@meccaturbo Nothing new here. Whites have been so stupid as to vote against their own interests from the early 17th century!!! That is how the rich white landowner kept a hold on the country. That is a fact. Whites are still more racist than smart in america.
@meccaturbo What is the matter you shitstained republican............your tongue getting hard? Republicans are the fucking scum of the earth that have betrayed the American people and tea party trash like you would not come up for air until you swallowed every drop of lying, stealing, cheating, cum that a republican could shoot your way. Bon appetite cum breath. Vote out all shitstained Wall Street loving republicans from the ranks of the employed.
Obama gonna "fight for people like us"? Yeah right, Trumka retard...Obama's presidency is being bought just as much as Bush's was. Trumka is as dumb as you can possibly get.
As long as our governmet keeps giving away money to the global corporate interests, they will continue to exercise their free will by using that money in foreign lands for profit. They will never build in America if the American people let them continue to get tax breaks to hire outside the US. Why should they? Since 2001 the rich have gotten a tax break along with american money invested in foreign markets. Now republicans want to give them more tax breaks to hire overseas. Fuck a republican!
Totally absurd for someone to state that the Tea Party members held our debt ceiling limit hostage when everyone in the House who didn't agree that the increase should be paid for could also be said to have been holding it hostage also. We were downgraded because we raised the debt ceiling. Period. Fact of the matter is, If we had made cuts in spending like the Tea Party wanted we would not have been downgraded by S&P.
Well for your information a great majority of businesses in the US never hire people. They have the same amount of employees they have had for decades. But their salaries help pay taxes. And their salaries contribute to their local economies. So it does not matter if these guys are jacking off in a field from now till they choke. Their salaries will contribute to the economy. I guess you did better at recess in the backyard than you did in homeschool.
The bears did not like the speech last night. They see the republicans looking as small minded as ever and perhaps will never get the whitehouse next election. Those bears want that whitehouse bad and are afraid that most Americans think Obama looks 1000 times better than anything republicans have to offer. But republicans will offer more money and more tax breaks for the bears. That speech got 'em nervous.
@teabaggersblow It took a while to understand that "bears" translates into rich people. I am not certain what recent poll you are using, but most Americans disagree with your take on Obama. His administration has not turned the tide of financial irresponsibility in government and his ideas have not brought prosperity to this country. Did the speech say how unemployment would be solved? Green energy jobs? Like those of Solyndra?
@tenhirankei You really don't get out much. " BEARS & BULLS" Everyone investing, is considered the herd complex. But when the whales or Bears are ready to make a profit , they make a profit and if you do not get off when they do, you lose your ass like those Enron employees lost their ass when Bush' government locked them out of selling their own shares. But the rich CEO's of Enron got out when the getting was good. And of course so did the bears. Bears can afford watching the market.
@teabaggersblow I agree that Enron upper management should not have not been allowed to cash-out their shares, if the other employees could not. I remember selling my shares of a lesser company that had a stock split. It split again in less than a year. I was upset that I had not held my shares longer, until I discovered that the next split had been rigged.
@tenhirankei That insider trading has been going on as long as the stock exchange has been tied to an electrical line. Polls are driven by landlines. Although I still have one, most people today have cell phones. So your polls take on very little meaning when it comes to concensus. But it is a talking point republicans can harken back to for comfort. Congress is looking at a 12% approval rating. Imagine what it would be from cell phone users. Fuck a slant eyed loving republican.
@teabaggersblow What do polls have to do with this? And was the last sentence in your comment truly necessary? Now you sound like a vulgar bigot, not who you really are.
@tenhirankei Read your very own posts. You said most Americans disagree with my take on Obama. My take on Obama is like my take on any politician. Corporate america has been transformed into corporate greed with one party and half of another party doing their bidding. Yea republicans go in lock stock and barrel. For me giving away perks to companies just becasue you can makes that person a fucking whore. And I believe republicans are 100% whore.
@teabaggersblow Infrastructure improvement is a government job. While they do a necessary service, it is maintenence work. Unless they are building roads and bridges that are needed to handle extra traffic or to shorten distances, they are not producing anything.
@tenhirankei Well for your information a great majority of businesses in the US never hire people. They have the same amount of employees they have had for decades. But their salaries help pay taxes. And their salaries contribute to their local economies. Their salaries will contribute to the economy. I guess you did better at recess in the backyard than you did in homeschool. Local economies will suffer with republican hairbrained job killing ideas.
@teabaggersblow The businesses that you describe have the same amount of employees, because they have turn-over of employees and automation of some jobs. How many automoble factory jobs disappeared because of automation? What did the AFL-CIO do about that to protect union jobs? Could they even do anything? Also I did not do so well at recess and I attended public schools. And you might approve of "green energy" jobs, they are neither Republican nor hairbrained(?).
@tenhirankei What impresses me is how teabagged fucks like you did not want to extend the debt limit. I am so impressed that I would voluntarily piss on every job killing bill any one of you fucks ever tries to get passed in the House. And hopefully any and all teabaggers who do not pay for child support should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law before they make their trailer payment.
@teabaggersblow Extending the debt-limit is as helpful to job creation, as extending the limit on a credit card is to your personal finances. The more in interest you have to pay the credit card companies on money they ley you use, the less spending money you have later on. But then government does not have to pay their bill, we do. By the way any and all liberals should also be prosecuted for the same thing that you mentioned.
@tenhirankei Republicans and teatards like you want it both ways. Republicans say there is uncertainity in the marketplace and that is why America will not create jobs. Well when the teabagged republicans decided to hold our debt limit hostage.......guess what? It created uncertainity in the marketplace and now it is barely tredding water. In the future I ask all you dumbasses grasping at straws to grab one and hold on to it until the next new normal comes along.
@teabaggersblow The uncertainty is caused by the costs of hiring new employees. Between hiring regulations and trying to find the right person for a particular, you have to factor in how much does a new hire cost against how much will their labor produce. Businesses have to turn a profit or they go under, unless Washington wants to bail them out. Then the taxpayer gets to help prevent unemployment, but the new hire is paying taxes to keep a company going so he can have a job.
Close republican tax loopholes. Build a new infrastructure in America. Put people back to work and quit letting republicans downgrade our economic rating. They want America to fail. For God's sake these are corporate tool loving republicans. They care less about America buying their products than not ever paying another tax to our country from now until the end of time. Loopholes for the rich have been voted on since republicans have had control. Look it up. Republicans are corporate tools!
It amazes me how republicans can sit back and condemn everything from the EPA to FEMA and continue to act all indignant about our government and its function while they sit there all pious with their hands playing pocket pool and their mind in Arkansas. And we have ignorant dumbfuck teabaggers that think they are actually governing. hahahahaha It is fucking hilarious!
Hmmm. WHERE ARE OUR JOBS!? Oh, yeah. WHERE IS OUR HOPE AND CHANGE!? Oh, yeah. It's a sad day when the last "decent president" was ten years ago! Where the hell are our jobs?
Who cares if he's black, white, or asian. I'm still waiting for my truckload of "hope and change". They need to get the goddamn richkids out of the cabinet, out of lobbying, out of our congress's pockets, and start doing something for the man on the street.
@redreaper2020 Hey the last time I looked there was a two party system. The republican party is the party of fuck you and fuck him. They will fuck anything that moves. So whenever you get the republican party to quit shooting the fucking victims in this society, we may start taking you more serious.
@teabaggersblow Remember. We're no longer voting for who we LIKE, but who we DISLIKE LESS...so I still get stuck voting for Obama, because I'm not gonna be led by a republican (remember bush?) or a dumb teabagger.
@redreaper2020 I agree. It is definitely not the best way to run a republic. When both sides quit having drive bys and start sitting down and discussing this countries future we all may have a reason for trust again. Right now Americans are looking at a one dog fight. Republican politicians bitch and whine but will not take this countries problems for what they are worth. Problems. You get winged while republicans are in power and they want to chew off your whole fucking arm.
@teabaggersblow They screwed up the country. Someone came in to fix it. Now they try to capitalize on the problems they started, in a stupid attempt to maintain power. Dumb fucks like that, who won't do anything that doesn't benefit them (remember the debt ceiling debate?), are running the country into the ground.
I think Obama's 2012 campaign should be a big picture of bush with "remember last time?" written on it. I'm annoyed he moves so slow, but he's miles ahead of the competition.
@redreaper2020 I have always thought our GDP should grow at a 3% clip. Our inflation should coincide with that number and Americans should get much more than 1% interest on savings accounts. Playing musical chairs with homes and commercial properties and Gramm (R) ramming through the derivatives law were big mistakes. But when the republicans passed the law that stopped any prosecution for banks selling insurance (credit default swaps) without a license, it was just a matter of time.
