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TR>On 10-08-10, BOB KLAHN said to JEFF BINKLEY:



TR>JB> What he fails to realize is how close his rhetoric is to that of
TR>JB> a slave owner.  Odd.


TR>Prior to 1865 Klahn would have been a slave owner.

Indeed.


TR>BK>You lack the moral courage and the intellectual integrity to
TR>BK>address your comments to me.


TR>Tell him to go piss up a rope!

I generally ignore him.


TR>Worker Benefits Mortgaged for Political Contributions? - Katie Gage -
TR>Townhall Conservative


TR>Since the beginning of the 2008 cycle, Big Labor has donated more
TR>than $500 million to political campaigns, with an overwhelming
TR>majority of that going to Members of Congress and candidates for
TR>Federal office who support their job-killing policies. Now, less than
TR>one month away from Election Day, these same union bosses are not
TR>backing down from their aggressive commitment to elect labor-friendly
TR>candidates and continue to increase their political spending, while
TR>their own members, many of whom worked the line for decades paying
TR>into pension programs, fail to receive the benefits they were
TR>promised and have earned.

Most of that money has come from Obama and the government.  


TR>Mismanaged pension plans and poorly run budgets have left workers
TR>across the country struggling to make ends meet, while union officers
TR>and bosses are living high on the hog. Focused on promoting an agenda
TR>which results in lost jobs and bail outs, the goal of Big Labor
TR>bosses is clear: line their own pockets.


TR>Studies have emerged over the past two years showing how grossly
TR>under-funded many union pension plans are, some even falling into
TR>critical status under federal evaluations. Unions like the Service
TR>Employees International Union (SEIU) and American Federation of Labor
TR>and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) that have been the
TR>most vocal and public about their contributions to elect like-minded
TR>candidates, and they are some of the very same ones whose pension
TR>plans are struggling the most. Lacking the financial wherewithal or
TR>concern to follow through on their word, bosses are instead choosing
TR>to spend hard-earned dues on posh officer retreats and political
TR>campaigns aimed at making unionization not just easier, but forced.


TR>We've seen how Big Labor has been able to leverage its relationship
TR>with the Obama Administration to finagle pro-union boss and
TR>anti-worker rules through government agencies, most recently with the
TR>National Mediation Board's (NMB) rule change on union elections in
TR>airline and railroad industries, which overturned a 75 year old
TR>voting precedent. Also consider Craig Becker, President Obama's
TR>appointee to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who is a
TR>former attorney for the SEIU and AFL-CIO, yet refuses to recuse
TR>himself from cases that involve these two unions.

They'll be looking for a bailout.


Jeff

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Hope and change = $1T deficit and 10%+ unemployment .....

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