Union Protesters Overwhelm Security and Barge Into Banking Meeting
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A conference room at the J.W. Marriott hotel in Washington. (Photo: Hotel website)
A group of about 200 union protesters overwhelmed security at a Washington, D.C. hotel and barged into a mortgage banking meeting on Wednesday, according to the Huffington Post.
HuffPo says protesters dressed in hardhats and overalls yelled “Where are the jobs?“ and ”Where is the money?“ as they pushed through security in a ”scrum” and burst into a conference room of stunned bankers. The protest was reportedly aimed at the Pulte Group — which protesters say has received $900 million in tax breaks but has not created a sufficient number of jobs.
“Those tax breaks were supposed to create jobs,” Wayne Peworchik, one of the protesters, told HuffPo. “That was President Obama‘s and Congress’s intent.”
“Instead, Pulte laid off workers,” Peworchik added.
Protesters reportedly hailed from the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, and the AFL-CIO.
The summit was put on by the Mortgage Bankers Association of America at the J.W. Marriott hotel. The protest, which lasted about 10 minutes, ended when more security personnel responded to the incident.
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Comments (236)
mcpbob
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:14pmTHEY BELONG IN JAIL… AND NOT THE bankers, the Union scumbag looters
Report Post »Socco
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:35pmThey both belong in jail.
Report Post »auburntaylors96
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:14pmi know we’re not supposed to be inflammatory in our speach these days…..but…..union rioters (aka communists) should be dealt with most harshly, by security, by law enforcement and by the judicial system. when force is used by the leftists they should be dealt with using greater force. ‘hey union creeps’….the communists won’t raise everyone else up to your level…they will, however, tear you down to the level they deem ‘fair’. WAKE UP!!!
Report Post »Socco
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:40pmAs citizens we’ll have to do it ourselves. We should be picketing the unions, the members houses, the leaderships houses, and any politician that is in their pockets.
We need to do this without violence. Let them be the thugs, and we will capitalize on it with live footage of the beat-downs. Even though we know we can kick their collective asses, we need to be victimized by them to ruin their reputation in the eyes of the public.
Let them taste some of the medicine they invented.
Report Post »Failsafe
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:14pmUnion thugs vs. Wall St. welfare queens and kings…and the average middle class family soldiers on. Same revolution, different decade and language, can’t we get something new on the “history channel”?
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:13pmwe should take away their guns,…just in case
Report Post »CAmom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:09pmTo the bankers AND unions – the jobs were swallowed up by YOUR pensions.
Report Post »fan-of-glenn
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:07pmUnion Leaders are the root of most evil
Report Post »numbers
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:07pmUh, Pulte is a construction company and last I heard the fate of the construction industry was tied to the on-tanking real estate market. Of course they laid off workers. Looks like these union people don‘t or won’t see reality. No wonder Camden laid off all those firefighters and police once the unions said no salary/benefit cuts then they just cut people. (Of course, it’s interesting how Dems always cut essential services and education first.)
Report Post »Joisey
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:07pmAnd who was behind organizing this act of intimidation by Union Brown Shirts?
How long before they escalate to lynchings of business executives in the streets? And if that happens, and the people cry out for the government to restore order, well then, I guess El Presidente Al Barack Hussein Obama will just have to give the people what they want…by imposing a police state.
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:06pmWhere were the cops? Oh, they’re union idiots as well. Nothing to see here, move along…
Report Post »Essobk
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:06pmThere are times and company‘s that need unions because said company’s lack of
Report Post »Of carrying for employees. Example, the company I work for spent almos $100,000 building a Ginger bread house and castle for Christmas and then after Christmas put out a newsletter saying there would be no raises. So there strummed when unions are needed.
BlazingInSC
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:33pmSo Essobk – let me get this right… you are calling for a union because you got a gingerbread house instead of a raise? Oy vay! Your company probably didn’t use that 100000 as wisely as you would see fit to suit your own needs, but to call for a union in that case is just idiotic. I worked for a company that threw an annual Christmas party (cost lots) and one year we didn’t get raises – such is life. I made the decision to LEAVE that company and go work elsewhere for 30% more money.
Report Post »Essobk
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:21pmBlazing, I wasnt worried about myself as you seemed to think with regards to the money the company spent on a gingerbread house, but for the !00′s that were denied a raise because of the company putting its prestigious needs over the common welfare of its employees. I will be leaving this company, as Im a retired individual just doing something to pass the time and to keep busy, however those people starting out are the ones who are going to be paying the price. Im not a union person, never had been, but if this is the way this company is going to treat its employees, I will be calling the local Teamsters so as they can make their presence and maybe the company will on its own, change their ways, before they are giving substantial raises each and every year.
