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Update: WI Mayor Gives Labor Council an Ultimatum After GOP Banned From Parade

Yesterday The Blaze reported on a county labor council president in Wisconsin who said he was banning Republican lawmakers from the city of Wausau’s Labor Day Parade, an event which the council sponsors. Now Wassau’s Mayor has shot down the ban, saying that because the city of Wausau pays for a portion of the parade’s costs including liability insurance, the event is required to be non-partisan.

In fact, Mayor Jim Tipple delivered an ultimatum to the local labor council via WSAW-TV:

The Mayor’s office released in a statement:

“The banning of a political party from participation at any event co-sponsored by the City is against public policy and not in the best interest of all the citizens of the City of Wausau. And therefore, we encourage the event organizer to invite all interested parties, or reimburse the city for other costs.”

All in all, Hot Air describes what this means in plain English:

The mayor of Wausau has responded with an ultimatum to the union board — reimburse the city for all costs or reinvite the Republicans.

[...]

I’m guessing that after blowing tens of millions of dollars on failed recall efforts, the unions won’t have a lot of cash to reimburse Wausau for its costs, and that Republicans will once again be invited to participate in the parade.

The President of the Marathon County Labor Council Randy Radtke, is upset GOP lawmakers supported the legislation signed by Republican Governor Scott Walker on issues Walker campaigned on in the 2010 gubernatorial election, where Walker won with 52% of the electorate.

According to WAOW-TV, Radtke says Labor Day is about honoring hard-working people and, in his opinion, “Republicans don’t represent those values.”

WSAW reports that department heads like Wausau‘s fire chief Gary Buchberger say they’ll still participate in the parade despite the controversy.

“We are an integral part of the community and we want to support these kinds of things we have in the past and we have every intention of trying to do so in the future,” Buchberger told WSAW.

The usually fun, family-orientated parade is set for 4:00p.m. September 5. Mayor Tipple told WSAW that he is confident the conflict will be resolved in a few days, but hopes there won’t be any protests on Labor Day.

(H/T: Hot Air)

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  • lynda1276
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:54pm

    behind political correctness- unions are ruining the country

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:00pm

      Actually, its the Tea-Party that is ruinning the country (at least the credit rating). Just another GOP tyrannt taking following the lead of Hitler, sorry I mean Walker.

      The Mayor is having a hissy fit cause he can not get a photo op.

       
    • becker88
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:02pm

      We need to watch out for these fools.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:11pm

      The state police and their AG should show up with 50-100 blank arrest warrants. Anyone tries to stop anyone else from excercising their constituional right for freedom of speech or right to assembly should be handed one and arrested for sedition on the spot and hauled off in handcuffs..

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    • Strait Talk Express
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:15pm

      Ha ha …”as interpreted by Hot Air!” … (the partisan group also known as Mischief Inc.)

      This is a tempest in a teapot, we established yesterday no one was “banned,” some thin skinned purists were not specifically invited and started whining. It’s a public event. Formal invitation is not required, it is actually not legal to shun anyone.

      This is funny

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:19pm

      Looks to me like they are not really succeeding here.
      Just shows how self-righteous and arrogant these Radke types are– to try and dictate how public money should be used–regardless of what the public may think. Wonder who they look to for inspiration?

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:20pm

      @The_Almighty_Creestof
      The first one should not be blank but have the name of the Mayor written across it. New York St. Pats parade has set the precedent, freedom to assemble, includes the freedom to exclude, especially the petty tyrannts of the Wisconsin GOP.

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    • pmacres
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:25pm

      uh hello 6% are union! hello 6% wtf why give them a voice,, oh i know because they pay the democrats for protection and they got stepped on!
      sometimes money doesnt do all the talking

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:30pm

      for the safety of the Public, they should cancel the parade, and just issue licenses to hold rallys in separate corners of the town. So, also… how is this going to playout come election days? let me guess, because the Unions and the democrats hate republicans, they want to cancel the GOP primary elections or the Caucus party? If your the Unions and the Libs, then do you NOT try and force the cancellation of the general elections? if the Polling looks like Obama will lose, are you going to go door to door with baseball bats.. or worse? This is getting real Ugly folks!!!! keep an eye on Wisconsin!!