Really, it shocks me how they're dragging their feet on this. The basic economy policies from the late 40s to early 70s were simple, yet they worked. And now the idiots in power seem to forget that the answers are basic. Ensure higher pay to put more spending money in the economy (fordism), stop letting China and India get away with dumping (tariffs), and reinvigorate our manufacturing. We need to stop letting government get policies from banks & CEOs
@redreaper2020 Hard work and traditional values have been replaced with investment scams and shady investment brokers. Enron was the tip of the iceberg. They way Enron traded gas futures was nothing more than a ponzi scheme and Monday morning investment quarterbacks on Wall Street realized they too could dupe the American people. The FBI knew illegal activity was going on and made reports to W. and congress as early as the spring of 2002. The real crooks will never serve a day in jail.
@redreaper2020 The United States started off having people who knew what was needed in government to keep businesses thriving, because they were businessmen themselves. But they also saw their service as a duty to their country, not as a means of personal enrichment. When our elected officials lost sight of that we began to suffer as a whole. It did not mean anything to most people at first, because that was in Washington. And unless you forget, there are "richkids" on both sides of the aisle.
@tenhirankei we should have kept our unions, we should have kept our jobs, we should have never let China get away with dumping on our shores, and we never, ever, ever, should have elected Bush. Rich faggots do what makes them rich. But ironically, without a healthy middle class, they'll get poor again (or we'll be chanting "off with their heads", a la the french revolution).
@redreaper2020 Could unionized American factory employees have been able to produce competitively-priced goods, if so they would have kept their jobs. Instead they face unemployment and rant about the wealthy taking advantage of them. As to your attempt to demean wealthy people, you come off sounding homophbic.
@tenhirankei dumbass, they did for fifty years. It led to quality goods that lasted and massive American prosperity. You're talking about competing with slave-labor and sweatshops, when the difference is often only a few cents to the consumer.
Bitch about unions as you drive along roads made by unionized labor, to buildings whose power and heat are maintained by unionized techs, as you're taught by unionized teachers. Dumb republican fuck.
@redreaper2020 I cannot believe that you would insult the People's Republic of China by insinuating that they have slave-labor and sweatshops! Those are Chinese union employees that you demean. If unions in the United States are so great, why are they loosing membership? And this was before the present unemployment numbers.
@tenhirankei Yes, it's sweatshop labor there. That's why we make things there--wages are rock-bottom. This is economics 101; the wages have to stay virtually nonexistent in order to offset the transportation costs.
And we're losing members in unions because of the companies themselves, who do anything they can to bash unions because it means they have to pay an honest wage.
@redreaper2020 So if they pay an honest wage to union employees here, they will have lesser transportation costs. Those union employees will be living here, spending their money at other businesses here, and putting their money in banks here. Companies want to go overseas to put their money in foreign factories whose employees do not put any money in our economy. How does that help enrich companies here?
Of course this was when people thought Obama was going to be great. He campaigned on no Individual mandate but look at the worst side of Obama if he comes back I bet you people will suddenly migrate out of America because no one is going to follow with Obama mandates.
I'm a retired union worker. Bartenders Local 165 Las Vegas NV HEREIU AFL-CIO
I'm deeply saddened and angry with whats happening to the American Worker. Republican Fascism has Taken Morality out of the Equation. These so called Christians are sucking the life out of the Middle Class
@MrJohnbond Along with those who think no one should work and receive money they aren't entitled to like marxist who would like to put Gambling out of business and anything people want to make money or have the American Dream. The soviet union got its asses beaten because they wanted to impose athiesim in Afghanistan.
@tenhirankei This ain't your daddy's republican party any more. They make McCarthy look like a carnival barker since the teabaggers now are sucking up to the corporate henchmen of todays powerful.
@teabaggersblow The Tea party represents anyone-Republican or Democrat, Liberal or Conservative-who feels that the American people are Taxed Enough Already. This includes the hard-working citizens of this country whose income is lessened to feed government waste, and the corporations that pay their salaries who are hit with higher taxes.
@tenhirankei Hey teaparty fucks can represent my prick. That is the only member in congress or otherwise that they have been backing since they decided to throw in with the rich and powerful republican factions that keep screwing the real American people. Slowly but surely all walks of life in america are catching on to the real greedy corporate elite that are lying to you and all other tea party smucks. Republican laws backed by ALEC and dumb tea party hacks is ruining America.
@teabaggersblow If you can make your point without being vulgar do so, otherwise your angry comments will not make you seem wise. The TEA party is not affliliated with any mainstream political part and as such they are not hacks for any group. And are there no rich and powerful Democrat factions? As to what you mentioned at the start, it is your responsibility to take care of its "representation"-whatever form that might be.
@tenhirankei The tea party represents anyone dumb enough to back a corporate agenda that cares only for themselves and has zero feelings or zero ideas to get the jobless in this economy working again.
@teabaggersblow Proper regulation of labor practices allows corporations to provide consumers with high quality goods, excessive regulation makes it economically unfeasiable to do so. High corporate taxes will cut into employee salaries at all levels.
@tenhirankei No shit sherlock! With $2T sitting on the sidelines how many more tax cuts do these fat cat bastards need before you stop sucking their cogs dry. Leave these wealthy pricks with their own fish to fry and quit acting like anything you say means a hill of beans. If these elite assholes of the US Chamber of Commerce fame need help they are fairly good at buying lobbyist and crying like little bitches.
@teabaggersblow What is this $2T you speak of "sitting on the sidelines". "Sucking their cogs dry"-what is that, illiterate profanity? And since you cannot refrain from coarseness in your comments, they sound more like vile rants than sensible arguments. Borrow or buy a thesaurus, it will help you immeasureably.
@tenhirankei It is common knowledge that the business sector has $1T in surplus sitting in US banks and an additional $1.2T sitting in overseas banks. Nice nest egg. Back in 2004 Bush and your fearful cronies the republican whipped party allowed overseas money to be funneled back in this country tax free. heheheh to create jobs and now the republicans are blowing the same old cock. Different day for you cumdrunk sleepers out there.
@teabaggersblow "It is common knowledge" is not a specified fact. Do you have any specific facts? I doubt it otherwise let them be known. You could give me references to confirm this. Until you cannot present them and can avoid profanity, do not bother me. It is boring listening to "talking-points".
@tenhirankei The one fact that may never take place at this time in history is you need to grow the fuck up and quit relying on lies by the republican party to get your juices flowing. Republicans have been running from governing ever since they got our economy downgraded by refusing to pay our bills last month. You got some real winners taking the reigns of your republican party. People know now how much you teabagged scum are losers but they do have your 15% support.
@tenhirankei Thank you for showing both sides of a two faced teabagging republican. Boner would be proud. Pump him up he may need it after the whole viewing audience watched his tan disappear from his face. GULP! Don't worry he has got enough lobbyist in his pocket with his give away bills for the last 25 years and I suspect he will call in every marker out there when he has to run for re-election.
@teabaggersblow You do us both a disservce. Speaker Boehner has shown that he is not a true Republican, when he caved on the debt-limit spending bill. And he does have enough markers to get him reelected.
@tenhirankei You teabagged fucks have learned that kind of give and take from unamerican fucks like Boner real good. Maybe if you get down and dirty like most republicans they will save you a seat at the table. In the meantime your kind will have to blow that much harder.
@MrJohnbond Are these the same Fascists who still support the nation of Israel, while Obama gives it scant notice? Do you understand the meaning of the word or do you merely use it in its modern (post-World War II) sense? Roger Griffin refers to Fascism as anti-conservative, so it can hardly be called Republican. Robert O. Paxton defines it as "a political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiiation or victim-hood", which i a lot like the modern Democrat party.
You know what union-lovers? Just wait. The businesses will go to China and then NONE OF US WILL HAVE JOBS. Then people will work for shit money and say screw the union.
What do you want: work a 40 hour workweek and pay 25 percent of your pension or have NO JOB AT ALL?
@nbarile18 What a fucking crybaby. Jobs have been going overseas since Reagan. Break the unions and then send jobs overseas for gooks making $12 a day and all the rice they can shit out of their peanut asshole. Wake the fuck up. Unions make strong economies as long as republicans are not paying corporations to build overseas and bring goods into this country with no taxes placed on them. Republicans are looking out for their next cock to suck , they don't look out for the American people.
@teabaggersblow LMAO. You are truly a retarded union fuck. Jobs go overseas because the expenses are LOWER! They go overseas because they DON'T HAVE unions there! Why would you come back to America if you need to pay your workers more? This isn't about wages this is about keeping the businesses in America! You are going to drive every single job out of this country, mark my words! Unions are a leech on the economy and will destroy jobs if they get too powerful!
@nbarile18 Jobs can go anywhere these companies can make the most money. The american market is a big market. These corporate unamerican fucks will play by the rules that government imposes. But for 25 years under republican domination these companies have their cocks stuck so far up some republicans ass, he just nods his head when he is being fucked. And each generation another drove of dumbfuck Americans like you swallow the republican load. Ignorant fuck! Unions float all ships.
