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1. #1
   On August 25th, 2010 at 10:35 am, Mister P said:

   We must get the SEIU OUT of the government period. We must ban government unions. They are a conflict of interest and creeps like Obama care less about that conflict.

2. #2
   On August 25th, 2010 at 10:42 am, TigerLady said:

   As I’ve noted over the last two years, it’s going to take a bottom-up revolt by disgusted rank-and-file members to stop the political raid on worker dues.

   I’d love to see this but don’t see it happening as long as union workers get a piece of the pie; lower insurance rates, and higher salaries and job security.

   Do you think the teacher’s union will ever revolt. Not likely.

3. #3
   On August 25th, 2010 at 11:00 am, Pat said:

   Sue them! I did, and won.

   http://www.nrtw.org/

   They have no legal right to use your dues for political purposes.

4. #4
   On August 25th, 2010 at 11:08 am, Pasadena Phil said:

   Start at home. Challenge your local politicians. Make them prove how much they pay themselves for instance. Ask them how much money they are getting from unions. If you live in a sanctuary city, ask them point blank how much money they are getting directly from the drug cartels or from their money laundering “too big to fail” banks.

5. #5
   On August 25th, 2010 at 11:15 am, trappedinnj said:

   $88 Million nationwide…bring it on..

   Just a little context…the NJEA spent over $50 million here in little ol’ joisey on ads against Christ Christie since the day he announced he’s running and got stomped. I despise the NJEA.

   The teachers here finally got smart and voted down a recent plan to increase dues for more anti-christie ads.

6. #6
   On August 25th, 2010 at 11:16 am, Pasadena Phil said:

   Maybe GOP’s CA sweetheart Meg Whitman has figured out how to “fix the state budget woes” without addressing the union problem. She sure is getting a major free ride by the Republican media who are ignoring that her plan is limited to eliminating “waste and corruption”. Why didn’t someone else of that before?

   The unrepentant GOP’s leadership is leading us into what may become a very violent future. What will it take to actually stand for something? If they can’t speak the words, don’t expect any action.

7. #7
   On August 25th, 2010 at 11:30 am, Flyoverman said:

   Forewarned is forearmed. Thanks Michelle.

8. #8
   On August 25th, 2010 at 11:46 am, Mister P said:

   Isn’t Meg a big fan of Van Jones?

9. #9
   On August 25th, 2010 at 11:47 am, Ragspierre said:

   I think this is good and bad.

   It is good, because the Collective is being flushed from its coverts. It has to come out in the open now and fight as what it is.

   It is bad, because it is not powerless. It cheats, lies, and steals.

   Expect a lot of twisted little oaks to spring up from the corpse of ACORN.

   http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/08/an-acorn-grows-in-texas.html

10. #10
    On August 25th, 2010 at 11:53 am, tarpon said:

    And here you would have thought public service was about service, not stealing.

11. #11
    On August 25th, 2010 at 11:56 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    On August 25th, 2010 at 11:46 am, Mister P said:

    Isn’t Meg a big fan of Van Jones?

    She’s not that well-informed. She just said that she “heard good things about him” when asked. This is someone who never voted. Her qualifications for being a Republican are that she wants the job and has the money to buy it. She has already spent over $100 million telling us she is on both sides of the important issues, one in English and one in Spanish, and will now spend $50 million telling us she is on everybody’s side except those crazy right-wingers in the GOP.

12. #12
    On August 25th, 2010 at 12:16 pm, txvet2 said:

    Yeah, Governor Moonbeam will be much better for California. I’m surprised anybody still lives in that basket case of a state, although they’re moving to Texas by the thousands. Stop it. Fix your own state or live with it, but stop moving here and trying to screw up ours.

13. #13
    On August 25th, 2010 at 12:26 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Thomas Jefferson said, “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

    This says it all.

14. #14
    On August 25th, 2010 at 12:30 pm, Desert Dave said:

    Hey Phil, I live in CA too, and I guess this is a case of the lesser of two evils. I’m sure as hell not voting for that old retread Jerry Brown. I don’t think we have much of a conservative in Meg, but it beats the alternative (maybe). I really thought Arnold might change things, but he became a RINO–or always was! Never trust a politician married to a Kennedy.

