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I would vote to have Walker flayed on the capitol steps.
There was a huge sign displayed in the Wisconsin State House by a group of protesters. It read
TAX THE RICH
I think the people are getting it, despite the corporate media silence on the issue.
I need help please, Thom has mentioned a couple of times a site that lists board of directors of companies, can you tell me the link or post it?
Thank you
Mike
Us union guys pump money back into main street.
I think this man has nailed shut his own coffin and his political career is over. He is just not bright enough to figure it out yet.
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of course I wouldn't vote for the SOB, but what is more interesting and significnt is the "I told you so" vote for conservative republicans and you shoot yourself in the foot. Do you think the American people are beginning to learn their lesson. They have no one to blame but themselves..... ignornce has its consequences
To say that public workers unions are too powerful because "they elect their own boss" or have money to give to campaigns is beyond specious and mendacious.
First, why shouldn't someone elect their own boss? Isn't that a democratic ideal? The Tea Partiers and other conservatives fail to say what is wrong with that. Are the workers not citizens? Do they not have a right to their influence on government? The unions don't elect "their own boss" themselves. The rest of the electorate elects them as well and that "boss" is the representative of all the taxpayers not just of the union members. Why should anyone think the unions' influence will not be in proportion to their share of the electorate?
Why shouldn't labor be powerful? Why shouldn't they have money to give to campaigns? Isn't that "free speech" as set by Citizens United? Why should only business elites have free speech?
Why should only employers and business people be powerful. Most of us aren't business people but work for them. Why shouldn't the majority of people have power? Why should only big businesses have power and influence? Is there reason to think business elites have disproportionate influence on government?
Analysis of Anti-union adjenda
It is very strange to think about the unlying message to the systematic distruction of collective bargaining. I keep thinking about the reason why there would be such a movement. It makes logical sense to conclude that after Citizens United made it reasonable for a corporation to contribute money to political campaigns, the labor force behind that corporation's income would want to have shared interest in any such political campaign. I will illustrate with an example;
Suppose I have a company with 100 employees. As the voting majority share-holder, I decide to allocate a fixed amount of money for political campaigning in an upcoming election. But my employees are all tall people (nothing wrong with that right?), but I decide to run ads that promote an adjenda that would lower every door knob 1 foot (I am a short guy). Now, everyone in my company has built the very capitol that I intend to use for this ad. But the very idea I am promoting has no positive effect (if leaglized) on my labor force. But if I had a union representing that labor force, they would want to have a voice in how my political contributions are made.
This is the real reason the GOP is targeting unions. If the Unions in this country WAKE UP and say "What The F!?! A shaving off the profits accumlated by our labor force goes to campaigns that have un-truthful, propoganda? We need to have every member of the union in the company donate to whom they see fit on a PER PERSON basis not a SHARE HOLDER basis."
A highly liberal, female, member of any Koch company work force should have as loud a voice and as much influence over the political contributions in the current political chess game. Such a woman needs representation in words AND MONEY to defend women's rights from GOP house members today as well as defend true democracy and fair elections to come.
-Adam.
Are you trying to get fired?!
Don’t you know that’s what happens to the squeaky wheel?
It’s not about making things right or someday getting to retire,
We have to work until we are in the ground. No Deals.
And our children, and theirs, and on and on,
They say that’s what this is about.
Where was that urgency and concern at the dawn
Of increasing cries of “No taxes” and “Yes, War” without any doubt?
We’re in today’s history books
Rewriting the pages that we just passed.
Sometime someone’s actually going to look,
The shell game we are living just can’t last.
“The people” of whom the loudest scream
Have actually got no voice.
Corporations have purchased outright the “American Dream”,
Fists shoved down the working man’s throat.
When asking to breathe after working all our lives
After trusting and paying our due
Becomes selfish greed; infringement of rights
Upon the corporations that are now people too
The real question to be asked in this “shared sacrifice”
Is “Exactly what is this costing you?”
My planned $50,000 a year is enough for me to get by with a smile,
$500 million isn’t enough for who?
Since corporations achieved "personhood" by the supreme court, then let's figure out how to declare them to be psycopaths, like the documentary "the corporation" methodically shows many of them to be and then have them taken over by socially responsible non profits! Psycopaths are destructive to society and we must be protected from them.