Report Post »autumnsmommie
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:06pmWow, I guess these morons did not look at the regulations pass onto the banks. I signed 4 petitions at my bank against the new regulations. Oh, I forgot they were part of the bill in the first place. You will never create jobs with masive spending and regulatons. “Top down, bottom up, inside out” Van Jones. I guess they are trying to follow those words.
Maybe they should look at their leader instead. My inlaws are big Obama Supportors and Union Workers. They Been Traveling the country looking for work for the past 18 months. My father in law decided to take early retirement because he could not find work. My mother in law has a job until June. She has a job for 6 months. Then she has to look for a new one. They believe it is all the conservatives causing the problem not the unions and the regulations being passed on to the businesses that create jobs.
Oh I forgot to mention they had a job out here but decided to volunteerally lay themselves off back in 09 just after the unemployment was extended. Sounds a lot like cloward and piven. Collapse the system. They do not care they get their money anyway they can. Make me sad.
My husband and I take a lot of grief for being Christians, Conservatives and not believing the lies the Left media spews out every time we talk to them. They will not wake up and refuse to believe that their union leaders are causing the jobless in this country. I call my father inlaw Top Dollar Because Top Dollar Trying getting us to become union workers. He said” I make $96 an hour doing electrical work through the union.” Yeah that is why there is no work for you. You get paid outragious pay for work that I would not pay for as a bussiness owner. Which I am. Uhhmmm…I can not figure out why they can not get work?!
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:03pmthis is why the 2nd ammendment is the most important
Report Post »only citizen gun rights keep these groups from pushing their way into control of the government
they don’t respect due process or civil rights
read the union websites
they are for violent revolution,…
they don’t have a problem being involved in a commie plot to overthrow the government no matter who is in charge
Unions should be outlawed and the leadership rounded up and tried for treason
the good news is that now we all know and can prepare
encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:09pmAnother Tea-******, taking up arms to protect his corporate masters, how quaint.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:23pmAnother ********* seeking to protect his corporate masters.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:07pmReally, another tea ****** supporting violent rhetoric to support their corporate masters against their fellow americans.
Report Post »Just Say NoBama
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:02pmTop down, bottom up, inside out….
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:05pmWow you learned how to parrot the paranoid ranting of the dry-drunk Beck.
DMcPher316
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:20pmEincnom….have you read up on the tactics of the progressives or are you just quoting Oberman? I tell you what I tell lots of folks..read some of the books and look at what is happening and tell me if you are satisfied with what you see. Do you wonder/worry about more government control or are you all for it? read history on that note and you will see that the most vocal of the “usefull idiots” are always the first to go once socialist take power. How is it that so amny of you people on this site can’t/won’t/don’t understand history. Fine..I guess we’ll see what kind of fertilizer you will make
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:34pm@DMcPher316
I have read many books, I do know that Beck is either willfully misleading his viewers or just doesn’t understand what he is reading. Most of Becks’s sources are authors whose work is discredited, they are authors that mimic the paranoid rantings of Alex Jones and other conspircy theorists.
I challenge any beckerhead here to get away from Beck’s reading list and read other books on the subject, written by leading, respected academics in that field. I challenge you to read the critism from the right and left of the authors that Beck looks to for guidance.
Report Post »chuck
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:03pmENC – i challenge you to refute the writings, video and audios of George Soros, Vann Jones, Francis Fox Piven, Richard Trumpka and others, Do you refute the history of the Wiemar Repuplic, Mao and Stalin, Pol Pot and others? I rest my case. Beck brings us facts, backed by any number of social media, radio, TV, interviews, written media, and the rest…you are a loon!
Report Post »chuck
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:12pmAnd NO I have had a good education, didn’t need Beck to know what I know, he has educated me on some things, sure, and I always look them up myself, to double check, just like anything else I hear or read. I am no bobble head for Beck, nor any other talking head, or any single source. I think for myself, thanks.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:24pm@Chuck,
Beck brings a twisted version of history. Most of his special on Soros has been bebunked. The rest is nothing more the the spin and rhetoric of a crazed man attempting to fit square pegs into round holes. The debate is not about the facts of history, the dabate is how Beck has twisted does facts to falsely tar and feather his oppenents.
Cleon Skousen, who Beck looks to for guidance, is a prime example. His writings are extreme mormon views, not shared with members of that faith let alone the rest of the nation. His writings have been attacked by both the right and left. He is the closest thing America has to the taleban, with the merging of religon and government. My challenge is the read William F. Buckley and other critical of Skousen and the John Birch Society, where most of Beck’s ideas orginiate from.