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:33pm

      I wonder how the Obama admin will spin the unemployement numbers come next week!!!! I bet he blames it on the Hurricane, which occured because of the Libyan Uprising, which was the result of the earthquake last week, which all stemmed from the resignation of Steve Jobs!

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    • macpappy
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:34pm

      We need more States to take the same stand Walker and the TEA Party crowd have. Kick these union pukes out. Unions are socialist, communist, holier than thow, elitist. They have no place in a capitalist nation like this one.

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    • Jezcruzen
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:36pm

      ENCINOM, if you have as many as two neurons to rub together I would be surprised1

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    • WarriorPitbull
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:48pm

      As formerly a steel worker working along side union ‘worker’ but myself not being in the USWU, I’ll tell you now that I work FAR HARDER than any union do-nothing. They would take long breaks and come back late with their ‘I can do anything I want, including nothing’ attitude. Unions are for lazy assed, non-working, ‘gimme your money for nothing’ blowhards.

      This attempt by the unions to ban anyone is done solely to insult using the reason that ‘Labor day is for hard workers’. That level of mentality is on par with children and their tree-house clubs. No union worker ever busted their asses the way the non-union workers did in my personal experience.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:48pm

      macpappy
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:34pm
      We need more States to take the same stand Walker and the TEA Party crowd have. Kick these union pukes out. Unions are socialist, communist, holier than thow, elitist. They have no place in a capitalist nation like this one.
      ______________________________________

      I guess you are all for doing away with overtime pay, holidays and weekends. Don’t need healthcare and retirement benefits or work place safety. The Tea-Party is proving themselves to be nothing more than the usefull idiots of the power elite. DC insidres and lobbyists just pull your string and you say whatever talking points they have feed into your tiny little brains.

      Higher wages in union shops, the greatest era for the american worker was the 1950′s, largest percentage of the nation was middle class, also union membership peaked. Continue to parrot the lies of those that seek to surpress the rights of americans for a the almighty dollar.

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    • Jim in Houston
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:54pm

      encinom/moncine: Same little paid troll from Spooky Dude‘s Media Don’t Matter. So dumb, he/she/it could find his/her/its butt with both hands.

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    • Conservative Queen
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:02pm

      Eencinom – it really amazes me how much you DON’T think for yourself or take 2 seconds to really examine what you think. Do you even read the article before you reply? Yes, people have a right to assemble, but they don’t have the right to do it with Taxpayer money if they exclude a group of people from participating. That’s all the mayor is saying. If the union wishes to have the parade and make it partisan, then they can pay for it by themselves. Seriously, I don’t know why you keep posting on here. Every time you do you show how completely ignorant you are. All you do is regurgitate liberal talking points. You compared Walker to Hilter, as a dictator I assume, but what do you call the union leader who kicks the GOP out of a public event because he didn’t like what they did? The congresspeople are ELECTED officials who did what the people ELECTED them to do and the people seem pretty ok with it considering the results of the recall elections. Seriously, do yourself a favor, turn off MSNBC, MoveOn.org, and CNN, get out of your parent’s basement and get a job. You’ll see the world a whole lot differently.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:10pm

      @encinom

      You might want to brush up on your history. I realize you leftists aren‘t much into it unless it’s of the revisionist type, but you’ll soon realize Hitler was a socialist – National Socialism. Socialism thrives in certain circles on the left – not at all on the right. You might want to stick with what the term most accurately descriptive of conservatives – capitalists.

      All this means is you unlearned leftists really need to come up with an adjective that properly describes your hate for conservatives. You make yourself look like hillbillies when you tie the right in with Hitler. Is it THAT difficult to spend 20 minutes on research?

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    • LIBSALWAYSLIE
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:12pm

      encinom has never been right about anything, ever. Never prooved a point, ever. Naver made any meaningful contribution, ever. Typical Liberal.