Analysis of Anti-union adjenda
It is very strange to think about the unlying message to the systematic distruction of collective bargaining. I keep thinking about the reason why there would be such a movement. It makes logical sense to conclude that after Citizens United made it reasonable for a corporation to contribute money to political campaigns, the labor force behind that corporation's income would want to have shared interest in any such political campaign. I will illustrate with an example;
Suppose I have a company with 100 employees. As the voting majority share-holder, I decide to allocate a fixed amount of money for political campaigning in an upcoming election. But my employees are all tall people (nothing wrong with that right?), but I decide to run ads that promote an adjenda that would lower every door knob 1 foot (I am a short guy). Now, everyone in my company has built the very capitol that I intend to use for this ad. But the very idea I am promoting has no positive effect (if leaglized) on my labor force. But if I had a union representing that labor force, they would want to have a voice in how my political contributions are made.
This is the real reason the GOP is targeting unions. If the Unions in this country WAKE UP and say "What The F!?! A shaving off the profits accumlated by our labor force goes to campaigns that have un-truthful, propoganda? We need to have every member of the union in the company donate to whom they see fit on a PER PERSON basis not a SHARE HOLDER basis."
A highly liberal, female, member of any Koch company work force should have as loud a voice and as much influence over the political contributions in the current political chess game. Such a woman needs representation in words AND MONEY to defend women's rights from GOP house members today as well as defend true democracy and fair elections to come.
-Adam.
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The Prank phone call has shown that Gov. Walker has a lack of remorse, shame or guilt. he has a grandiose sense of self. he's manipulative and conning he has a glibness and superficial charm. he has no empathy Pathological lying. these are some of the traits of a sociopath. this is what i believe and i wanted to state my felings.
The same war on Education that is going on in Wisconsin is simultaneously happening here in Texas. Very very slowly a segment of the population down here seem to be waking up from their tea party induced haze.
Last night on the Lawerence Odonnel show the Wisconsin State Republican leader admitted that the reason for putting no-bid sale of Wisconsin public power assets was due to the fact that they are in such dis-repair that they would be lucky to get someone to buy them. The question then becomes why are they in such dis-repair? Obviously the politicians didn't fund those projects to properly maintain them, thus neglecting the public's investment, running them into the ground. Then they want to sell them off cheap, let the private company take them over where they can invest money, get the tax breaks from the tax payers (who ultimately pay for the plants again!), then take to profits. They need to be called out on this.
After every election, I go to house.gov and senate.gov to see who's in charge of the various committees (and put the information in a spreadsheet, because I'm a nerd). I had never before seen partisan messages on these websites, but now that the Republicans are back in control of the House, they've decided to put this unseemly language on the home pages of websites that are supposed to serve a bi-partisan purpose.
Why do I love the United States? We know that our nation is transparent. But, for me, I love our country because of the smell of napalm in the morning and burning human flesh in the evening.
Why this question is not even being discussed in the national media, in the New York Times, in the corridors of government... is simply obscene. Why instead of immediately going to the most vulnerable parts of our population, the ones who already shoulder the major burden of keeping this government on track, taking one more thing (bargaining rights) from them, and not even looking at the paper trail that leads back to Wall Street, the crooks, banksters, billionaires and money lords, makes it hard to conclude that justice, or anything under that name, reigns in this country. And unless somebody, Obama, perhaps?, begins to take this matter seriously, the tinderbox of righteous fury created by the insanity that has come to govern this country could detonate any moment. It's time the Walkers, the Boehners and the other rich riffraff who run this country from the golf courses get their due.
No! Why slow their descent into hell?
Here is a cat's toy.
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2011/03/01/the-perfect-cat-toy-you-already-own.aspx
U.S. warships are ready to attack Libya. The U.S. war machine loves the killing of God's children. War is a serious matter; there is knowledge ahead of time that an attack is wrong; and the United States of Mortal Sin is giving full consent to the attack. The United States has her soul damned again and again. War is the name and mass murders is the game.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/022711.html
Gates comments on Bush's wars!
Reflection of the week: “There comes a time in every person’s life when you have to decide you’ll stand for something, or fall for everything. I have made my choice to stand up. It’s either do the right, but scary, thing, or be taken advantage of and let things stay the same.” —Elyse, a member of the Hyatt Regency Union Committee in Indianapolis.
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