Report Post »o2bme
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:37pmENC – Nothing has been debunked regarding Sorros or Francis Fox Piven. Prove it. You can‘t debunk something that comes out of the person’s own mouth or from their own writings.. That is fact. Do you even listen to what Sorros even says? I mean really listen? The facts speak for themselves, again, directly from their own mouths or writings. You say the debate isn’t about the facts of history? Are you kidding me? Explain yourself, IN SPECIFICS, how Glenn has twisted history.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:17pm@o2bme
The Beck special on Soros has been debunked, the facts were highly edited statements, removed of any context. GO back to the sources, Glenn Beck did a hit piece, he lied to his audience knowing htat they would no check the sources and facts for themselves. Two of the regimes that Beck attacks Soros for bringing down, were brutal communist regimes, in Poland and Czech. Soros aided Reagan in collapsing the Iron Curtain. Beck’s “research” comes form one book, a discredited book “Shadow Party.”
I dare you to review the debunking Media Matters and other did regarding Beck’s program, tell me how is presenting a twisted version of history and who is standing with the facts.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:15pmMedia Matters???? You are kidding right? If there is one organization that is totally unbelievable it would be Media Matters. I believe they are partially financed by Soros are they not? Before you even attempt it here are some hard FACTS. “In an email to CNS regarding MMFA’s financial backers, spokeswoman Sally Aman wrote: “In response to your query regarding donor funding Media Matters for America has never received funding directly from George Soros.” Aman acknowledged support from MoveOn.org and the New Democrat Network.
She also named as a donor Soros’s friend Peter Lewis, the insurance tycoon who founded Progressive Corporation. Soros and Lewis were the top two donors to anti-Bush “527” political pressure groups during the 2004 election campaign.”
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:49pm@Blackhawk1
Yes, Media Matters. Why cause if Beck is speaking the truth than it would become apparent by the how his sharpest critics counter him. The truth is, Beck is being dishonest. The truth is that when you do deeper research it is apparent that Beck is presenting a highly edited version of the truth, to he editing out the context, and like Frankenstein, reassembling the different parts to create a monster.
As I said, I am challenging you to defend Beck’s dishonest retelling of the facts. He leaves out the facts that the regimes he blames Soros for overthrowing were brutual communist regimes. The presents edited down interviews that fit his narrative, regardless of the truth. Escape the echo chamber and I dare you to stand up for Beck’s twisted, dishonest version of the truth and history.
Report Post »Paul Thompson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:01pmThere was a documentary about MOTT’s, they make apple juice. The management wanted to reduce the labor’s wages. The labor representative brought up the fact that the CEO made 5 million plus a year.
Management called that a ‘red herring’. There were 300 hundred workers in the dispute, the difference in their wages was about 2 million per year. I’m not a leftist, but somebody tell me how one man isn’t worth 20 per hr and another is worth 5 million per year.
It’s balance we need, not this loggerheaded, “my side is right all the time.”
chuck
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:09pmUmmmm, without the “owner”, there would be no jobs, am I correct? take an idea and run with it, you deserve to be rewarded, what is the cap on free market enterprise pay? nuff said…
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:11pmNow you are begining to see the need for unions. Could one individual worker protested the gross imbalance in wages, when the workers making the least are demanded to give up the most.
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:11pmThe problem is that the unions want redistributative communism
Report Post »They should work hard, get an education and become president of the company if they don’t like working for union wages with lucritive benefits and cushy retirements.
They are creating Kaos and undermining the economy for the rest of us
how are we supposed to compete globally if the unions force our companies to be unprofitable?
do you think the chinese will unionize?
use your head.
work your way up or get educated and get a better job
chuck
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:13pmGrant you this, how much could this “owner” shared via a bonus? to charity? We do not know those facts…but if I made that much, I’d put $1M back to my employees, based on tenure and productivity, after all they helped make you successful, dammit!
Report Post »Paul Thompson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:17pmSeveral decades ago, in the coal mines the ‘owners’ would save the mules in a disaster before the men. Mules were harder to replace. IMO it is more that the greed has become global. I was talking to this one union rep, he was an idiot IMO, they don‘t understand that unless they are going to ’demand’ wages and working conditions on a global scale, there is no way America can compete and survive.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:19pmxcuse me? The owners and the management get what they want..If they dont want to work for twenty bucks an hour they can eat dirt! They dont have to work there, they can either work at a better paying company or create their own business! The Union mentality has sucked your brain!!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:22pmFirst the CEO is NOT THE OWNER. A ceo is the cheif executive, the owners are the share holders. His 5 Mil is his salary. Is your argument, does that are siding with their corporate masters, that any one individuals work is worth 5 Mil a year, at a time when those that actual do do the labor need to produce a product are being forced to take a pay cut?
@fertlmind this has nothing to do with Beck’s definition of socialism, your rhetoric mimics that of the disgraced John Birch Society. Are you still looking for reds in the military and under everyone’s beds?