15. #15
    On August 25th, 2010 at 12:31 pm, txvet2 said:

    On August 25th, 2010 at 12:26 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Yeah, and now it applies to most of the “Country Class“, not just union members.

16. #16
    On August 25th, 2010 at 12:50 pm, AmericaFirst said:

    McCain spent 1/4 of that amount for his own Senate PRIMARY campaign. Puts Democrat Thug Unions and their ideological buddy McCain in prospective. So much for campaign finance reform, huh Mr Open Borders McCain?

17. #17
    On August 25th, 2010 at 12:58 pm, cheapseat said:

    Any republican coming out of california, like republicans coming out of the NE U.S. WILL BE A RINO, and the best we can hope for is 50% of their votes. That’s life. To expect more, is an exercise in beating your head against a wall. It only stops hurting when you stop doing it.

18. #18
    On August 25th, 2010 at 1:24 pm, orlandocajun said:

    On August 25th, 2010 at 10:35 am, Mister P said:

    We must get the SEIU OUT of the government period. We must ban government unions. They are a conflict of interest and creeps like Obama care less about that conflict.

    Reagan has a solution for government unions…he fired every single air traffic controller who went on strike in the 80s. There are millions of people ready and willing to take their places in today’s environment. Of course, that’s only government unions.

19. #19
    On August 25th, 2010 at 1:25 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    If unions exist to protect workers from evil, greedy corporations, what are Government Employee unions protecting the workers from?!
    There should be no such thing as a union for government workers. Period!

20. #20
    On August 25th, 2010 at 1:42 pm, rambler said:

    May this merger collapse under its own weight.

21. #21
    On August 25th, 2010 at 2:03 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    As I’ve noted over the last two years, it’s going to take a bottom-up revolt by disgusted rank-and-file members to stop the political raid on worker dues.

    Dear Union Members,
    Are you better off now than you were two years ago?

22. #22
    On August 25th, 2010 at 2:03 pm, letget said:

    No wonder these unions want the taxpayers to bail them out, they are spending millions of their members retirement to get these d’s elected. I just wonder, if we could actually get the true facts/numbers, how much of all the bills passed with all the money not spent, are going to these unions? I detest unions, every flying flit of them!
    L

23. #23
    On August 25th, 2010 at 2:17 pm, Rorschach said:

    Here in Houston a former SEIU organizer is running a voter registration drive eerily similar to Acorn’s Project Vote where they are paying people for every application they turn in. Not surprisingly out of the tens of thousands of applications they turned in, only a small percentage were new voters, and many of them were fraudulent.

    http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2010/08/houston-votes-group-submitted-false-voter-registrations-in/1282684719.column

24. #24
    On August 25th, 2010 at 2:20 pm, John Deaux said:

    support pro-union candidates, most of them Democrats.

    Let me guess. The other one is an independent Senate candidate from Florida?

25. #25
    On August 25th, 2010 at 2:41 pm, Southpaw said:

    In California, to keep state workers employed, the state is raiding the funds of counties and school districts.
    This will result in county and teachers union workers loosing their jobs. They have destroyed the private economy and are now reduced to eating their own.

    Should get interesting.

26. #26
    On August 25th, 2010 at 3:33 pm, martin.musculus said:

    I am glad I’m near the end of my life, though I weep for my grand & great-grand children.

    For health reasons, I no longer associate with anyone who voted for Der Cockroach, (I made my list before the “jr.cockroaches” – i.e., his supporters – started running under the stove & refrigerator, and wet rocks…). Since they (in effect) voted for my euthanasia I see no reason to tolerate their presence.

    Being over 95, on the “Whole Life System” chart, under that formula, I wind up owing the state approximately $72.41

    Since it seems that I will not have a choice in the matter of “when” because of rationing, and my termination will come all-the-sooner if the Netherlands Protocol is adopted here in the U.S., I have taken time to consider what, exactly, “euthanasia” means — or can be taken to mean.