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    • Uncurable wound
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:19pm

      Warning!Warning! The severe Troll alert service has issued a Troll alert.At 4:48 eastern time a small smelly troll was sighted moving from post to post.The troll enicom is extremely liberal and doesnt have a clue.If you spot this troll,watch out for her handbag…

      Dont worry troll season is coming,and there will be NO limit!

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    • MCGIRV
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:32pm

      These commie union thugs are over doing it!

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    • JesterMN
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:34pm

      Ah…what would life be like without the inane ramblings of ENCINOM? Actually I am quite glad you continue to make remarks like this. They just support all the other posters’ positions and prove how truly stupid the ultra-left is. So…keep up the good work. And remember, sometimes it is better to be thought stupid than to open your mouth (or type on a keyboard) and prove it.

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    • Equality_7-2521
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:42pm

      @encinom

      What don’t you take the time to explain to the rest of us morons how exactly the tea party is responsible for ruining the nations credit rating.

      What’s odd is that the tea party had a dramatic effect in Ohio when we swept the 2010 elections and got SB5 passed. Doing this got Ohio’s credit rating changed from “negative” to “stable”.

      http://www.bizjournals.com/mobile/dayton/news/2011/07/16/sp-upgrades-ohio-rating-warns-us-debt.html

      Anyway, please, show us your brilliance. What’ talking points do you have that you can substantiate (that big word means to “prove”) your claim?

      And when you sit there trying to come up with an answer and realize that you are only regurgitating what you heard on some pos “news” channel or lib blog site, you may need to start asking yourself some very serious questions.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:47pm

      @Strait Talk Express

      No, you lied about it yesterday. They were specifically banned.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:47pm

      What’s wring Encinom? Are you all butt hurt over losing so ridiculously bad in my state. To bad. The people have woken up and they have spoken. They told the liberals and unions, no more do I pay for your free handouts you bums. No more do we continue business as usual bankrupting the state. No more! Encinom you are a has been and the rest of your kind are finding that out now. Now run along and cry to someone who cares. Because quite honestly, we don’t.

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    • jblovesAmerica
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:48pm

      Balancing the Budget is such a bad thing?
      wake up before the train goes into the ravine.

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    • Montana Made
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:54pm

      pscully17-

      SILLY! You KNOW it was the TEA PARTY that caused the hurricane by holding the weather hostage!!

      But the hurricane HAS delayed Obama’s much anticipated crayon drawing on lined paper “jobs creation plan”. No mention of it since before Irene came along….

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    • Phoenixsoulfire
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:09pm

      @encinom really? really dude? I say both parts are the blame odumbo wouldn’t budge either remember that? or do you have solective memory? Unions are because they raise the cost of products forcing companies to move over seas so Unions are destroying Jobs lives and are just plane thugs, Wish you would just go away like 90% of the people on here. The other 10% are from your friends the huffy puffy post.

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    • quicker
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:26pm

      Encinom is just afraid that he she might have to get a real job.

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    • MHP
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:43pm

      Encinom has Crainial Rectomitis

      Means encinom has his head up his ass

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    • MHP
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:48pm

      Troll hunting licenses available

      NO LIMIT bag as many as you want

      Hunting hours are 24/7

      Scott Walker, Governor
      John Kasich, Governor
      Rick Scott, Governor
      Chris Christie, Governor
      Rick Perry, Governor

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    • koyettsu
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:51pm

      Hey ENCINOM the Nazi‘s didn’t believe they were doing wrong until it was all over and done. You can scream, act violent and pretend we are the bad guys all you want but in the end when your policies are shut off and people see how much better things are you will be labeled what you are. Anti-American!

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    • IMPrepared
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:12pm

      Just wa ’till we protest YOU, encinom!! Gutless worm…

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    • IMPrepared
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:15pm

      The Bn’t ave the stones to post my reply. Gutless…

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:22pm

      The hysterical part is that the unions lost millions of dollars trying to win the recall elections (and subvert the voters of Wisconsin) and they failed dismally. It doesn‘t even look like the Walker recall will go ahead they’re so beaten. And here’s the mayor Tipple hitting them where these goons will really feel it..in the bank account. It’s fun watching “progressivism” crumble before our eyes. Next..the schools get taken back from the hands of the hippie professors and leftist teachers.

