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Mich. Union Hiring Homeless People to Picket
- Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:23am by
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“Astroturfing: An artificially-manufactured political movement designed to give the appearance of grass roots activism.”
If ever you wanted to see a great example of “astroturfing,” then the video below might become a part of your permanent library. The Mackinac Center, a public policy think tank in Michigan, has uncovered an interesting little detail in the local carpenters union’s fight against a non-union developer: the union is hiring down-and-outs to do its picketing:
(H/T: Blaze Reader Pat)
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Comments (195)
hidden_lion
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:55amwhy don’t union workers band together, quit their current jobs and start their own Co-op company? with all the money they have spent in dues over the years they should have no problem…Oh yeah, they are lazy hacks who want more than they are worth in pay an benefits and don’ have the ability to create for themselves. Wouldn‘t want to cut into Trumpka’s sweet pay check.
Report Post »2gether
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:50pmI hate to say it but when you spend all that you make assuming that the well will never run dry and then it does, you have nowhere to turn and you have nothing to fall back on…Save for a rainy day? Hardly…Buy the biggest house take the big vacations, run up the credit card debt…”want my kids to have what I didn’t have”…on and on and on. I don’t think these people could even make a mortgage payment if they took a cut in pay, that’s why the workers are scared. The thug bosses don’t carte about that though, they only want to secure union dues for union pensions and oh yeah, salaries for all the lying they do. As Conservatives we have nothing to fear, we have towed the line, stayed back from the traps and have been pragmatic. In the end the truth will win. Truth has no agenda and most anyone with a sane brain will recognize the truth eventually.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:55amTypical leftist tactic…. they don’t have the numbers, Conservatives outnumber the moucher-class 2 to 1, so they have to scrap the bottom of the barrel and find anyone with a heart-beat to hold a sign for a pack of cigarettes to come rally for their side….
So while on the Conservative and Tea Party side, we have a true, honest real grass-roots movement…
On the left they have a back alley, gutter, homeless shelter movement…
These people could NEVER make it in the real world, working in the private sector and having to be accountable for coming into work, working a full days work, working and competing for raises and promotions, so they have to hide behind the bullying tactics of Trumka and Obama to lash out for them, so that these lazy good for nothings can keep working their cushy union overpaid jobs…
Report Post »Mr. Apathy
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:53amThey do that here in my Home Town with the local Walmarts. The United Commercial Food Workers get paid more to picket than they do working at their regular work. It’s a joke with the parking lot always full, the shelves always picked over and all the union jackets inside looking for a deal.
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:51amHow is it going for you who voted for Obama? The nation is lost. This black demon is destroying it, as he said he would do.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:42amThe unions are hiring the homeless because hiring their own people WOULD COST TOO MUCH! They get paid minimum wage with no breaks for coffee or lunch, and NO BENEFITS! This allows them to keep the leg breakers handy for the opportunity to beat up on counter protests which are expected in Wisconsin today.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:42amgreat business opportunity guys! We can call it “Thugs-R-US “! Rent signs, bullhorn and other paraphernalia. We could have custom orders for creative stuff like he a homophobic, islamophobic ,
racist who wants to kill old people and babies.
Your one stop shop for all your political activist tools. Special discount for all you left wing nut jobs just mention the code phrase “It Bush’s fault“ or ”Glenn is a freak” to get your discount.
Report Post »ivdad
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 1:33pmDo you supply bail for thugs that attack those with opposite opinions, or is that extra?
Report Post »simple thought
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:42amgo figure,
Report Post »unions, they need to know one thing……..
we the tea party out # them,
and we will go to the ballot box……
there reign of terror on common workers is over………….