@teabaggersblow 25 years of what Republican domination? The House? The Senate? Corporate regulations stifle business. They may improve working conditions for employees, but at a cost to the employer. They may improve products, but at a cost to the employer and the employees. Can you reply to this without resorting to profanity? I am certain that it is within your vocabulary skills to do so, as you are a well-educated individual.
@tenhirankei don't be naive. Republicans have tried to change Americas economics ever since Reagan appointed a Wall Street Sec. of Treasure. Dems let some things pass. In the mid 90's shit really started to hit the fan. America voted in the corporate whores of the republican regime. Clinton joined the party. Then we all know how having Bush and his republican congress really worked out. The fox was guarding the henhouse. Wall street was so happy they were shitting all over theirselves.
@teabaggersblow Why did Clinton join, he was going to keep us from having to endure 4 more years of this. He had a Democrat majority in both houses early on in his administration. Did corporate America buy them or was it legislation that was more important than solving our financual woes? Oh, I applaud your attempt to lessen the profanity, but a few did slip past. Keep it up, I am confident that you can finally do without them. Maybe the others posting their comments can get the hint!
@tenhirankei What I meant by Clinton joined the party was the fact that when republicans took control of the house in '94 Clinton rolled over like a dounut floating in fat back. After Gramm kept trying to open up derivatives many times, he finally prevailed in a lame duck session and Clinton signed that bill a week before he left office. But without the law on the books for banks dealing in derivatives to not be prosecuted things were at a stalemate. Then W. signed the part for no prosecution.
@teabaggersblow It seems as though derivatives were the out-of-wedlock children of a mating of lawyers and economists. I don't know about economists, but how many lawyers would say they are Republican? Derivatives seem to be bipartisan, so one political party can hardly shoulder all the blame. I was reading about them, but it was like trying to keep up with an auctioneer when you don't know what's on the block. If this is what has got our economy sunk, good luck turning things around!
@tenhirankei What was not bipartisan was a republican led congress and a republican president putting a law on the books to not allow any prosecution to any individual for selling insurance without a license.
@nbarile18 You dumbfuck if these products that are made by some gook for $12 dollars a day cannot be offloaded on some dock in the US, these overseas unamerican corporations will try another way to make money. We have been offloading inferior goods for decades. And dumbfucks like you swallow the republican jizz like your life depended on it. If there is a market for a product Americans will make that product and get it to market. Viola job creation. We don't need gooks working in our place.
@teabaggersblow They should see where all these communists and racists use outsourcing as its propaganda and blame everyone else for no reason like a class of people or for the racists religion like Judaism and those that aren't the same skin color. Lets secure America and see real full time jobs by getting rid of the benefits that made America unsecure and rid the so call unknown outsourcing tax benefits for jobs and all the communists and racists will go away.
@nbarile18 What is really funny is, you republican history buffs would not know a fact if it dripped down your ass in an all republican gay bar. Wipe up and see what has gone on for the last 30 years. Republicans have been allowing jobs to be shed overseas with subsidies and tax breaks only a republican could pass and still look you straight in the eye. Go look at the record in congress and then tell me how bad dems are and how squeky clean your corporate republican dishrags are. W lost 8M jobs.
@teabaggersblow Besides if the reason Companies couldn't bring back money due to Taxes then I say lets rid that tax along with subsidies. That would solve most of the unemployment. Now I'm a Republican who hates subsidies and hates communism because it is much more worse then a bad economy. I can tell you there are no perfect dems and repubs. Oh just to criticised a bunch of cranky cuban exiles and say they aren't perfect and they throw a fit like those palestinian exiles.
@v19d I blame the US Chamber of Commerce for speculating the Chinese goods that come into this country. Just blockade these inferior goods and Americans will find a way to supply the market with goods that are not on the shelves. American made goods. We got commercial building after commercial building sitting dormant from banking speculators screwing our economy with shady mortgage practices. I blame greed and large corporations that use their money to buy politicians.
@teabaggersblow I blame the rich, they can afford of pay the cost of all American-made products. Everybody else is stuck buying less expensive foreign goods. What we should do is to force other countries to pay the people who work for them the same wages that Americans make.
@tenhirankei Power of the purse wins every time. Don't allow high priced inferior goods into our market place. Fuck 'em and feed 'em fish heads. If it ain't made by the US workforce then tax the hell out of it. When that cheap chinese shit stays on the shelf those rich republican speculators will have to fish or cut bait. Fuck a tax loophole republican.
@teabaggersblow Power of the purse does win every time. So when consumers are faced with the choice between higher priced goods made in this country or lower priced goods that are not that great, they keep making the wrong choice. We cannot keep foreign goods out, so why not inflated the costs? Not through tariffs, but at the retail level. That way people will have a choice between American-made and foreign-made, but there would not be that much difference in cost.
@tenhirankei Hey as long as that money does not reach the pocketbooks of these corporate foreign labor lovers. These companies can always sell their goods overseas and see if they can grow their bottom line. We do not need to make foreign slave loving corporations wealthy off of the american dime. It will only take one or two quarters of small growth to change their minds. Then these republican foreign leaning politicians may have to punt or the ball will be turned over on downs.
@teabaggersblow The latest partial solution has been to give amnesty to illegal immigrants here, then join the US workforce. Now we can produce cheap stuff here, instead of having to go overseas to buy it!
@nbarile18 They go overseas because we let these corporations sell these overseas goods right here in the USA. Sell them to those slant eyed $12 a day cocksuckas. Then let's see how much that helps their bottom line. hehehehe
not the truth 13% of america is black so how did he get elected if whites are so racist yet 95% of blacks voted because he is black? who is the racist? 5 out of 4 people do not know there math.
Obama didn't get the EFCA passed. He didn't end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He hasn't invested in alternative energy in any substantial way. He has been just as corporate as Bush.
@fedgery771 Corporate power needs organized resistance. As to relevance, ask workers who rely on their union for economic protection from exploitation how they feel.... (and not people paid to troll the internet to union-bash....)
@cameo9876 Their are way too many unionized workers- and I believe their should be less of them. If cops, firefighters, federal workers, teachers etc; jobs are so "important", why do they need to unionize?
@FFFFbody If workers couldn't join together to protect their interests, there would be even less demand in the economy then there is now. The middle class would continue its contraction....
This is a great book on the shrinking middle class:
Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It by Thom Hartmann
Not sure what you are asking re: "important" public workers and unions. Yes they are important, and yes, they need a union.
@cameo9876 Well I know what their "interests" are: a fat salary and fat pensions. The problem is government workers are making more than ppl in the private sector now and that's a problem. The other problem is govt. has no money except tax-payer money. If ppl in the private sector make less than in the govt. sector, it unsustainable. Then I see govt. union jerks demanding a pay raise in this economy while people in the private sector lose jobs.
@FFFFbody You OBVIOUSLY are a FIX-NEWS subscriber. THE TRUTH IS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ARE UNDERPAID in comparison to the private sector. Paper by Dr. Jeffrey Keefe, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers "Are Public Employees Overpaid?" - "On average, full-time state and local employees are undercompensated by 5.6 percent, in comparison to otherwise similar private-sector workers." SEE Papers, U of Richmond Law School Conference on Public Employment, September 9, 2011.
@FFFFbody What does job importance have to do with unionization? People like you are the problem in this world. Unionization happened because employers were killing workers with unsafe work conditions, paying them slave wages, etc. Do you think if the unions were gone we wouldn't return to those practices? The CEOs of today do everything short of JUST THAT and you're probably ok with THAT.
Uh yea sos from repubtards that the unions destroyed american jobs, But they never say the bushy polocies let all these american companys re-locate to commie countrys for the cheap labor and it all started with thier GOP god, RONNIE RAYGUN back in the 80,s, TRUMPKA for POTUS in 2012, This dude worked in coal mines not a rich boy country club, Suck on that repubtards!
Government support of unions (Wagner Act) led to the great expansion of America's middle class after WWII. Destroying unions is the most effective way to destroy the middle class. Corporations and Conservatives are working at it 24/7.
You can thank the organized labor movement in this country for the fact that you have a 40 hour work week ,paid vacations,pensions, no child labor....etc. All these things came about because of unions organizing people.
Strangely he is only making $240k per year. Given the high level he is at and normal union standards he should be making at least $1m per year.
Other than than he looks tough. Which means lock-out. Don't even bother to negotiate. Build up inventories. Line up the scabs. And pretend the AFL-CIO isn't even there.