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    • mils
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:22pm

      union fools.

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:23pm

      encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:00pm
      _____________________________________

      Delusional.

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    • bigpew
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:29pm

      Encinom- I have a non union Job I get overtime pay I have weekends off my pay is a livable wage (I do well). Union drove up pay no doubt, but also the cost of just about everything. Do you think that companies that were forced to accept unionization and had to pay the works more and cover their pensions did not pass on that cost? All of your reasoning for unions is misplaced and quite honestly not true. While the large mills and mining companies did have dismal working conditions back in the day most employers were fair and compassionate to their employees.

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    • Liberalismsamentaldisorder
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:38pm

      @Encinom

      You’re great! Keep posting, the perfect posterchild for the ignorant liberal that sees the world through some sort of a haze of self-importance.You are truly a legend in your own mind.

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    • booger71
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:56pm

      “We need to watch out for these fools.”
      —————————
      Like Encinomom

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    • kindling
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:56pm

      I would like to know who gave unions the power to decide who comes to any county sponsored events? This is what is wrong with this country. Small LOUD groups are getting all the attention and the majority of people just go along with the whackos. I say the Republicans should dominate the parade. No true American, (someone that loves the Constitution), wants to see the elected officials cower to the unions. That is why you were elected! Stand tall and put the unions back where they belong.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:02pm

      @ MACPAPPY; Ooooh! I love the way you talk, say it again. Unions should be banned in America.
      If they weren’t so mean and hateful, corrupt and thuggish I could almost tolerate them, but not like they act now. I wouldn’t let one of those hateful, mean spirited teachers in Wis. teach my kids. They don’t reflect any family values nor common sense.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:06pm

      Encinom- spoken like a true twit. Why don’t you crawl back into your ***** and breahte fresh air?

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    • Anadara
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:16pm

      Regrettably, Socialists and unintelligent lefties don’t realize that Tea Party Members are just regular Americans who are not a Socialist or a leftie. They don’t get it. Regular Americans just don’t like socialism.

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    • USAFFELPMAN
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:21pm

      ECINOM: Hitler was a product of the National Socialist Party which used the support Unions to elevate Hitler to a position of power. It appears Walker is more the anti-Hitler while the unions would be considered pro-Hitler in this case. Their payback for their support, forced integration into the National Socialist Party.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:38pm

      “Radtke says Labor Day is about honoring hard-working people and, in his opinion, “Republicans don’t represent those values.”

      Talk about myopia. Or is it propaganda. Me thinks republicans are the ones making the country work, and funding it as well. Of the 47% who pay no federal income tax, I think a very low percentage are republicans.

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:40pm

      Union stewardship is an Isdeology… give us more benfits, guarentee wages and pensions.. woe is the working man… MAth isnt negotiable… in the Public sector.. unions are devastating. TAx payer Dollars fund the government jobs… lets look at this eqaution: Government Job—> Tax Payer dollars —> Unions forced raises and benefits with Non-adjustable contracts, pensions for thos that retire/quit working —> forces higher Taxes —> forces reductions in services, —> forces more Fees for dropped services that were previously covered —> forces reduced standard of living and forces inflation see the cylce… it all ends up on the tax payers… how do you NOT see this? MATH doesnt LIE!!!!!

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    • Cavy from VA
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:17pm

      Encinom … you are the usual airhead troll … you believe in diversity in everything but thought! Dem nasty ole racist Republicans can finds der on parade! Dey dosen‘t knows a dang thing bouts no labor so’s dey don’t deserves to bes in no parades bout us laborin union members!!

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    • jimtrees
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:25pm

      Iworked for tree co. for 25 years. We had a few union guys come in and try to form a union, but after playing along with them for a few days they got the message. Never had a problem with overtime, had plenty of vacation days, and the best thing was, i had the right to keep all of my hard earned money. Not one red cent went to some fat slob trying to buy influence. The word lobor and union should not be used in the same sentence. It demeans all the good non union workers in America.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:25pm

      Its time to bust what Unions are left… before every city looks like Detroit ..
      Bust the Union’s and the Thugs that run them.. the time is now!