Hisemiester
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:41amI’ll tell the carpenters union members in Mich. You have priced yourselves out of the market. No longer can the housing market afford you. Saw it happen in Ca. I was a union carpenter for most of my life in Ca. Until the Unions destroyed the publics ability to afford a union carpenter. How does the old saying go. How Low can you go? What you are doing is pretty low.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:17pmHad a friend from church in the 80′s who was a union carpenter. He was always out of work because there just weren’t enough union jobs. He and his family moved from house to house, always behind on their rent and leaving a slough of unpaid debt behind them. I was a Builder and offered him a job. He wouldn’t take it unless it was cash, so that he could keep his insurance benefits. So, he remained in poverty just for insurance while he could have had a regular (good) income and afford a decent life. The mindset of the union worker (at least those who are pro-union and not just forced because of their job affiliation such as nurses and teachers, is broken. They can’t think of any alternatives because the corruption of the union system is just too powerful for their minds to think out of the box. Very sad indeed. Same goes for those who are working in the non-private market (public employment. Unions will have to disappear or be greatly weakened before the tides will turn and a healing can begin.
Report Post »southernORcobra
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:40amnot suprised they are the minority so they gotta hire people to make themselves look like the majority. Another double standard brought to you by libs
Report Post »butler180
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:39amUnion dues at work.
Report Post »When are the rank and file going to wake up and elect leaders who care about them and get out of politics?
912828Buckeye
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:11pmButler when you go to a meeting and challenge the union leadership
Report Post »You will be TOLD to leave, if you resist you will be “helped “ out and
the law will be called to remove you from the premises.
I’ve seen it happen to my chapter president. He resigned not long after.
lizaz
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:39amUnions are desperate and, hopefully, soon to be irrelevant. I think a lot of union members are beginning to figure it out…..
Report Post »MAJORMINOR
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:00pmMore states need the “Right to Work” laws instead of closed shops if the rank and file are ever going to wake up and smell the coffee and reduce the financial clout of their non-working union bosses.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:39amYet another reason for unions to be taken down a peg or two.
Btw, hello everyone. New poster here, although I’ve been following The Blaze for a while now.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:24pmWelcome to the Blaze Doc.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 4:56pmHello Doc
Report Post »In your conversations with other Doc’s how does Obummercare affect you and your practices?
schizgnit
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:38amthere you go, carpenters of Michigan. that much more of your money now going to a proxy on top of political donations. making even that much more unsustainable and vulnerable to be jobless.
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:37amWhen Glen was teaching us about the “bottom up top down” theroy of how men like Van Jones want the people to revolt. Lets hope all the lefties are the ones that protest and riot so they will be the ones that get hauled off to the internment camps or concentration camps. That would be a great idea to get rid of a bunch of rubbish minded people.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 2:03pmJezreel:
Report Post »It will be the lefties that will be the ones to rise up so that Van Jones’s philosophy will come about because they will make it look like they are the impoverished and the downtroden and when the top comes down it comes down on the conservatives since the lefties will be considered freindly and they will be the part that like a waffle or toasted cheese sandwich comes out the sides when the squeeze is on(top down).
TheRev1776
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:36amUnions=garbage. Times are different. We are our own selves. Taxed and force to pay dues is no way for a free American to live. Unions are a joke.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:56amAgreed, the unions have become another form of legalized monopolies, and should be broken up and done away with. Their time is done, now they need to go the way of the dinosaurs once and for all.
Report Post »TheRev1776
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:00pmExcuse my lack of past tense, “forced” is what I meant to type. Sometimes I get ahead of myself and hurried.
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 11:46pmUnions have outlived their purpose. We now have laws and regulations to protect workers, so there is no need for bargaining units. All they are is a way to legally EXTORT money from companies. Do the workers see any of it? Never. Only the Union bosses. Try checking into their salaries and how they live. Has anyone done that yet? Hey, Breitbart.TV, do your job.
Report Post »Dstarr55
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:34amRelating this to Wisconsin’s protest – yesterday CNN had a ‘journalist’ who was asked if he could see people from outside the state of Wisconsin as part of the protest. He said he did not see any as most of the people he saw was ‘wearing red’ apparently the color of Wisconsin. Really, a red sweat shirt can only be worn by people from the state of Wisconsin, not passed out by the unions busing them in? I guess that is what we now consider in-depth reporting.