@gogetmeseashells Guess what? I'm not a racist, and your not going to make me be ashamed of being white. My parents didn't own slaves and neither did I, so take your aimless empathy and go belly-flop on a chainsaw. I know what I am and what I believe. It's no wonder this man is giving this speech. Then-candidate Obama said "...finally, there will be a candidate running for presidency who doesn't choke saying the word 'union'." Unions paid more to elect the guy then they do to 4 their workers
We will teach your children in your schools with our books. We will disguise ourselves as Democrats. We will embrace all the arguments of your opponents. And, we will organize your uneducated workers. That is how we will turn this country into the greatest Socialist country in the world. Defeat Evil Freedom Loving Capitalist NOW!
Great speech and lots to agree with, even tho I disagree with Mr. Trumka's politics. But interesting to note he quotes Edmund Burke, considered the founder of the modern conservative movement. Wonder if Trumka knows who Burke was...
YAH OBAMA IS FIGTING FOR US PEOPLE.. LMAO! HE IS FIGHTING TO TAKE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, FIRST THE 1ST AMENDMENT, THEN THE 2ND SO WE CANT PROTECT OURSELVES THEN THE 4TH SO WE WILL BE A MUSLIM COUNTRY!!!!
The Unions are sucking the life out of California. Having to raise taxes to pay the union pensions and benefits and job providing companies leave because they can get the job done in other states cheaper. Not happy with your job, economic status or life. Then move. I have lived in 7 states and visited more than 30 before deciding to make my way in Southern California. You don't have to take the job you have. You chose to build your lives where you built them.
@Number1POTter The jobs we have left are because of the labor movement, the jobs we lost were because the labor movement wasn't strong enough to stop destructive "free trade" policies.
No, that's because corporations are moving the jobs REGARDLESS of unionization, Number1POTer. Part of this is the result of globalization, but a part of this is simple greed and indifference to the plight of average Americans.
Btw, unions help give you things like HMOs, paid holidays, Labor Day, pensions, etc. If it weren't for them, I can assure you that you wouldn't make more than a buck or two an hour...
theres no jobs because class warfare rich vs poor. the rich say if you if you unionize if you make a living wage we will move your job to india or china and if we cant move your job we will hire illegals to do it for cheap and off the books. theres no jobs cause the rich dont care about this country all they care about is their bottom line. soon their will be no middle class.
@Number1POTter Unions helped American workers gain a semblance of a decent living standard, you idiot. What destroyed American jobs was globalization and free-trade agreements that allowed US businesses to outsource work into the third-world. Asshats like yourself don't realize that we cannot compete with the third-world for the affections of our corporate masters unless we whore ourselves out like the third-world does. That is why we need to trade on our own terms and not under some agreement.
@Number1POTter Jobs are only cheaper overseas because unions are banned over there. Try organizing a union in China or Taiwan. Then you'll understand why corporations move their businesses there. Let them unionize.
This guy fights for a living wage for the middle class, as well as myself and other union members do. I don't care what his salt intake is, in fact it is irrelevant. When a corporation leaves a state, blame the greedy CEO of the company, not the victims who are barely scraping by to feed their families...which will starve if they are forced to live off of minimum wage. SCREW SCAB LABOR.
@RedStateProgressive I am against 1) teachers unions 2) distributing condoms 3) using public school as a platform to teach liberalism instead of RRR, 4) public institutions rejecting military recruitment, 5) rejecting prayer/Pledge, 6) promoting anything but abstinence education, 7) teaching anthropomorphic global warning as established fact, 8) redirecting facilities maintenance funding to staff salaries, 9) the lack of promoting American Exceptionalism, 10) free lunch, 11) charter restrictions
@NewYorkCityUSA7 what's the Irony, the guy IS and idiot. We all know guys like this, he can't control his beer or salt intake, but he gets a red face about some dumb ass shit and a bunch of union boobs feel like they found god. hahah alol what a bunch of loser, the reason this country is fucked.
@ORVX Once again, very ironic; how about the next time YOU decide to call someone an idiot you proof read your own stupid sounding comment. Looks like your comment was written by a 5 year old. God our public school system sucks.
John Kerry, Al Gore, and Bill Clinton all got over 90% of the black vote when they ran for President, and all are white. What Black candidate running for any office in this land ever got 90% of the white vote?
Hey Nikki... you're so blind... you're so blind... you blow my mind... Hey Nikki..
I am white... I have lived and worked in cities and towns with "Black People" and find your statements false to say the least. You my freind do not have a clue... No... wait you do have a clue... Your a RACIST and you know it.
Also the reason he may look constipated is because he's got a case of the ass with Hillbilly racist like yourself.
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It seems that Ohio has lost 3 corporations to Atlanta in the past 8 months. Those three companies would be NCR, Fischbein and Novelis (they make aluminum cans). Georgia is a right-to-work state. In Georgia you cannot be forced to join a union in order to get a job.
This lesson is not easily learned in states with forced union membership laws. That's fine. Let their economies suffer the consequences of a union-dominated government.
Racism is what got Obama elected.
Not voting for the smart guy, the best option to help the country.
But only because of the color of his skin.
No mater how hard you try to spin it: THAT is racism in its purest form.
stap0510 1 month ago
@meccaturbo Nothing new here. Whites have been so stupid as to vote against their own interests from the early 17th century!!! That is how the rich white landowner kept a hold on the country. That is a fact. Whites are still more racist than smart in america.
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@meccaturbo What is the matter you shitstained republican............your tongue getting hard? Republicans are the fucking scum of the earth that have betrayed the American people and tea party trash like you would not come up for air until you swallowed every drop of lying, stealing, cheating, cum that a republican could shoot your way. Bon appetite cum breath. Vote out all shitstained Wall Street loving republicans from the ranks of the employed.
teabaggersblow 3 months ago
Obama gonna "fight for people like us"? Yeah right, Trumka retard...Obama's presidency is being bought just as much as Bush's was. Trumka is as dumb as you can possibly get.
meccaturbo 3 months ago
RON PAUL because Obama did nothing he said he would do
ouluvme2 3 months ago
As long as our governmet keeps giving away money to the global corporate interests, they will continue to exercise their free will by using that money in foreign lands for profit. They will never build in America if the American people let them continue to get tax breaks to hire outside the US. Why should they? Since 2001 the rich have gotten a tax break along with american money invested in foreign markets. Now republicans want to give them more tax breaks to hire overseas. Fuck a republican!
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
Totally absurd for someone to state that the Tea Party members held our debt ceiling limit hostage when everyone in the House who didn't agree that the increase should be paid for could also be said to have been holding it hostage also. We were downgraded because we raised the debt ceiling. Period. Fact of the matter is, If we had made cuts in spending like the Tea Party wanted we would not have been downgraded by S&P.
profwaldo 4 months ago
Well for your information a great majority of businesses in the US never hire people. They have the same amount of employees they have had for decades. But their salaries help pay taxes. And their salaries contribute to their local economies. So it does not matter if these guys are jacking off in a field from now till they choke. Their salaries will contribute to the economy. I guess you did better at recess in the backyard than you did in homeschool.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
The bears did not like the speech last night. They see the republicans looking as small minded as ever and perhaps will never get the whitehouse next election. Those bears want that whitehouse bad and are afraid that most Americans think Obama looks 1000 times better than anything republicans have to offer. But republicans will offer more money and more tax breaks for the bears. That speech got 'em nervous.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow It took a while to understand that "bears" translates into rich people. I am not certain what recent poll you are using, but most Americans disagree with your take on Obama. His administration has not turned the tide of financial irresponsibility in government and his ideas have not brought prosperity to this country. Did the speech say how unemployment would be solved? Green energy jobs? Like those of Solyndra?
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei You really don't get out much. " BEARS & BULLS" Everyone investing, is considered the herd complex. But when the whales or Bears are ready to make a profit , they make a profit and if you do not get off when they do, you lose your ass like those Enron employees lost their ass when Bush' government locked them out of selling their own shares. But the rich CEO's of Enron got out when the getting was good. And of course so did the bears. Bears can afford watching the market.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow I agree that Enron upper management should not have not been allowed to cash-out their shares, if the other employees could not. I remember selling my shares of a lesser company that had a stock split. It split again in less than a year. I was upset that I had not held my shares longer, until I discovered that the next split had been rigged.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei That insider trading has been going on as long as the stock exchange has been tied to an electrical line. Polls are driven by landlines. Although I still have one, most people today have cell phones. So your polls take on very little meaning when it comes to concensus. But it is a talking point republicans can harken back to for comfort. Congress is looking at a 12% approval rating. Imagine what it would be from cell phone users. Fuck a slant eyed loving republican.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow What do polls have to do with this? And was the last sentence in your comment truly necessary? Now you sound like a vulgar bigot, not who you really are.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei Read your very own posts. You said most Americans disagree with my take on Obama. My take on Obama is like my take on any politician. Corporate america has been transformed into corporate greed with one party and half of another party doing their bidding. Yea republicans go in lock stock and barrel. For me giving away perks to companies just becasue you can makes that person a fucking whore. And I believe republicans are 100% whore.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow Infrastructure improvement is a government job. While they do a necessary service, it is maintenence work. Unless they are building roads and bridges that are needed to handle extra traffic or to shorten distances, they are not producing anything.