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:23pmIt sounds warm and fuzzy to fire the CEO and keep a hundred union guys, but it‘s not necessarily the right thing for the company and it’s thousands of other workers. All cases are different of course, but you‘d need to discuss each scenario on it’s merits and not in general terms of “big bad executive make lots of money bad, poor union chumps good”.
Businesses are not in business to make sure everyone in the local community has a good paying job. When examining bargaining disputes you must be able to seperate the emotional idea that businesses are “job providers” from the rational fact that businesses exist to make money.
Report Post »Paul Thompson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:29pmDustyLuv – Do you endorse child labor? I’m sure we could get kids to work for less than their parents.
Report Post »chuck
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:33pmOne can also DEMAND themselves out of a job, by raising the wage and pension contributions, the Union becomes self defeating. We now find ourselves priced out of the labor market?
Report Post »Unions had their day, maybe still do, but legislation has now made them somewhat irrelevant, labor laws are rampant OSHA, etc…
And indeed, greed is corruptive, and only causes more misery on all sides. But isn’t really boiling down to values, frugality, morality and charity? The USA is losing our values, and is a nation in decline because of it? Gotta have the latest gizzmo, gotta make the better widget, but that is what makes the world go round these days, materialism. Without consumer spending, based on service economy jobs, we are going to collapse. Not even mentioning the US DEBT, soveriegn default, losing dollar as world reserve status, and housing/commercial props in a depression, U6 figures approaching 23%, jobs being lost hourly. usdebtclock.org…look for yourselves. Prepare for a meltdown mid-2011, IMO.
Paul Thompson
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:36pmRowgue – The Unions caged a real beast. Do you know what life was like before unions? My argument isn’t about firing management, it is that we are a global economic system and we can not compete against slave labor. IMO there needs to be duties on imports prorated with living and working standards for all.
Report Post »chuck
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:48pmhow about the Chinese, Indians and all slave labor countries pay a real wage, and our nation respond by taking less – never going to work! China has no intention of either revaluing the Yuan, or increasing pay scales, just as much as the USA, is devaluing the dollar to pay off the debt cheaper, and lowering pay scales. Nah, this economic chess game combined with a game of chicken is too complex for one blog…
Report Post »chuck
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:52pmCEO can be an “owner”, and there are far many more of them, than not. Depends on if you are publicly or privately held company. Public held CEO’s do answer to the shareholders. And if the CEO makes the company $1 BILLION in revenues, and huge profits, due to his guidance, takes a lot to run a company.
Report Post »wise grandma
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:10pmThat is why people start companies so they can make more than when they were a worker other wise why start a business. When you invest your money you expect a profit. Even a large profit will do.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:25pm@Blackhawk1
Yes, Media Matters. Why cause if Beck is speaking the truth than it would become apparent by the how his sharpest critics counter him. The truth is, Beck is being dishonest. The truth is that when you do deeper research it is apparent that Beck is presenting a highly edited version of the truth, to he editing out the context, and like Frankenstein, reassembling the different parts to create a monster.
As I said, I am challenging you to defend Beck’s dishonest retelling of the facts. He leaves out the facts that the regimes he blames Soros for overthrowing were brutual communist regimes. The presents edited down interviews that fit his narrative, regardless of the truth.
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:34pmNo man is worth more than another? That statement is a lie right off the bat. Why should one man make 5 million and the other $50,000? It’s called capitalism, and everyone in a capitalistic society has the SAME opportunity to fortune- you just need the cajones to risk every dollar you have in a business venture.
Report Post »If I follow your logic to its natural conclusion then on years that the CEO makes nothing the workers should work for free too. If the CEO goes bankrupt, then the workers should go bankrupt too. I find it convenient that you use Mott’s as your example, when in fact, most businesses never make it to these heights. Most business owners today are starving. Most owners today pay their workers and get nothing for themselves.
encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:13pm@RN MOM
Its not capitalism, the CEO is not sharing the risk. The CEO is receiving a bonus for cutting the wages of the workers. The CEO is not facing a cut in wages, while the workers who can not afford it are.
If its not astro-turf for corporate interests, than why does the tea party puts the needs of the banks and the corporation ahead of the their fellow american workers, Why protect the ones that created the crisis, that are shipping the jobs overseas, instead of your neighbor.
Report Post »taxedenuf
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:01pmJust as with the communist of all nations, a riot is just a normal part of life. Every time you turn around you have a riot going on somewhere involving communists and students. Now it is here because communist unions have bought their democrat politicans, and the people have overthrown those democrat politicians leaving the commies and students nothing else to do except riot.
Report Post »clinicalminded
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:58pmHey mine! That’s mine! My Job! My Money! My Truck! Tommy truck! The mentality and language of a 2 year old mixed with adults. Can you tell the difference? Neither can I.