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    • Thomas
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:37pm

      Anyone want to buy stock in a new company called Progressive Soap Company? lol

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    • peapaw
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:24pm

      Someone standing up to the unions it is about time.

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:29pm

      well if it isn’t the forever moron encinom here to spout more bs lies and liberal progressive propaganda like a good little brain dead minion. Obahitlerstalinmao and the rest of the liberal progressive traitors in congress had TWO YEARS TO PASS THEIR OWN BUDGET BUT DID NOT. Hmm, so who is responsible for the credit rating? The libs and progressives shoved massive spending plans down the throats of AMERICANS. Whos responsible for the credit rating. If you are going to come to a blog spot encinom bring facts instead of propaganda.

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    • earthbonz
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 11:13pm

      Encinom, you’re so silly. You make me laugh.

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 11:39pm

      Ideologues like ENCINOM think that the TEA party consists of people who don’t work hard. They think because we want a balanced budget our credit rating has been harmed. Let’s face iti these people are communists. They will lie and lie and lie. The truth is unknown to them.

      It’s not rocket science to see spending by both parties has ruined our credit. Thank you Nancy and Harry. You bear a great part of the responsibility … No … You bear the blame.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:53am

      @encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:00pm
      Actually, its the Tea-Party that is ruinning the country (at least the credit rating). Just another GOP tyrannt taking following the lead of Hitler, sorry I mean Walker.

      The Mayor is having a hissy fit cause he can not get a photo op
      *****
      Let’s see, if I Max out my $X credit card then decide to get a $XX to pay it off, and the Credit Card Company only gives me an $X1/2x new card to repay it. My credit will be ruined by the Credit Card Company because they didn’t give me enough credit to last another year, (Or till My $Million Loan comes through.). Did I get that right?

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 1:04am

      @pscully17
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:33pm
      I wonder how the Obama admin will spin the unemployement numbers come next week!!!! I bet he blames it on the Hurricane, which occured because of the Libyan Uprising, which was the result of the earthquake last week, which all stemmed from the resignation of Steve Jobs
      ***
      Probably along that line but if it were you or I spinning wouldn’t we simply say, “NO steve JOBS= LOWER EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE, like I just said, ‘We have no jobs’!” !!!

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 1:22am

      @encinom
      re : Higher wages in union shops, the greatest era for the american worker was the 1950′s, largest percentage of the nation was middle class, also union membership peaked. Continue to parrot the lies of those that seek to surpress the rights of americans for a the almighty dollar
      ***
      There are reasons it peaked in the 50′s. By the 60′s employers had figured out that it pays to treat your workers well, so they don’t need a union. I got my first job away from the family farm in the early 70′s a little electrical supply plant, they were having employee problems at the time. (The gal who slept with the company president didn’t have to work!) Raised in a union family, when they began to organize I thought it’d help a lot. They won the election and dues began coming out immediately. [the only change seen for 6 months except now are negotiating committee didn't have to work either and when they came in to collect their paychecks told us they weren't allowed to talk about the negotiations.] When we joined we all made minimum wage and were told that dues would be 1 days pay. What came out of our paychecks was over a weeks pay. When I asked the Union Pres. about this he said, if you‘d been in a week before it’d been $20 cheaper, we did an assessment of our members the week before your vote and dues are the median of that. When I asked why they hadn‘t told us that at any of the meetings his reply was that we probably wouldn’t have voted them in. RIGHT ON!

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 1:36am

      @Strait Talk Express
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:15pm
      Ha ha …”as interpreted by Hot Air!” … (the partisan group also known as Mischief Inc.)
      ****
      Reality Check! Are you bragging about Chillary‘s bus tour or BO’s? I’ve heard all over the news today that BO actually flew from site to site, and had the buses flown in Transport planes, so that it’d look like he was getting out with the people! Should have been known as Con Job Express!
      The Secret Service says the buses weren’t a waste of money because he can use one and the Repub nominee the other for campaigning. (Better keep those transports ready for his, and I’d have the Repub one swept and reswept for bugs. (I mean camera’s and receivers, really!)