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teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@tenhirankei Well for your information a great majority of businesses in the US never hire people. They have the same amount of employees they have had for decades. But their salaries help pay taxes. And their salaries contribute to their local economies. Their salaries will contribute to the economy. I guess you did better at recess in the backyard than you did in homeschool. Local economies will suffer with republican hairbrained job killing ideas.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow The businesses that you describe have the same amount of employees, because they have turn-over of employees and automation of some jobs. How many automoble factory jobs disappeared because of automation? What did the AFL-CIO do about that to protect union jobs? Could they even do anything? Also I did not do so well at recess and I attended public schools. And you might approve of "green energy" jobs, they are neither Republican nor hairbrained(?).
tenhirankei 4 months ago
Teatards unfortunately for America turn into republicunts after a few years of evolution.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow I am impressed! It only took you a week to come up with such a bold response. Well done!
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei What impresses me is how teabagged fucks like you did not want to extend the debt limit. I am so impressed that I would voluntarily piss on every job killing bill any one of you fucks ever tries to get passed in the House. And hopefully any and all teabaggers who do not pay for child support should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law before they make their trailer payment.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow Extending the debt-limit is as helpful to job creation, as extending the limit on a credit card is to your personal finances. The more in interest you have to pay the credit card companies on money they ley you use, the less spending money you have later on. But then government does not have to pay their bill, we do. By the way any and all liberals should also be prosecuted for the same thing that you mentioned.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei Republicans and teatards like you want it both ways. Republicans say there is uncertainity in the marketplace and that is why America will not create jobs. Well when the teabagged republicans decided to hold our debt limit hostage.......guess what? It created uncertainity in the marketplace and now it is barely tredding water. In the future I ask all you dumbasses grasping at straws to grab one and hold on to it until the next new normal comes along.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow The uncertainty is caused by the costs of hiring new employees. Between hiring regulations and trying to find the right person for a particular, you have to factor in how much does a new hire cost against how much will their labor produce. Businesses have to turn a profit or they go under, unless Washington wants to bail them out. Then the taxpayer gets to help prevent unemployment, but the new hire is paying taxes to keep a company going so he can have a job.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow So in a round about way he is paying a company to be able to hire him.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei R U MENTAL?
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow If you mean that I do use intelligent thought, then yes I am. Or did you miss a few letters in an attempt to spell "instrumental"?
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei I really don't remember that was along time ago. I have moved on but catch you in the funny papers.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
Ponzi Perry, the drugstore cowboy and five and dime George W. Bush.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
Close republican tax loopholes. Build a new infrastructure in America. Put people back to work and quit letting republicans downgrade our economic rating. They want America to fail. For God's sake these are corporate tool loving republicans. They care less about America buying their products than not ever paying another tax to our country from now until the end of time. Loopholes for the rich have been voted on since republicans have had control. Look it up. Republicans are corporate tools!
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fantazixx 4 months ago
It amazes me how republicans can sit back and condemn everything from the EPA to FEMA and continue to act all indignant about our government and its function while they sit there all pious with their hands playing pocket pool and their mind in Arkansas. And we have ignorant dumbfuck teabaggers that think they are actually governing. hahahahaha It is fucking hilarious!
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
There is a reason to vote against him now. Unless he and the democratic party makes some drastic changes, it is time for labor to have its own party.
CrkAtk 5 months ago
@debalazo How on earth does an Attorney become head of a union. His Day Job was a union attorney.
v19d 6 months ago
no reason to not vote for Obama?
Hmmm. WHERE ARE OUR JOBS!? Oh, yeah. WHERE IS OUR HOPE AND CHANGE!? Oh, yeah. It's a sad day when the last "decent president" was ten years ago! Where the hell are our jobs?
Who cares if he's black, white, or asian. I'm still waiting for my truckload of "hope and change". They need to get the goddamn richkids out of the cabinet, out of lobbying, out of our congress's pockets, and start doing something for the man on the street.
redreaper2020 7 months ago
@redreaper2020 Hey the last time I looked there was a two party system. The republican party is the party of fuck you and fuck him. They will fuck anything that moves. So whenever you get the republican party to quit shooting the fucking victims in this society, we may start taking you more serious.
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
@teabaggersblow Remember. We're no longer voting for who we LIKE, but who we DISLIKE LESS...so I still get stuck voting for Obama, because I'm not gonna be led by a republican (remember bush?) or a dumb teabagger.
redreaper2020 5 months ago
@redreaper2020 I agree. It is definitely not the best way to run a republic. When both sides quit having drive bys and start sitting down and discussing this countries future we all may have a reason for trust again. Right now Americans are looking at a one dog fight. Republican politicians bitch and whine but will not take this countries problems for what they are worth. Problems. You get winged while republicans are in power and they want to chew off your whole fucking arm.
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
@teabaggersblow They screwed up the country. Someone came in to fix it. Now they try to capitalize on the problems they started, in a stupid attempt to maintain power. Dumb fucks like that, who won't do anything that doesn't benefit them (remember the debt ceiling debate?), are running the country into the ground.
I think Obama's 2012 campaign should be a big picture of bush with "remember last time?" written on it. I'm annoyed he moves so slow, but he's miles ahead of the competition.
redreaper2020 5 months ago
@redreaper2020 I have always thought our GDP should grow at a 3% clip. Our inflation should coincide with that number and Americans should get much more than 1% interest on savings accounts. Playing musical chairs with homes and commercial properties and Gramm (R) ramming through the derivatives law were big mistakes. But when the republicans passed the law that stopped any prosecution for banks selling insurance (credit default swaps) without a license, it was just a matter of time.
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
@teabaggersblow I'd agree with you 100%.
Really, it shocks me how they're dragging their feet on this. The basic economy policies from the late 40s to early 70s were simple, yet they worked. And now the idiots in power seem to forget that the answers are basic. Ensure higher pay to put more spending money in the economy (fordism), stop letting China and India get away with dumping (tariffs), and reinvigorate our manufacturing. We need to stop letting government get policies from banks & CEOs
redreaper2020 5 months ago
@redreaper2020 Hard work and traditional values have been replaced with investment scams and shady investment brokers. Enron was the tip of the iceberg. They way Enron traded gas futures was nothing more than a ponzi scheme and Monday morning investment quarterbacks on Wall Street realized they too could dupe the American people. The FBI knew illegal activity was going on and made reports to W. and congress as early as the spring of 2002. The real crooks will never serve a day in jail.
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
@redreaper2020 The United States started off having people who knew what was needed in government to keep businesses thriving, because they were businessmen themselves. But they also saw their service as a duty to their country, not as a means of personal enrichment. When our elected officials lost sight of that we began to suffer as a whole. It did not mean anything to most people at first, because that was in Washington. And unless you forget, there are "richkids" on both sides of the aisle.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei we should have kept our unions, we should have kept our jobs, we should have never let China get away with dumping on our shores, and we never, ever, ever, should have elected Bush. Rich faggots do what makes them rich. But ironically, without a healthy middle class, they'll get poor again (or we'll be chanting "off with their heads", a la the french revolution).
redreaper2020 4 months ago
@redreaper2020 Could unionized American factory employees have been able to produce competitively-priced goods, if so they would have kept their jobs. Instead they face unemployment and rant about the wealthy taking advantage of them. As to your attempt to demean wealthy people, you come off sounding homophbic.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei dumbass, they did for fifty years. It led to quality goods that lasted and massive American prosperity. You're talking about competing with slave-labor and sweatshops, when the difference is often only a few cents to the consumer.
Bitch about unions as you drive along roads made by unionized labor, to buildings whose power and heat are maintained by unionized techs, as you're taught by unionized teachers. Dumb republican fuck.
redreaper2020 4 months ago
@redreaper2020 I cannot believe that you would insult the People's Republic of China by insinuating that they have slave-labor and sweatshops! Those are Chinese union employees that you demean. If unions in the United States are so great, why are they loosing membership? And this was before the present unemployment numbers.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei Yes, it's sweatshop labor there. That's why we make things there--wages are rock-bottom. This is economics 101; the wages have to stay virtually nonexistent in order to offset the transportation costs.