Report Post »The Bees
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:58pmSadly the Union thugs are using intimidation again as their means of further destroying our Country!
Shame on you cowardly vermin. Try that with me and see who winds up stunned and surprised!
Report Post »mojo1419
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:58pmAh..the new BROWN SHIRTS
I wonder what their Union is doing to help them get jobs? I wonder how much cash the Union has.
What a bunch of wussess…maybe they should get new careers instead of leaching off unemployment every year for their entire lives?
Nothing like being ignorant and told to march by your organizer and behave like a criminal!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:35pmThe new brown shirts, and a new “night of long knives” shall be coming right behind it.
Report Post »JohnAdams4Prez
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:55pmAnyone else find it interesting that this is being reported by huffpoo as if they are a news organization?
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:06pmHuffpo helped organize the damn thing lol. It’s hilarious how they pretend as if they are simply reporting on it as a bystander simply stating what they witnessed.
Report Post »steverocknroll
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:53pmThey create the crisis, then are there to report on it! Nothing like making your own news! They’re desperate to appear to be a legitimate news organization, but you only need to spend a minute listening to Arianna Huffpoo herself to know how they‘ll ’report’.
Report Post »MJDalton
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:54pmwhy did they protest this meeting? the banks don’t create the jobs.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:02pmThey only did what their commie leadership told them to do.
Report Post »Notorrius
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:53pmWell the unions put the steel mills out of business, guess there going for the rest of the business.
This is outrageous and these goons need to be arrested and tried for threats. Guess the unions didn’t have any jobs that day so they sent in the goons so they could make a days pay. SAD
Report Post »encinom
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:04pmNothing like Tea-Baggers protecting their corporate masters.
Report Post »Disabledvet
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:01pmThey also put GM plants on the closed list, and almost put them completely out of business.
Report Post »bleuze
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 3:36pmWhy buy a GM car. Let the government and unions buy them. Afterall, they stole the bond money from private citezens and used tax money to fill their pockets.
Report Post »Nothing will happen to the unions. If you don’t believe this, ask yourself what happened to SEIU members who attacked a protester in St Louis. That’s right, nothing!
7.62AirMailComeGetIt
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:52pm“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
- Ronald Reagan
Govt is
Pushing nanny state
Over pushing gun laws
Re starting NAFTA- which is the North American Union= No USA No More CONSTITUTION No Freedoms
Attacking FREE SPEECH
Arresting People and keeping them for as long as they want for NO REASON
EPA does what ever they want shut you down -follow no rules
TSA- can keep naked pics of not just you your children, you one of their hands down you pants, sons or daughters, JUST FEELIN AROUND
Police beating people and still having jobs
Teachers molesting students and paid to sit in a rubber room and read or get on the internet
Teachers assault 7-8 year old children and keep their job
Forcing obamacare down your throat as they admitted is a new TAX payable to the I R S
Re-writing history right in front of your eyes, doubt me go read the new version of TOM SAWYER, or HUCK FINN
Tell me which one is not happening???
TIME TO WAKE UP AND TAKE A STAND—- For CONSTITUTION and COUNTRY
I ask all TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS to click this link and see how they plan to destroy our GREAT NATION. you know where i stand. View Politicians in the house and senate rex 84 and the terrorism talked about 25 yrs ago.
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you make the other bas tard die for his.”
- Gen. George S. Patton
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Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.”
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Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:35pmI have always loved the quotes of Patton and Franklin; Reagan is also dead on in the other saying as well “Government is not the solution to the problem; Government is the problem.”
Report Post »WBOB
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:51pmthe beginnings of what’s happening in Europe.
Report Post »Kaen
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:51pmThe ONLY new legislation that could possibly be passed by our government would be legislation that outlaws unions…they really need to go…
Report Post »bankerpapaw
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:04pmKaen, I agree 100%. It can’t happen soon enough for me. The unions are nothing but a bunch of
Report Post »thugs.
DMcPher316
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:10pmwhile we can’t do away with unions, we can make sure that this card check crap is killed, it’s someplace the government does not need to go in the first place. Things like that should be left to the workers and the company…period. Also, I think we need regulation that says if you are paid with taxpayer dollars, than you cna’ NOT be in a union. This is the problem even at the local level, the unions get politicians to write up stupid contracts and we the taxpayer, wind up paying thier pensions, crap on that let them use investmetns and 401K and thing WE have to use, That goes doe congress too…no more platinum parachutes
Report Post »what4
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:28pmI would do back-flips if it happens! Union=commies!
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:32pmYes we can do away with unions. Our economy is doomed if we don’t. What were the two most unionized industries in the United States? That’s right, steel and auto assembly plants. What are the two most failed industries in the United States?
