear it for the regurgitation of the union and media talking points INRE workers rights and collective bargaining by Greg, above. Thanks for that USA/Gallup poll. Notice how simply the question is worded, assuming the poll responder has a clue? Dangerous assumption, it seems.
Of course, the problem is that so many citizens have now been the unwitting beneficiaries of a union controlled public school system, they are clueless to collective bargaining rights, and it’s effect on controlling hiring/firing of teachers using quality over tenure. But then it’s hard to battle union thug mouthpieces and their puppets, screaming “workers rights”… forgetting to note that at best it’s 7-8% of all US earners that are the “workers” involved in these so called “rights”. And that all they are demanding is at the price of the other 93% of working people.
So far, only Dick Morris has done a poll in Wisconsin with a before and after comparison of collective bargaining, explaining the devil in the bargaining details in simple language the WI folks responding seemed to require…
Amazing what a little education can do to poll results, eh? Not such a pretty picture anymore when the truth comes out in Wisconsin.
But then truth and education is not what the unions want. This is their last stand… the private unions have virtually been obliterated, and the public sector and their control over all levels of government is now at risk. That’s why MoveOn.org, Organizing for America, the SEIU etal are dragging every hair brained dodo bird out of the woodwork to sing their praises, never knowing how utterly stupid they really are on it’s effect on budgets and quality of school education.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1901/04/unions.htm
Any wonder why the unions have the support of Obama, and he of them?
@ johngalt, Organized Labor is a Money Cow for Obama and His Crowd.
Follow the Money.
@Old Trooper2:
True, but the money is more a means to an end for that crowd.
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
The change of America from a proud republic to a whimpering socialist state is their goal, and the money being thrown around between organized labor, the federal government, and people like Soros, is intended only to gain the power, necessary to affect that change. Whether that power, gained through money, is taken from the willing or unwilling is of little consequence to them.
Can you imagine?
Good-to-excellent teaching teachers being laid off so the ”jobs” of 2,000 to 4,000 NON-TEACHING teachers can stay on the payroll!
It is NOT ”for the children” at all!
@Nan G:
It never was, Nan. Decades upon decades of teachers rallying around the cry “It’s for the children!”, have been nothing more than lies.
@OldTrooper2
Trumka, unsurprisingly, is for higher taxes upon the working populace to…….get this……………create jobs! Of course, it involves soaking those who work out of more of their hard-earned money so that the government can then give it to union workers for “infrastructure”.
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/02/26/trumka-best-way-to-create-jobs-is-to-raise-taxes/
The economically illiterate should not have the President’s ear on fiscal matters. What this guy doesn’t explain, because he is too ignorant to do so, is that higher fuel prices result in higher costs for every product you buy, anywhere. People will cut back even more, if possible, depressing many industries even further as less product is purchased by consumers. You go on, round and round with the economic impact of higher taxation and yet still have the Idiocracy claiming it’s “the right thing to do”.
I kind of like the delay these Democrats are causing until the vote on Wisconsin’s school reform.
Here’s why:
The longer the debate goes on, the more stuff comes out for people to learn about.
Like this:
Just another facet of the issue we would not have learned, had Wisconsin Democrats in the Senate simply quietly voted.
Heh!
@Nan G:
I’ll add this to the list of unsurprising actions by the teacher’s unions:
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/26/nea-to-double-member-dues-contribution-to-political-war-chest/
And who is it that rails against political spending by corporations?
@johngalt:
Thanks, JohnGalt.
I have encouraged union members to avail themselves of arrangements to keep all the money that unions spend on anything (politics, included) other than their own representation.
@johngalt, #16:
Why do I suspect that concentrated wealth and power in America might also have organized to protect and further their own collective interests?
They’ve made a remarkably effective job of it, if the astonishing upward concentration of the nation’s total wealth and income is any indication. They’re also doing a remarkably effective job of demonizing anyone or anything presuming to organize a challenge that trend.
@ Greg, OK Pardner, Show Me in the US Constitution where “Redistribution of Wealth” was the desire of the Founding Fathers.
Your ability to Para Phrase Marx, Mao, Lenin and Stalin quite frankly make Me curious about where Your Loyalties are parked. I employ Full Time directly over 40 hard working and well paid people in a Business that they have run in My Absence due to Deployments and makes both a Profit and a Good Living for them. Go talk Union or Organizing to them and You will see some Folks that will at best laugh in your Face and worse case ask You how much You want to steal from Them!
I don’t know What You do for a living or Who You work/worked for but I doubt if You ever met a payroll, were held in compliance by the State and Federal Agencies that I comply with or produce much in the line of anything useful.
Everywhere Socialism has been tried on the Planet has resulted in Poverty and Failure for the Working Folks. There is no Free Ice Cream. Someone pays for it. I reckon that You are closer to the receiving end of the chain than the Paying End. The concentration of Wealth CREATES Jobs. The confiscation of Wealth through Over Reach, Meddling, Over Taxation, Intrusion into the Private Sector destroys Them.
You set Yourself up for criticism here every time you get onto that Redistribution of Wealth Jag. Read “The Wealth of Nations” if You are able to grasp something more than the Socialist Crap that seems to constitute 99.99% of Your Talking Points here. Adam Smith could give You a basic notion of how Economics works. You are quite frankly Not Getting It!