Report Post »LAM2
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:12pmIn the run up to WWII with respect to Germany, wasn’t the Soviet mantra, “First Brown, then Red.”?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:21pm@Lam2
It was, and another interesting bit of trivia is that when Stalin realized how desperate the hopes for the USSR were, in regards to the people he did not appeal to the communist idealology for their call to duty and to war…he called on the “People of the Rodina” or “People of the Mother Russia” and to rise in her defense.
Interesting that he was a fanatical communist, yet when ideology hit the wall and shattered, he then resorted to national honor and duty to fulfill the needs for the time.
Report Post »2gether
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 7:34pmI believe I saw Trumpka wearing a red shirt…hmmmmm what state is he from…maybe I should ask what country is he from/for?
Report Post »Dstarr55
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:33amCNN had a ‘journ
Report Post »Dstarr55
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:35amSorry, clicked post too early
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:18pmHave done that myself a few times, so do not feel bad.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:33amWell, that’s good for a few homeless people for a short time, but it exposes the lack of real support the unions have. I hope the fight against unions to enough of a head to rid the country of most of their corruption and damage to America.
Report Post »noline
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:33amThey do this everywhere, often and with a great deal of greed in there hearts.
Report Post »KEA
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:30amIt will never end until we get back to GOD! Union dues to hire homeless, pay political contributions all the while claiming they are broke and want more? If they would abolish this kind of crap they would have more money in their pocket!
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:30amI hope the IRS is there to get a list of who is getting taxable income – all those new agents need to be broken in and what better place to start than a union paid demonstration. If someone is shot or injured I wonder if the unions will step up and pay the medical bills? Perhaps just put is on Trumpka’s Master Card or Visa. All the sheeple looking for handouts at the expense of their families and neighbors – yes, this can go the other way too.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:46amGrandmaof5, good morning, going to rain some here today according to the news. Then again they said the high would be 63 and said right after the temp was 68 degrees.
All of those new IRS agents should be sicked upon the unions and their masters; that would be one interesting chase, seeing the agents running around the building looking for the real books while the real books are being passed room to room and hidden away quickly to avoid ‘confiscation’ and such.
Good idea.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 4:49pmWhat, you want to ruin their chances of the monthly handout from the government? are you crazy? giving those people a job, any job and paying them could take away their Obama given right to be lazy.
Report Post »mrfunn
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:30am.
Hey Obama,
Here is a great way to create some new jobs.
Report Post »pugsly84
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:01pmLOL!!!! COOTUS Community Organizer of the United States Obama is probably paying them.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:14pmThree kids
Report Post »Three different fathers.
No husband.
Your qualified to join Obummers Ho Union.
Bluebonnet
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 11:36amThis kinda like paying someone else to go through the labor pains for you before childbirth. You can pay them, but the pain is still with the birth mother, not the surrogate.
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:29amNothing new here. Nothing to see here. Please disperse!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjK2Oqrgic
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:35am(Obi wan: “Move along here there is nothing to be seen…”
(Storm trooper: “Move along here, there is nothing to see…”
(Obi wan: “Now, I need my car waxed, polished and ready for the show tonight at six…”
(Storm trooper: “YES SIR!”
(Obi wan; “All too easy…oh, master yoda, about me going to the show tonight…Kitchen duty…for me…ulp.)
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:40amMorning, Snow, hope all is well with you today (mom and friend also). Balmy weather, birds and squirrels are entertaining the inside cats – pure comedy. What happened to pix on your blog name?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:50am@Grandmaof5
Morning, glad the cats are being entertained; not sure what you mean by the pix on my blog name, it should still be there like most of the other screen names have. Will check it out though, thanks.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:54am@Grandmaof5
Just checked my profile picture (my latest fairy cat girl), and the link to my gallery; all seems to be working good. What is not showing up on your end of the post?
Maybe a union hacker has attacked my cat girls in an attempt to get them unionized and make them into the movement of ‘oppressed masses of the feline folks around the universe,,,’
Report Post »Upsetcitizen
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:28amWow, they will do anything to push their agenda
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:32amSuprised?