Unions literally bankrupted the steel industry. They kept pushing, way beyond fair wages, until the industry was literally paying more to produce it’s product than it could sell it for. Then the entire industry simply dissapeared. No jobs for anyone no matter how much they protest. The same has been happening with the auto industry. The government keeps bailing it out to keep up the appearance that it’s not a failing industry, but they aren’t fooling anyone. The auto industry in the united states will suffer the same fate as the steel industry. And so will every other industry that doesn’t rid itself of the plague of unions.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:41pmThese problems are not caused by the unions. The problems are caused by the government, allowing unions to initiate intimidation, force and violence against employers. Outlawing unions would be as much an affront to individual freedom as the special privileges the government confers on unions. See the “Automobile Industry Fiasco” click on the following link: http://commonsense21c.com/files/CE-12-14-08-2.pdf
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:50pmUnions are okay at the local level, doing what they were supposed to do, collective bargain for the workers with the management. The problems began when the unions started taking mafia money to fund their pensions and strikes. The mafia turned them into regional unions and state unions and then when the mafia found out that there was more money in ripping off the pension funds then there was in crime, they took the unions national and became “legitimate” criminals just like most of the politicians and CEO’s they were dealing with.
Only thing is…the unions were a lot better at the game than the CEO’s and politicians and now those two are both beholden to the unions to remain in power. Hence our current state of affairs at all levels of government, union pensions are driving companies like GM, states like CA, and the Fed into bankruptcy.
Report Post »Flannery
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:54pm@ROWGUE – The largest unions are public sector. The most unionized “industry” is government. Time to end government unions and much will improve.
Report Post »SearchForTruth
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:20pmYes! Government unions MUST be OUTLAWED.
And you want to talk about TERM LIMITS. Maybe ALL government sector jobs should have term limits, not just congress.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 8:54pmIsn’t it odd that UAW owned GM just announced a very large investment in a new assembly plant……………..in Mexico. I’m sure they had the welfare of their American union brothers in mind when they made this decision. I’ll bet the Obama administration is real pleased with how our bail-out money helped out their loyal UAW supporters.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:48pmIt’s started! Elitist soon to be dragged into the streets by the Unions, just as I predicted!
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:54pmI pray that all those idiots are put in jail. And I’m not talking about the bankers!!!
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:00pm@Dusty
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click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:01pmDusty, not taking anything away from you, but many of us knew this was coming. Let’s see the left blame this on us.
Report Post »chuck
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:05pmUnion thugs, here is the meat of the revolution, Vann Jones and Fox Piven are calling on, it seems this may be the beginning of the end my friends. Good luck and God’s speed to all.
Report Post »EgoBrain
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:07pmYes, it has started. Or is getting bolder.
Report Post »I hope they all spend some ugly time in jail. Every one of them. Will they?
solaveritas
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:10pmFirst: “You can’t do a right thing, a wrong way.” Violence is not the way to change the situation.
Second: Lest you feel sympathetic to the bankers, watch the documentary movie “The Inside Job”.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:11pmThis is where the right to bear arms comes into play. They would not have stormed anything if the group they attacked were armed.
Report Post »Moocephus
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:14pmThe protestor were in the wrong to think that the lifestyles the unions have afforded them were sustainable. The bankers were in the wrong for taking OUR tax moneys and not putting them towards new loans but instead shoring up their own investments. There is no hard right or left lean in this situation.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:15pmSure!! The solution is to let the Unions and the Elitists fight it out and kill each other off. Good riddance…Then We the People will restore the Republic and The Constitution. Most of all we can restore the freedoms that have been stolen from us since the late 1800s…I believe there will be a new monetary system that will be developed through the black market that is value based on Gold and Silver (better get ya some)
No Welafre, no Government assistance will make for some interesting times when it is first employed because the Government is broke. The teat suckers will riot and the beginning of the end of this stupid Government will be at hand by the hands of the welfare recipients, Unions and desperate people…Yes, there will be a fight for the direction the Nation should go, but I truly believe that common sense will prevail one day soon after the collapse…
I do hope we are prepared for a Chinese invasion though….sigh. My guns alone are not big enough…
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:15pmI was just about to post that… its starting
Unions here will soon be identical to those in Europe I think within the year we will see violence on US streets. If I am wrong then it will definitely be here in ‘12!
Who are the ones organizing these events? Thats your target America find out who is putting events like this together and who is behind them.
Unions are a threat to the US they have played a hand in destroying industry and now have the audacity to say “they took our jobs!!”