@Old Trooper2, #23:
Is there anything in the Constitution suggesting that Americans aren’t allowed to organize to obtain a larger share of the wealth that’s produced from the work they do and the services they render?
Wanting an ever-increasing share of that to be distributed upward seems to be perfectly OK; wanting an increased share to be distributed downward is apparently fundamentally un-American.
@ Greg, You Dodged the Question as I expected. This is obviously the limits of Your tactical arsenal.
No Answers forthcoming as per usual, just drivel and propaganda. Why am I not surprised?
@Greg:
How do you respond to someone who willfully ignores historical evidence and experience? Do you not understand that business owners and corporations reinvest the profits made back into their company or business, either through expansion of services/products or area covered? They create jobs when they do so, unlike the government taking wealth, which only redistributes it. As for people wishing a higher wage for the service they render to an employer, who is to say that they are not paid fairly for the work they do? You? Obama? Some fatcat union manager pulling in multiple times the average union member? How about the employer? That would be my answer, and if they do not, then they lose workers to the competition, or to other industries. There is nothing preventing those people from seeking gainful employment elsewhere, as I and many others have done from time to time.
Even if that were true, they would be hard pressed to equal the concentration of wealth and power the unions have amassed towards political expenditures:
http://www.followthemoney.org/database/top10000.phtml?PHPSESSID=6a8f67e0d24618da7d8b1a960ecbc670
No, not that I know of. And there is nothing in the Constitution stating that the people have to give in to their demands either. The case in WI is really best described as the people of WI vs. public employee unions. The people elected Walker Governor. The people placed majority control in the Republicans hands. The people of WI decided enough was enough and voted for “change”. The problem you, and other liberals have, is that it doesn’t fit your ideal world, the narrative on life you all have built up with falsehoods and outright lies.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1901/04/unions.htm
I invite you again to explain to the conservative readers here how we are wrong in linking unions to the goals of the socialist doctrines.
@Nan G:
Here’s another for the list of unsurprising actions taken by unions in their quest to thieve more wealth from the taxpayer:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/02/nyc_taxpayers_pay_9_million_to.html
Fleece, fleece, and then fleece some more because it ain’t their money. Truly, anyone who can defend such practices needs their heads examined, stat.
I agree with Rush Limbaugh when he called “union dues” money laundering.
@johngalt, #26:
A recent poll suggest that Wisconsin voters aren’t particularly happy with Walker’s attack on public employee unions, or with the job he’s doing.
Walker didn’t say word one about summarily eliminating Wisconsin public employees’ collective bargain rights during his governor’s campaign. If he thinks he had some sort of mandate from Wisconsin voters to do so, he’s imagining it.
@Greg:
Must’ve missed this, heh?
Let’s see you find the problems in their methodology, greg.
I did.
It wasn’t even difficult.
1st hint:
The ”poll” was sponsored by the AFL-CIO, Change to Win and the NEA.
@ Greg, OK. Will they file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy then and just shut down the State or close down half of the Schools like Detroit?
You can’t have that Cake and eat it too. When the borrowed from China Federal Stimulus money runs out the Free Ice Cream is gone too.
Dammit! I hate when that happens!
@Greg:
So…………we are expected to believe a poll, conducted at the behest of the AFL-CIO, by a democratic polling firm, on issues relating to teachers unions, of which some are affiliated with the AFL-CIO (http://www.scfl.org/?ulnid=1655), and take it as gospel that the taxpayers in WI are against Gov. Walker’s legislation?
Let’s take this in pieces, shall we?
-Gov. Walker is NOT “summarily eliminating Wisconsin public employees’ collective bargain rights”. You continue to spin the truth about the legislation and what it actually will accomplish, all for the sake of continuing the liberal’s narrative on the topic.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/6458-wisconsin-protests-the-reforms-the-reality
-As for him not saying “word one” about this particular issue, you are correct, however, upon one actually reading his issue stances on his campaign website, the general idea of this legislation is right there for people to see once they take off the blinders.
http://www.scottwalker.org/issues/government-reform
-Walker won election 52% to 42%.
-WI state assembly, 60-R, 38-D, Ind-1
-WI state senate, 19-R, 14-D
All races turned to Republican control in the 2010 elections, in significant changes to the overall makeup of the Wisconsin legislature. I’d contend that the voters in WI decided enough was enough when it came to D’s leading the state. Whether or not you want to call it a mandate, or in your case, deny it, the state of WI decided conservatively in Nov. 2010.
As for the actual bill itself, it is not right, and it is never right, to expect the taxpayers to foot the bill for excessive pension and benefits liabilities, particularly when they themselves are hurting economically. When the taxpayers realize the truth about the legislation, and not the spin you and your liberal buddies are spreading around, my belief is that they will side with the Gov.
@johngalt: Great post, John.
Greg
Polls? This is a little weak for you, isn’t it? Seems to me I remember most Americans being against Obamacare and now 2/3 want it repealed.
I don’t remember a single Democrat giving a damn about the polls.
Until November.
Now, Obama is starting to care as he is going to allow states to exempt themselves from his clutches. It must be recalled that things Obama says mean nothing.
According to a 21 February Rasmussen poll, likely 2012 voters favor Walker’s stance over the unions’, by a 48 to 38 percent margin. Another Rasmussen survey shows that 67 percent of voters believe Wisconsin Democrats were wrong in fleeing the state rather than voting on Walker’s budget proposals. The MSM probably won’t be citing those results any time soon.