    The term “euthanasia” is derived from the Greek, and translates as “good death”. There are many ways to make your death a “good death”.

    My family wants me to go to New Zealand, but I won’t run… (ok, hold the jokes about an old codger w/a cane “running” [grin]). I am going to stand or fall for My Country. I’ve fought in My Country’s wars, (3 of them, no matter that they weren’t always called by that name…) — I won’t abandon Her now! But, what to do at my age?

    Any suggestions?

27. #27
    On August 25th, 2010 at 3:59 pm, letget said:

    martin.musculus#29,
    My suggestion is to just know that millions of American’s love and appreciate you for your service to our country and as bad as things have become here under this bho, America is the best country in the world! We hope come Nov. to change a few things so you will feel comfortable again. God be with you and your family.
    L

28. #28
    On August 25th, 2010 at 4:23 pm, RedDog said:

    …which unions say will energize an army of tens of thousands who will return to their neighborhoods, churches, schools and voting booths to prevent a Republican takeover of Congress in November and begin building a new permanent coalition to fight for a progressive agenda.

    That’s pretty funny. The Union Thugees want to keep the same people in power who are currently in the process of simultaneously wrecking the country and robbing the life savings of all working Americans. That is a “progressive” agenda that they want to build on? God help us all.

    I hope they do continue to spend their members’ dues money by the tens of millions, sooner or later it’s going to dawn on them that they are being played for suckers…. although liberal Black Americans – not so much. Hopefully they will wake up before November but I am not holding my breath. The entitlement germ is very resistent.

29. #29
    On August 25th, 2010 at 9:00 pm, wren said:

    On August 25th, 2010 at 10:42 am, TigerLady said:

    Do you think the teacher’s union will ever revolt. Not likely.

    Prepare for members of the teacher’s union to revolt in California.

    The Democrat leaders in Los Angeles that the union member dues paid to elect have just unveiled the new Robert F. Kennedy Learning Center which they spent $578 million to build – The most expensive public school ever.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-taj-mahal-schools,0,6763277.story

    Meanwhile…

    The pricey schools have come during a sensitive period for the nation’s second-largest school system: Nearly 3,000 teachers have been laid off over the past two years, the academic year and programs have been slashed. The district also faces a $640 million shortfall and some schools persistently rank among the nation’s lowest performing.

    Hmmm…How many of those teachers would still be employed, if the Union didn’t have to pay off the Construction Workers?

    But of course, the Democrats do it all for the children, right?

30. #30
    On August 25th, 2010 at 9:39 pm, mattm said:

    This also shows that they are desperate. They can’t win on ideas so they have to spend millions of members dues on these ads.

31. #31
    On August 26th, 2010 at 2:51 pm, martin.musculus said:

    On August 25th, 2010 at 9:00 pm, wren said:

    . . .

    Hmmm…How many of those teachers would still be employed, if the Union didn’t have to pay off the Construction Workers?

    But of course, the Democrats do it all for TO the children, right?

    There, fixed it for accuracy. Let’s agree to be honest & forthright here… we need to drop the euphemistic language — or we’ll never straighten this mess out!

32. #32
    On August 26th, 2010 at 3:05 pm, martin.musculus said:

    On August 25th, 2010 at 3:59 pm, letget said:

    Thank you for your kind words.
    I was sorry to have left the impression that I’m “uncomfortable” with Der Cockroach in the WH. It isn’t that at all, although it is a symptom of the problem.
    I’m not really so much concerned about my “comfort” — comfort is greatly overrated. I am truly concerned that my descendants will be serfs. We are a whisker away from that. I am beginning to wonder if Cockroach is running the debt up so as to have us default to his favorite tyranny. If you look at the ExecOrders he’s signed, and the way we are selling notes to China — backed by Our Lands and Mineral Rights, you could understand my worries. And the Fed is expanding its “ownership” of real estate hourly.

    After all, when you default on a car, they come and take it back.

    What happens when you default of Fed Bonds, remember before you make the “quickie response” that Der Cockroach is moving us under the jurisdiction of the UN Court system.