Stop playing their game, take the gloves off and hit them hard http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »rubintheartist
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:17pmAs the left destroys jobs and our dollar they now turn against the very people that got them elected. That can only mean that they believe they are now in total control of America. That’s a laugh. The new animated web movie, “A Not Too Grimm Fairy Tale” is all about the evil of progressive lies and how thier overthrown and put in jail in the nation of Hairmerica. You will laugh. You will feel better for watching it. Watch here: http://www.marcrubin.com/Hairmerica.ivnu
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:20pmCorruption is the enemy and these class warfare union stooges fall into their trap. the “elite” Progressives engineered the collapse, get rich off of others’ misery while the lemmings go hat in hand begging for crumbs.
This web movie explains the Progressive-mafioso-thug infiltration of our institutions and culture. Most everyone in America suffers from some of the effects of nearly 100 years of brainwashing. http://www.marcrubin.com/dada.ivnu (watch part 2 first)
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:22pmOnce again UNION THUGS TRESPASS and break laws. I bet they don’t go to jail or even get a repremand. The left will again blame the right for this as they always do.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:24pmHere we go, the top down and bottom up chaos is beginning; just as Beck has shown would be part of their game plan. Create a solution to the problem, and then make the problem happen. I pray the nation will hold itself togeather during the storm at hand, and we can restore her to the land she is meant to be of freedom and a true republic.
DashRipRock
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:27pmI think these union thugs would have made a better impact if they had all been wearing red thongs.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:32pmThese union thugs made a mistake , they should’ve gone to The White House instead .
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:34pmUNION THUGS .. what a surprise….. Not! I hope they were arrested for more than just “tresspassing”
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:35pmRobertCA
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:32pm
These union thugs made a mistake , they should’ve gone to The White House instead .
Sounds like they were more likely SENT FROM the WH.
Rational Man
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:47pmDusty = Doofus = Self proclaimed oracle = wrong = silly
Don’t give up your day job Luvy.
Marcobob69
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:52pmRemember what happened in Greece? Well get ready, ’cause it’s coming to a shore near you!!! “Top down, bottom up, and inside-out…..with heart”, not my words, but the words of Van Jones, communist community organizer and activist. If you say this to just about any liberal, they won’t have a clue as to what you are referring. But, say this to a progressive and their eyes light up like a Volkswagen!!! WAKE UP, AMERICA! The civil unrest is getting ready to start!!! They have to start soon so Obama can declare “Martial Law” before the next presidential campaign is kicked-off!!! Be ready!!!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:56pmMaybe get yourself a case of Slim Jims and crawl back into your basement, stroke one of your guns and look at one of your soldier of fortune mags…….You will survive because, you are the “Oracle”!!
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:10pmThis is nothing new, Dustyluv.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:14pmInstead of protesting the idiot bankers who received the bailout money why aren’t you protesting Obama who was dumb enough to give these idiots even more money for their mistakes!
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:17pmThomas Jefferson said in 1802:
Report Post »“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by
inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will
grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property -
until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.”
So it Congress. Too bad they didn’t go over there and give them a piece of their minds about jobs and this current regimes blocking as many as they can. DRONES
just the facts
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:18pmAgreed. The problems are on the doorstep. The union workers will want a return on their money and can cause havoc. Yet, I do not think the real working men and women of the union force get it. They have been used, lied to, blamed, and now soon will be disenfranchised. Their point of “where are the jobs” is legitimate. I personally would like that question answered by the upper echelon. I am not a union person and would prefer to not have them in the U.S.; (they become more than they were to be); but with that said, many of us knew several years back that this time would come. The upper echelon
is in trouble and there really isn‘t any way out of it except to blame the ’other’ guy.
The union baby boomers are going to be hit hard. The are just now starting to retire. The union leadership will need to (a): raise the dues to compensate; (b): enlist more people into the union and raise the dues which will ultimately do nothing but bury those do enlist; (c): do nothing and let the chips fall where they may. barry sold our country and borrowed us into our grandkids bank accounts. The ones that will pay the price, the people of the United States.
I hope the voters of barry and his kind, (progressive) see the problems that are arising. We as a country are in the beginning of being hurt, we will be hurt, and hard times have not reached us yet.
“”Freedom isn’t free”" is such a true statement. The answer — purge the progressives from their positions and never ever forget where they were leading us.
Report Post »101
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:18pm.
Where are the jobs $$$ ? Sitting home on a couch being paid their Union pensions!
Unions are soon to be a thing of the past, to many Chiefs not enough Indians!
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:31pmIt is called tresspassing not a protest.
Report Post »GEW
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:42pm…and so we are told not to react to these thugs while they take to the streets and destroy our way of life. The Unions need to go, they will destroy the very life they think they are protesting about. They will bring us all into a hell unimaginable for not only the USA but the world.
When will these Unions understand that they are only being used to bring about change that I bet most of the union members would not and will not be happy with—stop and realize what the heck you Union peps are doing….