And we're losing members in unions because of the companies themselves, who do anything they can to bash unions because it means they have to pay an honest wage.
redreaper2020 4 months ago
@redreaper2020 So if they pay an honest wage to union employees here, they will have lesser transportation costs. Those union employees will be living here, spending their money at other businesses here, and putting their money in banks here. Companies want to go overseas to put their money in foreign factories whose employees do not put any money in our economy. How does that help enrich companies here?
tenhirankei 4 months ago
Of course this was when people thought Obama was going to be great. He campaigned on no Individual mandate but look at the worst side of Obama if he comes back I bet you people will suddenly migrate out of America because no one is going to follow with Obama mandates.
v19d 7 months ago
I'm a retired union worker. Bartenders Local 165 Las Vegas NV HEREIU AFL-CIO
I'm deeply saddened and angry with whats happening to the American Worker. Republican Fascism has Taken Morality out of the Equation. These so called Christians are sucking the life out of the Middle Class
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MrJohnbond 7 months ago
@MrJohnbond Along with those who think no one should work and receive money they aren't entitled to like marxist who would like to put Gambling out of business and anything people want to make money or have the American Dream. The soviet union got its asses beaten because they wanted to impose athiesim in Afghanistan.
v19d 7 months ago 2
@MrJohnbond Are these the same Fascists who still support the nation of Israel, while Obama gives it scant notice?
tenhirankei 5 months ago
@tenhirankei This ain't your daddy's republican party any more. They make McCarthy look like a carnival barker since the teabaggers now are sucking up to the corporate henchmen of todays powerful.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow The Tea party represents anyone-Republican or Democrat, Liberal or Conservative-who feels that the American people are Taxed Enough Already. This includes the hard-working citizens of this country whose income is lessened to feed government waste, and the corporations that pay their salaries who are hit with higher taxes.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei Hey teaparty fucks can represent my prick. That is the only member in congress or otherwise that they have been backing since they decided to throw in with the rich and powerful republican factions that keep screwing the real American people. Slowly but surely all walks of life in america are catching on to the real greedy corporate elite that are lying to you and all other tea party smucks. Republican laws backed by ALEC and dumb tea party hacks is ruining America.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow If you can make your point without being vulgar do so, otherwise your angry comments will not make you seem wise. The TEA party is not affliliated with any mainstream political part and as such they are not hacks for any group. And are there no rich and powerful Democrat factions? As to what you mentioned at the start, it is your responsibility to take care of its "representation"-whatever form that might be.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei The tea party represents anyone dumb enough to back a corporate agenda that cares only for themselves and has zero feelings or zero ideas to get the jobless in this economy working again.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow Proper regulation of labor practices allows corporations to provide consumers with high quality goods, excessive regulation makes it economically unfeasiable to do so. High corporate taxes will cut into employee salaries at all levels.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei No shit sherlock! With $2T sitting on the sidelines how many more tax cuts do these fat cat bastards need before you stop sucking their cogs dry. Leave these wealthy pricks with their own fish to fry and quit acting like anything you say means a hill of beans. If these elite assholes of the US Chamber of Commerce fame need help they are fairly good at buying lobbyist and crying like little bitches.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow What is this $2T you speak of "sitting on the sidelines". "Sucking their cogs dry"-what is that, illiterate profanity? And since you cannot refrain from coarseness in your comments, they sound more like vile rants than sensible arguments. Borrow or buy a thesaurus, it will help you immeasureably.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei It is common knowledge that the business sector has $1T in surplus sitting in US banks and an additional $1.2T sitting in overseas banks. Nice nest egg. Back in 2004 Bush and your fearful cronies the republican whipped party allowed overseas money to be funneled back in this country tax free. heheheh to create jobs and now the republicans are blowing the same old cock. Different day for you cumdrunk sleepers out there.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow "It is common knowledge" is not a specified fact. Do you have any specific facts? I doubt it otherwise let them be known. You could give me references to confirm this. Until you cannot present them and can avoid profanity, do not bother me. It is boring listening to "talking-points".
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei The one fact that may never take place at this time in history is you need to grow the fuck up and quit relying on lies by the republican party to get your juices flowing. Republicans have been running from governing ever since they got our economy downgraded by refusing to pay our bills last month. You got some real winners taking the reigns of your republican party. People know now how much you teabagged scum are losers but they do have your 15% support.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow Thank you for making my point about intelligent discussions.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei Thank you for showing both sides of a two faced teabagging republican. Boner would be proud. Pump him up he may need it after the whole viewing audience watched his tan disappear from his face. GULP! Don't worry he has got enough lobbyist in his pocket with his give away bills for the last 25 years and I suspect he will call in every marker out there when he has to run for re-election.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@teabaggersblow You do us both a disservce. Speaker Boehner has shown that he is not a true Republican, when he caved on the debt-limit spending bill. And he does have enough markers to get him reelected.
tenhirankei 4 months ago
@tenhirankei You teabagged fucks have learned that kind of give and take from unamerican fucks like Boner real good. Maybe if you get down and dirty like most republicans they will save you a seat at the table. In the meantime your kind will have to blow that much harder.
teabaggersblow 4 months ago
@MrJohnbond Are these the same Fascists who still support the nation of Israel, while Obama gives it scant notice? Do you understand the meaning of the word or do you merely use it in its modern (post-World War II) sense? Roger Griffin refers to Fascism as anti-conservative, so it can hardly be called Republican. Robert O. Paxton defines it as "a political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiiation or victim-hood", which i a lot like the modern Democrat party.
tenhirankei 5 months ago
You know what union-lovers? Just wait. The businesses will go to China and then NONE OF US WILL HAVE JOBS. Then people will work for shit money and say screw the union.
What do you want: work a 40 hour workweek and pay 25 percent of your pension or have NO JOB AT ALL?
nbarile18 8 months ago
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Next dilemma you will pose will be:
What do you want: work a 50 hour workweek and pay 35 percent of your pension or have NO JOB AT ALL?
Next:
What do you want: work a 60 hour workweek and pay 45 percent of your pension or have NO JOB AT ALL?
...................etc etc until:
What do you want: to work for a plate of food or have NO JOB AT ALL?
drizztf88 7 months ago
@nbarile18 What a fucking crybaby. Jobs have been going overseas since Reagan. Break the unions and then send jobs overseas for gooks making $12 a day and all the rice they can shit out of their peanut asshole. Wake the fuck up. Unions make strong economies as long as republicans are not paying corporations to build overseas and bring goods into this country with no taxes placed on them. Republicans are looking out for their next cock to suck , they don't look out for the American people.
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
@teabaggersblow LMAO. You are truly a retarded union fuck. Jobs go overseas because the expenses are LOWER! They go overseas because they DON'T HAVE unions there! Why would you come back to America if you need to pay your workers more? This isn't about wages this is about keeping the businesses in America! You are going to drive every single job out of this country, mark my words! Unions are a leech on the economy and will destroy jobs if they get too powerful!
nbarile18 7 months ago
@nbarile18 Jobs can go anywhere these companies can make the most money. The american market is a big market. These corporate unamerican fucks will play by the rules that government imposes. But for 25 years under republican domination these companies have their cocks stuck so far up some republicans ass, he just nods his head when he is being fucked. And each generation another drove of dumbfuck Americans like you swallow the republican load. Ignorant fuck! Unions float all ships.
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
@teabaggersblow 25 years of what Republican domination? The House? The Senate? Corporate regulations stifle business. They may improve working conditions for employees, but at a cost to the employer. They may improve products, but at a cost to the employer and the employees. Can you reply to this without resorting to profanity? I am certain that it is within your vocabulary skills to do so, as you are a well-educated individual.
tenhirankei 5 months ago
@tenhirankei don't be naive. Republicans have tried to change Americas economics ever since Reagan appointed a Wall Street Sec. of Treasure. Dems let some things pass. In the mid 90's shit really started to hit the fan. America voted in the corporate whores of the republican regime. Clinton joined the party. Then we all know how having Bush and his republican congress really worked out. The fox was guarding the henhouse. Wall street was so happy they were shitting all over theirselves.
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
@teabaggersblow Why did Clinton join, he was going to keep us from having to endure 4 more years of this. He had a Democrat majority in both houses early on in his administration. Did corporate America buy them or was it legislation that was more important than solving our financual woes? Oh, I applaud your attempt to lessen the profanity, but a few did slip past. Keep it up, I am confident that you can finally do without them. Maybe the others posting their comments can get the hint!
tenhirankei 5 months ago
@tenhirankei What I meant by Clinton joined the party was the fact that when republicans took control of the house in '94 Clinton rolled over like a dounut floating in fat back. After Gramm kept trying to open up derivatives many times, he finally prevailed in a lame duck session and Clinton signed that bill a week before he left office. But without the law on the books for banks dealing in derivatives to not be prosecuted things were at a stalemate. Then W. signed the part for no prosecution.
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
@teabaggersblow It seems as though derivatives were the out-of-wedlock children of a mating of lawyers and economists. I don't know about economists, but how many lawyers would say they are Republican? Derivatives seem to be bipartisan, so one political party can hardly shoulder all the blame. I was reading about them, but it was like trying to keep up with an auctioneer when you don't know what's on the block. If this is what has got our economy sunk, good luck turning things around!
tenhirankei 5 months ago
@tenhirankei What was not bipartisan was a republican led congress and a republican president putting a law on the books to not allow any prosecution to any individual for selling insurance without a license.