Report Post »MAJORMINOR
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:54amWhat’s the union scale for picketing?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:25pm@Majorminor
Best as I can tell from a quick search, it varies from union to union, and state to state.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:52pmMajor
Report Post »A bottle of MD20/20 and a vial of crack
J.C. McGlynn
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 3:00pmWhy is everyone bummed??? Because they are not paying union members at union pay scales to walk the line?!?!?!?
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 11:44pmSo, when will the Tea Party people use the same (peaceful) tactics? Turn about IS fair play.
Report Post »We need to support the Governor of WI and all the Conservatives who want to save our country, one state at a time!
Quigley
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 7:48pmNothin‘ new for the Carpenters’ Union. Set up a picket, hire punks to walk their shift whilst they go out and build decks and fences and bid against us independents. I saw this crap fifteen years ago here in KC. I jack with those rent-a-Commies every time I catch the azzes on a line. Organized Labor, Organized Religion and Organized Crime … see a pattern? All out to screw the flock and extort them once a week.
The Carpenter Union struck the Truman Sports Complex in ‘71(?) and cost us our rolling roof then and hosting a SuperBowl. Shortsighted greedy bastards.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:27amNO suprise here that they would chose to do this; fulfilling the old adage of ‘when in doubt about a subject, fake it.” So it has been done in his case.
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:33amThat’s it in a nutshell Snow. I have a friend who is laid off right now and belongs to a union. He recently got a great offer for a job. The union started harassing him when they found out. They told him he “would regret it” if he took the job. Even with their own members out of work, they hire homeless people to protest. Hypocrites.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the lesson in civility video
Report Post »npbreakthrough
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:35amPelosi told reporters Friday that the protests are “an extraordinary show of democracy in action.”
“Wisconsin’s workers, teachers and public servants must have a seat at the table to fight for a safe workplace,” she said. “I stand in solidarity with the Wisconsin workers fighting for their rights, especially for all the students and young people leading the charge.
………
and what did pelosi say about astroturf tea party???
Ruler4You
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:36amYou union folks, this is the kind of use of your union dues your union has in mind. Not your “pension”, not your “benefits”, not your best interest, but theirs. After all they are making six figure salaries with great benefits. Not you.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:40am@CnsrvtvJ
Hypocrits indeed, hypocrisy is the progressives, union leaders, communists, etc. means and holiest bibles of lies and injustices.
Thought this might be of some interest, one friend I have here went to a “Communists of America” debate forum (I know, a debate forum among communists is a contradiction in terms), and he asked them ‘why should we follow anyone who has a working brain cell to believe a system that has proven to be a bigger failure in the world history than imperialism, tyranny and all that junk?”
He was bombasted with the usual rhetoric and garbage slogans of theirs, without one bit of hard proof to back the outrageous claims the Communists tried to make.
And for the record too, just for reference, Paul, my friend, comes from the former soviet union and has a masters degree in economics here in America, and a History degree from the university of Kiev, in the politics of old mother russia.
Report Post »midcoastmainepatriot
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:43amOutlaw all unions,cancel all pensions,fire all lay-abouts and cap all retirement plans to 2500.00 a month max.Its OVER,the mammary has dried up…..Time to make a go at it in the dreaded private sector!!!! Welcome to the real world!!!!! Sink or swim on your own merits!!!!! Good Luck
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:43am@npbreakthrough
For a moment when you mentioned Pelosi and astroturf in the same sentence, I had to wonder if you were describing a new hair style she has been seen with.
It is interesting the hypocrasy of Pelosi who called the tea parties ‘astroturf’ and claims that the ‘grass roots movement’ of Wisconsin is the real thing when in fact it has become organized under the administration and the unions.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:48amwhatever it takes….brake the law…makes no difference to the liberal progressives. so long as their agenda gets moved forward. Time for a road block America. Literally…a road block of humanity.
Report Post »wallyrenfaw
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:49amYO YO YO y’all. Now Glenn Beck’s gotta attack the man down on his luck when he finally get a shot at a paycheck. Man, what up wid dat?