Report Post »yintercept
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:54pmIf the union thugs had a clue, they’d be violently breaking into the meetings of the AFL-CIO as the unions themselves are the biggest job killers on the planet.
Report Post »JCoolman
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:55pmHey Dusty,
Did Cass Sunstein send you here? Remember…strength through peace. With all that the unions have planned, they will be seen for what they are and ultimately rejected by the American people. The unions are their own worst enemy. And the funny part is…THEY KNOW IT. Have Faith that strength comes through peace.
Report Post »canuck44
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:31pmThey needed to take a couple of guard dogs to the meeting…
What is brown and black and looks good on a Union thug….a doberman pinscher or a German Shepherd.
Report Post »jamesctheman
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:27pmHere comes the tidal wave. Boom goes the dynamite or however you want to say it. How long will they provoke before their throwing molitove cocktails at police in the streets? What is supposed to be BO’s strategy when the people who backed him are the people who are going to be the ones the military is shooting in the streets. It’s going to be a sad day when that happens.
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:39pmITS TIME FOR ANTI OBAMA GROUPS TO BARGE INTO UNION OFFICES.
Oh, we do not have any Anti-Obama groups, they have been arrested and destroyed. When will State Governors begin organizing malitias to defend the States against Obama’s Domestic Military Force?
Report Post »hickoryrat
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:57pm“who is john galt?”
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:17pmHey Rationalman…Need to stop thinking rationally and know what’s in store. When it all melts down come on over…I will show you my ammo…dummy
Report Post »dominke
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:05pmJail time for those Obama’s supporters. This shows who are the violent people in our society,liberal democratic party and its union thugs. Ass general eric holder will not prosecute until congress investigates.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:18pmI live in a right to work state. None the less, I joined a union when I got tired of finding tires slashed and windows broken on my car after work. When it came time to negotiate a new contract a union “Leader” flew down, told us to vote for the package the company was offering, then drove back to D.C. in his new Buick. When I got my twenty-five cent per hour raise he “negotiated” my take-home pay increased by forty cents a week. After two years of that kind of crap, I left the company and got an entry level position at a non-union company for half the pay. My union brothers told me I would be sorry because of the lower pay. With merit raises I earned, I was making $100 more a forty hour week in less than a year. I will never have another union job!!!
Report Post »STUBBYK
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:51pm“ Where are the jobs” ? That’s the question they should be asking their union bosses. They’re the ones who are holding everything up by backing all the leftists and spending millions of the workers dues to keep the progressives in office. Why don’t these people realize the bosses are only interested in keeping themselves in comfort while backing a socialist administration. I think it’s time they WAKE UP.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:46pmRemind me not to hire that security group. They should have shot the bastards.
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:37pmthey need to throw the union scum suckers in jail.. oh yeah they have that pig eric holder to protect them so they can break the law all they want
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:50pm@ hkyfan36, oh you want a solution? Just wait and one will appear before yours and everyone else’s eye. The “solution” is a comin’, and these ******* union idiots are gonna be dumbfounded in the People’s response, I guarentee you that!
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 12:24amwell one does have the right to protect themselves don’t they..?? time they start..
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 12:34am@INDEPENDANTVITREOL, center mass, brother, that’s what we were taught in the Marine Corpse, doubletap center mass and one to the head to be sure. And if you don’t believe that, then believe rule #2 in Zombieland, “Doubletap”. “In those moments where you’re not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don’t get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda… coulda… shoulda.”
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 12:36amAnd dammit, my bad, “Marine Corps”
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 12:42amI mean, they can organize and do this kinda thing in the cities, but the first time they roll into my tiny neck of the woods and unload off their bus, they are gonn be runnin’ for cover, and the cover they find is gonna be manned by my cousin armed with a shotgun and a mouth full of Copenhagen, and he’s gonna smile and say :Hey darlin’! whether you are a guy or a gal. And then he’s gonna shoot that infiltrator so full of holes that dental records may not be able to help, and when he is done shooting, he’s gonna spit, reload, and sight back in. Then spit again.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on January 20, 2011 at 12:51amAnd for anyone who took my last post as a “haha”, think again. This is where I grew up, on the fringe of “Deliverance” in West GA. This is FACT among these people and ALL people among the Southern States. If TSHTF, I PROMISE you the revolution will be bloody and pointed, and not a single ******* will remain, unless they spent the battle hiding somewhere to see how the outcome would roll. ALL the people I knew growing up were well skiiled in guns and outdoorsmanship. YOU WILL NOT BEAT THEM SO GIVE UP YOUR FIGHT AND PLEASE BE AMERICANS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! YOU WILL BE KILLED FOR A LIE!!!!!!
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