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
@nbarile18 You dumbfuck if these products that are made by some gook for $12 dollars a day cannot be offloaded on some dock in the US, these overseas unamerican corporations will try another way to make money. We have been offloading inferior goods for decades. And dumbfucks like you swallow the republican jizz like your life depended on it. If there is a market for a product Americans will make that product and get it to market. Viola job creation. We don't need gooks working in our place.
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
@teabaggersblow They should see where all these communists and racists use outsourcing as its propaganda and blame everyone else for no reason like a class of people or for the racists religion like Judaism and those that aren't the same skin color. Lets secure America and see real full time jobs by getting rid of the benefits that made America unsecure and rid the so call unknown outsourcing tax benefits for jobs and all the communists and racists will go away.
v19d 7 months ago
@nbarile18 What is really funny is, you republican history buffs would not know a fact if it dripped down your ass in an all republican gay bar. Wipe up and see what has gone on for the last 30 years. Republicans have been allowing jobs to be shed overseas with subsidies and tax breaks only a republican could pass and still look you straight in the eye. Go look at the record in congress and then tell me how bad dems are and how squeky clean your corporate republican dishrags are. W lost 8M jobs.
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
@teabaggersblow Besides if the reason Companies couldn't bring back money due to Taxes then I say lets rid that tax along with subsidies. That would solve most of the unemployment. Now I'm a Republican who hates subsidies and hates communism because it is much more worse then a bad economy. I can tell you there are no perfect dems and repubs. Oh just to criticised a bunch of cranky cuban exiles and say they aren't perfect and they throw a fit like those palestinian exiles.
v19d 7 months ago
@v19d I blame the US Chamber of Commerce for speculating the Chinese goods that come into this country. Just blockade these inferior goods and Americans will find a way to supply the market with goods that are not on the shelves. American made goods. We got commercial building after commercial building sitting dormant from banking speculators screwing our economy with shady mortgage practices. I blame greed and large corporations that use their money to buy politicians.
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
@teabaggersblow I blame the rich, they can afford of pay the cost of all American-made products. Everybody else is stuck buying less expensive foreign goods. What we should do is to force other countries to pay the people who work for them the same wages that Americans make.
tenhirankei 5 months ago in playlist Politics
@tenhirankei Power of the purse wins every time. Don't allow high priced inferior goods into our market place. Fuck 'em and feed 'em fish heads. If it ain't made by the US workforce then tax the hell out of it. When that cheap chinese shit stays on the shelf those rich republican speculators will have to fish or cut bait. Fuck a tax loophole republican.
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
@teabaggersblow Power of the purse does win every time. So when consumers are faced with the choice between higher priced goods made in this country or lower priced goods that are not that great, they keep making the wrong choice. We cannot keep foreign goods out, so why not inflated the costs? Not through tariffs, but at the retail level. That way people will have a choice between American-made and foreign-made, but there would not be that much difference in cost.
tenhirankei 5 months ago
@tenhirankei Hey as long as that money does not reach the pocketbooks of these corporate foreign labor lovers. These companies can always sell their goods overseas and see if they can grow their bottom line. We do not need to make foreign slave loving corporations wealthy off of the american dime. It will only take one or two quarters of small growth to change their minds. Then these republican foreign leaning politicians may have to punt or the ball will be turned over on downs.
teabaggersblow 5 months ago
@teabaggersblow The latest partial solution has been to give amnesty to illegal immigrants here, then join the US workforce. Now we can produce cheap stuff here, instead of having to go overseas to buy it!
tenhirankei 5 months ago
@nbarile18 They go overseas because we let these corporations sell these overseas goods right here in the USA. Sell them to those slant eyed $12 a day cocksuckas. Then let's see how much that helps their bottom line. hehehehe
teabaggersblow 7 months ago
when did this speech take place?
Jmgreen2010 9 months ago
@Jmgreen2010 July 1, 2008
cameo9876 9 months ago
Your Obama just brought in place the Colombia Trade deal. You union people I can not understand. this Obama walks right over American workers
mizzoulibertarian 9 months ago
@fairmont66- what is ignorant is that most of the 90 per of the 13 per vote just bc of the (D) instead of the issues.
theBlaine26 10 months ago
not the truth 13% of america is black so how did he get elected if whites are so racist yet 95% of blacks voted because he is black? who is the racist? 5 out of 4 people do not know there math.
qterback 11 months ago
@qterback
maybe you should look up something before repeating fox news talking points.
Because black people have been voting at least 90% democratic since the 60's. Look it up before you spew ignorance.
fairmont66 11 months ago
@5:25, bullshit! The IWW was!
bjarczyk 11 months ago
Ok let the suit and tie guy kill ya UNION ALL THE WAY
playone4me 1 year ago
@playone4me aint that the truth, watch harlan county usa
WVliberty 11 months ago
Obama didn't get the EFCA passed. He didn't end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He hasn't invested in alternative energy in any substantial way. He has been just as corporate as Bush.
utubenotgoodasgvideo 1 year ago 2
@fedgery771 Corporate power needs organized resistance. As to relevance, ask workers who rely on their union for economic protection from exploitation how they feel.... (and not people paid to troll the internet to union-bash....)
cameo9876 1 year ago
@cameo9876 Their are way too many unionized workers- and I believe their should be less of them. If cops, firefighters, federal workers, teachers etc; jobs are so "important", why do they need to unionize?
FFFFbody 1 year ago
@FFFFbody If workers couldn't join together to protect their interests, there would be even less demand in the economy then there is now. The middle class would continue its contraction....
This is a great book on the shrinking middle class:
Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It by Thom Hartmann
Not sure what you are asking re: "important" public workers and unions. Yes they are important, and yes, they need a union.
cameo9876 1 year ago
@cameo9876 Well I know what their "interests" are: a fat salary and fat pensions. The problem is government workers are making more than ppl in the private sector now and that's a problem. The other problem is govt. has no money except tax-payer money. If ppl in the private sector make less than in the govt. sector, it unsustainable. Then I see govt. union jerks demanding a pay raise in this economy while people in the private sector lose jobs.
FFFFbody 1 year ago 3
@FFFFbody You OBVIOUSLY are a FIX-NEWS subscriber. THE TRUTH IS PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ARE UNDERPAID in comparison to the private sector. Paper by Dr. Jeffrey Keefe, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers "Are Public Employees Overpaid?" - "On average, full-time state and local employees are undercompensated by 5.6 percent, in comparison to otherwise similar private-sector workers." SEE Papers, U of Richmond Law School Conference on Public Employment, September 9, 2011.
cameo9876 4 months ago
@FFFFbody What does job importance have to do with unionization? People like you are the problem in this world. Unionization happened because employers were killing workers with unsafe work conditions, paying them slave wages, etc. Do you think if the unions were gone we wouldn't return to those practices? The CEOs of today do everything short of JUST THAT and you're probably ok with THAT.
lanee1967 1 year ago
Obama "worshiped" at a tax exempt democrat rally disguised as a Sunday service
k3304 1 year ago
Uh yea sos from repubtards that the unions destroyed american jobs, But they never say the bushy polocies let all these american companys re-locate to commie countrys for the cheap labor and it all started with thier GOP god, RONNIE RAYGUN back in the 80,s, TRUMPKA for POTUS in 2012, This dude worked in coal mines not a rich boy country club, Suck on that repubtards!
derail14 1 year ago
Can you link us to some evidence specific to Trumka that substantiates your accusations?
YouzTube99 1 year ago 9
Government support of unions (Wagner Act) led to the great expansion of America's middle class after WWII. Destroying unions is the most effective way to destroy the middle class. Corporations and Conservatives are working at it 24/7.
TheForwardGaze 1 year ago 22
@TheForwardGaze Wake up!
jtsct 9 months ago
richard speaks the truth!!
papinico1 1 year ago 7
You can thank the organized labor movement in this country for the fact that you have a 40 hour work week ,paid vacations,pensions, no child labor....etc. All these things came about because of unions organizing people.
19caribou61 1 year ago 7
Union leaders are as upstanding and truthful as mobsters and druglords.
It's not about Obama's religion and color, it's all about money and power.
They don't want secret ballots because they want to intimidate the people that vote against them.
davej6312 1 year ago
Strangely he is only making $240k per year. Given the high level he is at and normal union standards he should be making at least $1m per year.
Other than than he looks tough. Which means lock-out. Don't even bother to negotiate. Build up inventories. Line up the scabs. And pretend the AFL-CIO isn't even there.
kalumnist 1 year ago
The teaparty is racist because they disagree with a black man.
The corporations are racist because they discriminate.
President Bush is racist because he didn't land in New Orleans.
The government created crack to kill black people.
President Bush caused 911...............