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    • toto
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 1:41am

      Enicom, if Congress had listen to the Tea Party, Cut, Cap, And Balance there would have been no downgrade. Standard and Poor even said as much!

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:17am

      re :MHP
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:48pm
      Troll hunting licenses available

      NO LIMIT bag as many as you want
      ***
      Whatta ya do with ‘em after ya bag ’em? Can‘t cook ’em, stuffed in the officed lobby they’d scare all the clients or paying customers away, and I think it’s illegal to make dog food out of them!
      I know! How do you RECYCLE a troll, and what do ya make out of them? 1) an ashtray [they're already the scarey message ] 2) a lamp [brightest they've ever been but use CFR's or they'll blow up on you.] 3) kitchen table [would they throw meat off?] 4) Seat covers for your new car [that won't go anywhere because you forgot to plug it in overnight]
      Anyone else wanna play?

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:25am

      @kindling
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:56pm
      I would like to know who gave unions the power to decide who comes to any county sponsored events? This is what is wrong with this country. Small LOUD groups are getting all the attention and the majority of people just go along with the whackos. I say the Republicans should dominate the parade. No true American, (someone that loves the Constitution), wants to see the elected officials cower to the unions. That is why you were elected! Stand tall and put the unions back where they belong
      ****
      At least if the TEA Party outnumbered them the parade route would be cleaner when they left than when they came. Sort of an anti-state house mess thing!

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:38am

      @encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:23pm
      @hifi74
      Funny thing is in 10 months Herr Walker has lost all support, save the brain dead tea-baggers and becker heads, plus lost two seats in the senate in a recall and will be out of a job in January
      ****
      Lost all support save for the school administrators who discovered the union insurance was ripping them off by overcharging, the taxpayers who discovered their property taxes aren’t going up because their schools now have a surplus, the voters who’ve overwhelminingly re-elected all but 2 of those they tried to recall, and the everyday parents who were disgusted with the example set by the unions and teachers who destroyed public property and illegally took sick days to protest, and the moral voters who saw such a wonderful difference between the lawmakers who ran away to Chicago rather than lose a vote and the Governor who did everything he could to get them back for the vote! Yep, the Kool-Aid Party voters are definitely voting against him, that’s what their union leaders told them to do!

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    • Servant Of YHVH
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:50am

      @encinom
      You make stupid lies to blame the Tea Party, the Republicans and the Constitution. Yet at the same time you seem to enjoy living in a country that allows traitors to this nation to live here in peace and spout the same sewage that they always spout on blog sites, especially conservative ones. I wouldn‘t be surprised if your parents wouldn’t have flushed the sewage down the toilet if they had known what was going to happen later on. You and your anti-American friends (if people like you actually have friends) are so two faced just by the fact that you continue to live in a place that you hate so much. I seriously doubt that you do but I wonder what church if any you go to. I wonder because what you say and do are absolutely inconsistent with any Godly principles or morals that God is. God also tells the churchs that if they have people in there that goes against Him that they MUST kick them out of the church. If the church doesn’t do that then God will remove His Presence from that church and it will cease to become a Godly church, not that it would matter to you. However, if I knew which church it was, I would know to avoid a spiritually dead church and I wouldn’t want to waste my time going there. I WOULD like to mention though that no matter how anti-Christian and anti-God and anti-American (you can protest all you want but your word claim itlaims but it wouldn’t do you are, I still have a Godly love since God directs us to love everyone.

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 6:03am

      Mayor, if you expect any trouble, give us some lead time and let us know, we would be glad to come up and help you out, and ask the police who they will side with, if not with us, warn them to stay out of the way, time to sweep this trash from your streets.

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    • Bowmaster
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:04am

      Encinom…
      Aren’t you the same slug who claims to have been on the gov dole and jobless for years by choice?
      What the Hell would you know about anything associated with working.
      You have already excluded yourself from throwing your two cents in, because it is OUR two cents you are throwing.
      Were you the pretty fat boy in blue holding the sign?
      When it starts, if you are not cowering under the bed in your mommys basement, it will end quickly for you.