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:50amI believe it. Back before Obamacare got passed. There was a rally by the Tea Party here in Michigan and then there were a group of people I swear and I said it then, I bet they were taken from homeless shelters. Their clothes were mismatched, They were given purses to hold, like they were being dressed for the event. There were nothing in these purses, They were flat, their makeup was all the same color and not put on right. There were a couple college looking kids there with clip boards and when the bused in picketer was done they got their name checked off and handed in their signs. I took pictures of the people handing in their signs and the college students
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:51amThe AFL/CIO, AFSCME and OCSEA are all run by and in bed with
Report Post »Marxist organizations. I HAVE to pay dues to these thugs as a condition
of employment but I hope that will change soon.
Xcori8r
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:51amIt’s good that the union pays homeless people that “do not say nothing” when protesting.
They speak for themselves — and for the union.
Report Post »donald_trump's_combover
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:52amSnowleopard, if you were homeless, wouldn’t you accept a job of this nature?
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 11:54amTHE REPUBLICANS ARE COWARDS
If its 19 Republicans to 14 Democrats, then they have a quorum. If they need one democrat then one of the Republicans should switch to Democrat so the vote can be taken. Its as if the GOP is searching for some excuse not to pass this legislation. Let the Democrats stay away until the next election. Grid lock is in our best interest.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:00pmIf you don‘t like what they’re doing, then you yourself ought to bribe the homeless by giving to them in abundance.
These people are exploiting them.
Invest in people.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:02pmHey HappyBoy
That’s a really big stretch. You must hate conservatives and republicans “just because”. You are in so deep denial would be a good start for a cure. Must be hell being you. In the end, guys like you lose….BIG TIME
Report Post »what4
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:14pmIts amazing how much you can get for a pack of smokes these days!
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:16pmWait for it, wait for it, waaaaaaaait for it. There! There it is! My surprised face……………….
.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:22pm@midcoastmainepatriot,
“Its OVER,the mammary has dried up…”
LOL @ shriveled mammaries. :)
Report Post »Think4yourself
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 12:55pmTypical example of union coruption.
http://www.unsalvageable.org
Report Post »mcfinch
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 1:03pmNo surprise the liberal way.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Video Website
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 1:21pmWell with what unions have done to Michigan along with the PROGRESSIVES they support .. they will have a lot of people to picket for them. Wow things are so much better (not) under dear leader Obama.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 1:23pmMakes me so Proud to be a FORMER Michigander …
Report Post »Dale
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 1:32pmwallyrenfaw;
No one is blaming the poor ‘down and out’ers for getting a pay check. The problem is who is paying them and why. The union won‘t pay union scale for ’strikers’. What hypocrites. If the union members thought the union had a claim, they would be on the picket line – no union members – no claim. Hypocrites!
Report Post »Jayk Signal
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 1:34pmMore jobs ‘saved or created’ by stimulus funds.
Now you see how the circle of corruptions works:
Obama gives our tax dollars to state governments as “stimulus.”
Report Post »State government give money to state employees.
State employees give the money to their union.
The union hires protesters to demand more money from taxpayers.
Go back to start.
Gerrymanderer
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 2:06pmMany respondents here act as though Union members are your enemy. When in fact I’m sure your brother, uncle, neighbor, and perhaps even yourself is in some way are affiliated and receive benefits from unions.
Report Post »Jayk Signal
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 2:22pm@Gerrymanderer
I‘m not sure if you’re trying to obscure the lines intentionally.
But there’s a key distinction between public and private sector unions.
If a private company makes too many concessions, eventually the company will go broke and greed will take its natural course, the union will be ‘busted’ by the realities of the market system, and a fitter competitor will grow in its place.
In the public sector, leaders make concessions with no such concern. After all, they reason, the taxpayer is a bottomless well. But when their concessions to the unions eventually bankrupt the government, we‘re not going to like the ’fitter competitor’ that grows in its place.