At least crazy right-wing propaganda is logical.
Nobody gives a fuck if he's black, you jackass. We don't want him creating a giant social experiment at the feet of a economic crisis.
Oh, and Unions = mediocricy <3ers
gogetmeseashells 1 year ago
@gogetmeseashells Guess what? I'm not a racist, and your not going to make me be ashamed of being white. My parents didn't own slaves and neither did I, so take your aimless empathy and go belly-flop on a chainsaw. I know what I am and what I believe. It's no wonder this man is giving this speech. Then-candidate Obama said "...finally, there will be a candidate running for presidency who doesn't choke saying the word 'union'." Unions paid more to elect the guy then they do to 4 their workers
gogetmeseashells 1 year ago
Mr Trumka speaks for caring people. We are very thankful for him and his courage.
JTCares 1 year ago 6
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@JTCares
We will teach your children in your schools with our books. We will disguise ourselves as Democrats. We will embrace all the arguments of your opponents. And, we will organize your uneducated workers. That is how we will turn this country into the greatest Socialist country in the world. Defeat Evil Freedom Loving Capitalist NOW!
clay9280 1 year ago
Great speech and lots to agree with, even tho I disagree with Mr. Trumka's politics. But interesting to note he quotes Edmund Burke, considered the founder of the modern conservative movement. Wonder if Trumka knows who Burke was...
RGiacobbe 1 year ago
YAH OBAMA IS FIGTING FOR US PEOPLE.. LMAO! HE IS FIGHTING TO TAKE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, FIRST THE 1ST AMENDMENT, THEN THE 2ND SO WE CANT PROTECT OURSELVES THEN THE 4TH SO WE WILL BE A MUSLIM COUNTRY!!!!
mikelee928 1 year ago
Obama the first half-caste biracial mixed-race president not black.
OBAMAisHalfCaste 1 year ago
The Unions are sucking the life out of California. Having to raise taxes to pay the union pensions and benefits and job providing companies leave because they can get the job done in other states cheaper. Not happy with your job, economic status or life. Then move. I have lived in 7 states and visited more than 30 before deciding to make my way in Southern California. You don't have to take the job you have. You chose to build your lives where you built them.
Number1POTter 1 year ago
Here's an example: Detroit!
Number1POTter 1 year ago
There's no Jobs because your Unions destroyed them all.
Number1POTter 1 year ago
@Number1POTter There's no demand b/c corporate power reduces workers' wages.
cameo9876 1 year ago
@Number1POTter The jobs we have left are because of the labor movement, the jobs we lost were because the labor movement wasn't strong enough to stop destructive "free trade" policies.
cdrosa 1 year ago
@Number1POTter
That's incorrect. There's no jobs because you buy non-union.
Mexisio22 1 year ago
@Number1POTter
No, that's because corporations are moving the jobs REGARDLESS of unionization, Number1POTer. Part of this is the result of globalization, but a part of this is simple greed and indifference to the plight of average Americans.
Btw, unions help give you things like HMOs, paid holidays, Labor Day, pensions, etc. If it weren't for them, I can assure you that you wouldn't make more than a buck or two an hour...
miguelvillafana 1 year ago 4
theres no jobs because class warfare rich vs poor. the rich say if you if you unionize if you make a living wage we will move your job to india or china and if we cant move your job we will hire illegals to do it for cheap and off the books. theres no jobs cause the rich dont care about this country all they care about is their bottom line. soon their will be no middle class.
sabres633 1 year ago 2
@Number1POTter Unions helped American workers gain a semblance of a decent living standard, you idiot. What destroyed American jobs was globalization and free-trade agreements that allowed US businesses to outsource work into the third-world. Asshats like yourself don't realize that we cannot compete with the third-world for the affections of our corporate masters unless we whore ourselves out like the third-world does. That is why we need to trade on our own terms and not under some agreement.
sandro28grizz 1 year ago 6
@Number1POTter Jobs are only cheaper overseas because unions are banned over there. Try organizing a union in China or Taiwan. Then you'll understand why corporations move their businesses there. Let them unionize.
CrawdaddyJoe 9 months ago
He just wants you to vote for Obama so he can make money off of Cap and Trade.
bigh124 1 year ago
now that's a speech
burra007 1 year ago
HURRAHH
kadeem121 1 year ago
And if Obama's policies are actually bad for working America, then this argument is moot.
NYerintransit 1 year ago
I am a Union Firefighter and had my head in the sand for three years. After watching this I am done with the Union, schmucks!
lutzag40 1 year ago
This guy fights for a living wage for the middle class, as well as myself and other union members do. I don't care what his salt intake is, in fact it is irrelevant. When a corporation leaves a state, blame the greedy CEO of the company, not the victims who are barely scraping by to feed their families...which will starve if they are forced to live off of minimum wage. SCREW SCAB LABOR.
antifaith82 1 year ago 3
Its not RACIST to OPPOSE SOCIALISM.
ITS AMERICAN!
jmaschle 1 year ago
@jmaschle So I'm sure you oppose public schools and public universities, right?
RedStateProgressive 1 year ago
@RedStateProgressive I am against 1) teachers unions 2) distributing condoms 3) using public school as a platform to teach liberalism instead of RRR, 4) public institutions rejecting military recruitment, 5) rejecting prayer/Pledge, 6) promoting anything but abstinence education, 7) teaching anthropomorphic global warning as established fact, 8) redirecting facilities maintenance funding to staff salaries, 9) the lack of promoting American Exceptionalism, 10) free lunch, 11) charter restrictions
jmaschle 1 year ago
A very passionate speaker.
NYerintransit 1 year ago 3
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This guy is such a lier!
85Pats 1 year ago
@85Pats About what?
cameo9876 1 year ago
@cameo9876: Note the lack of response from 85Pats. No facts, just . . . name-calling.
Trumka is an interesting mix of good old fashioned union leadership and modern sensibility.
YouzTube99 1 year ago 3
@YouzTube99 Amen. And duly noted....
cameo9876 1 year ago
@85Pats
and a play on white guilt.
spssw 1 year ago
@spssw Exactly!
85Pats 1 year ago
@85Pats Learn to spell and maybe you'll be taken more seriously.
RedStateProgressive 1 year ago
@RedStateProgressive It's called a typo. And who's not taking me seriously?
85Pats 1 year ago
@adamttown
Yes, just like Adolf, Saddam and Stalin.
bruthav 1 year ago
Tools.... "Show how unracist you are by giving Barack Obama your pity vote!"
This discussion should have never been had in the first place.
SySt3m 1 year ago
This guy is an idiot.
Dealit707 1 year ago
@Dealit707 Oh the irony of your comment.
NewYorkCityUSA7 1 year ago
@NewYorkCityUSA7 what's the Irony, the guy IS and idiot. We all know guys like this, he can't control his beer or salt intake, but he gets a red face about some dumb ass shit and a bunch of union boobs feel like they found god. hahah alol what a bunch of loser, the reason this country is fucked.
ORVX 1 year ago
@ORVX Once again, very ironic; how about the next time YOU decide to call someone an idiot you proof read your own stupid sounding comment. Looks like your comment was written by a 5 year old. God our public school system sucks.
NewYorkCityUSA7 1 year ago 2
John Kerry, Al Gore, and Bill Clinton all got over 90% of the black vote when they ran for President, and all are white. What Black candidate running for any office in this land ever got 90% of the white vote?
LITEBRITE65 1 year ago
A plAy on a old song..
Hey Nikki... you're so blind... you're so blind... you blow my mind... Hey Nikki..
I am white... I have lived and worked in cities and towns with "Black People" and find your statements false to say the least. You my freind do not have a clue... No... wait you do have a clue... Your a RACIST and you know it.
Also the reason he may look constipated is because he's got a case of the ass with Hillbilly racist like yourself.
GO TRUMPKA... GO OBAMA...
lbr0725 1 year ago 5
Hey Ibr.
I'm a proud trade unionist. What do you do for work.?..hmmm...my guess is that you are not even working class.
nikkithehuskydog 1 year ago
True statement. I am black. Whites like you are the reason why we have gotten as far as we have. Educated whites and blacks.
gqslimm 1 year ago
I mention AFL-CIO in The History Song.
superdavid002 1 year ago
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amarlinbaxter 1 year ago
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It seems that Ohio has lost 3 corporations to Atlanta in the past 8 months. Those three companies would be NCR, Fischbein and Novelis (they make aluminum cans). Georgia is a right-to-work state. In Georgia you cannot be forced to join a union in order to get a job.
This lesson is not easily learned in states with forced union membership laws. That's fine. Let their economies suffer the consequences of a union-dominated government.
dijhili 1 year ago
Let the country suffer for lack of worker bargaining rights and the loss of spending power with the subsequent loss of the middle class.
cameo9876 1 year ago 5
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Trumka...................get a real job.
RussMusiq 1 year ago