Report Post »what4
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 2:24pm@ Gerrymander
Report Post »Not even 1-10 Americans are union members, those in my family that are should be commited! Their lazy slugs living off of the hard working taxpayers!
J.C. McGlynn
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 3:13pmI was in THREE unions in my working career. All they did was take money from my paycheck so I could work. If I didn‘t join the union I didn’t get the job. Any other time it would be called its true name “EXTORTION”!!!.
Report Post »Jayk Signal
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 3:20pm@J.C.
I concur. I was in a no-opt-out union once also.
The thing I noticed is in a union environment the managers are always cast in an adversarial role. And they respond accordingly.
Ever since, I’ve avoided unions. I’ve found relations with owners/managers in non-union workplaces is usually more of a team effort where you work with managers as friends and peers in order to beat the competition instead of each other.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 5:18pmthey are to dern lazy to work and to dern lazy to protest so they pay homeless to pickett for them, now i think i have heard it all
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:40pm“They told me not to say nothin” !!!
Report Post »Sounds like good advice to me.
Bluebonnet
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 8:51pmSurprise, surprise. Can’t do the dirty work themselves, so they pay anyone they can find who will hold and sign and keep their mouths shut. So like the Union and Democrat party. So. what’s new?
Report Post »pscully17
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 9:02pmProtestitutes!!! people being paid to hold signs, chant anti-American Rhetoric and create noise for $1
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 10:19pmI was in the IBEW back in the seventies. They used to hire bums to do the picketing when it was called for because all of the union members went fishing! When we finally went back to work, they assessed us another dollar a week each on our duesfor three months as a penalty for not showing up on the picket lines. The problem sprang from the fact that the rank and file did not want to walk off the job, (it was not over wages but over something trivial the employer wanted us to do that the leadership thought was worth another body on the job), but the leadership insisted we strike. I was glad. The kingfish run had started. I got to fish and some alkie got a few days work on the picket line.
Report Post »1911a1
Posted on February 19, 2011 at 10:53pmAmazing they will hire homeless to pickett for them , but they wont hire them for a real job ,,,, unless they have a relative or buddy to put a word in for them. Sorry arse unions !
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 3:57amAll I have to say is, “Hey, Wisconsin? Keep it up and you, too, can look like Detroit.” Idiots!
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 7:40amYes… And while Ms. Pelosi labeled the Tea Party movement as an “astroturf” movement, she “stands in solidarity” with this “grass roots” movement…
With the Progressives, up is down, left is right, red is blue, and bad is good… American Patriots? Bad: Racist, Anti-Immigrant, Nativist, Protectionist, Backwards… Anti-American Globalists? Good: Non-Racist, Pro-Immigrant, Open Borders, Spread the Wealth, Modern…
These Progressives are turning our country upside-down!
Report Post »LadyLibertykicksASS
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 11:00amAt least they’re doing some good for someone……Now Gov. Walker just needs to fire all the
Report Post »Teachers that are “Sick” and hire some that will be grateful for a job.!!!!!
drbage
Posted on February 20, 2011 at 3:04pmAnother real irony or hypocrisy here is that the taxpayers are not only paying for the demonstrations by the “poor teachers”(even though their average salaries and benefits are significantly higher than the national average), they are also paying for the extra security and the busses in demonstrators.
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 9:29amWise up union members! Do you agree on what your hard earned money is being used for?
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 2:10pmthey have been doing this right along.. this is NOT the first time.. UNION members WON’T get out and protest for the most part UNLESS the union pays them.. Remember only 50% of the unions are PROGRESSIVES the other is CONSERVATIVES..BTW they also advertise at colleges for protesters.. they pay 9.65 an hour.. THOSE are the so called YOUTH movement..it’s become such a joke.. at least the right isn’t PAYING people.. although we should really be fighting fire with fire.. if we don‘t it’s OUR loss
Report Post »JamesF
Posted on February 21, 2011 at 11:27pmHow about we find out what they are being paid, offer some extra to carry a different sign for a couple hours…. You know what they say, you get what you pay for.
Report Post »Start a bidding war on homeless picketeers.