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 8:33am

      Encinom I am going to give you the same advice I gave to someone yesterday. Get up from behind the computer there in your basement…..go over to the nearest pole….now bash your head against it as hard as you can. Do you hear that ringing? That is the sound of your brain being knocked into gear. You are welcome.

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    • juicebomb
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 8:51am

      encinom – you obviously dont know the mayor of this town. he turned down photo-ops, etc to not bring the spot light on him. I know him personally and he is a stand up guy. Wausau is a very lib town and for him to be elected mayor a lot of those “labor” guys must like him. This a blue collar town that is beginning to see the light – they are getting sick of the left. Go Tipple!

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    • lobster
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 9:16am

      Any chance this Radtke is related to the others from ACORN? Just checking…

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    • cosette
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 9:23am

      Blazers all,Why do you continue to feed the most blatant troll on this site? His filthy mouth, lack of knowledge of historical and current facts and inability to comprehend even the most basic concepts of civil discourse lead me to believe he is suffering a case of developmental arrest. YOU CANNOT REACH HIM. He is of such a twisted reality that even if a dismembered body were to be found in Obamas’ sock drawer he would excuse or deny it. Save your precious time.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 9:32am

      @ENCINOM

      Obama inherited a AAA USA and that “AAA downgrade” is OFFICIALLY filed under
      President Barack Obama.

      Good try..

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    • spirit of freedom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 10:15am

      @encinom,
      not a day goes by without you demonstrating that you are highly skilled in the Arts of Douchebaggery. nice job Commie, why dont you go and try to impose your morals and “values” on say….. Cuba! leave America alone before you get hurt. you my Red non friend are Dilusional.

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    • Wino
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 11:39am

      encinom,

      Regarding the TEA party ruining the credit rating.
      The TEA party did not force our government to spend trillions that we do not have.
      The TEA party did not force the Democratic controlled Senate not to pass a budget in almost 3 years.
      The TEA party did not force Pres. Obama to threaten to not pay our bills and default if he did not get his way.
      The TEA party did cause Washington politicians to face up to our growing national debt, otherwise it would have been business as usual. Another trillion or two added to our debt with every debt ceiling raise. Only the House Republicans, led by the TEA party, submitted a plan to stop our deficit spending and eventually pay off our debt. Neither the President nor the Democratic controlled Senate have a plan for paying off our debt. Their plan is to keep on spending, kick the can down the road and let our grandchildren deal with the pain.

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    • jeffile
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 12:06pm

      Be afraid, very afraid. Der union Fuerer might bring in the Brownshirt thugs (AKA SEIU members). The Democrats could care less about the will of the people or the working man. The people spoke and that should be that. Democrats want to distribute money of half the people to the other half keeping people on the government handout wagon.

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    • OneYearNewspaperMan
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:05pm

      Encinom, In regards to your reply to Lynda, with you comparing Gov. Walker to Hitler, it is amazing to me that after the tragic shooting of Rep. Giffords by a mentally ill person and President Obama calling for civil discussion, it is liberals like yourself that have continued and even increased the violent and radical dialogue that plagues our political environment today.

      Plus, you fail to understand the point of the story. The President of the Marathon County Labor Council Randy Radtke, a “liberal”, is the person discriminating against people with a different viewpoint, not the city mayor or Gov. Walker. So if anyone displayed poor behavior, it is the liberal in this situation.

      I thoughts liberals celebrated diversity and were open to all people and viewpoints. Yet, it is apparent every single day when reading the news that liberals are anything but tolerant of differing opinions.

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  • KangarooJack
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:54pm

    Keep your eyes on Detroit. When it happens-over 80% of the arson fires that happen will NOT be from rioters or activists. They will be started by the local neighborhoods to rid themselves of the blight of crackhouses and places where their children are raped on their way to school. At this time, local School Districts faced with State Appointed Managers to oversee their CONTINUALLY failing Districts are organizing to protest. Throw in legislation to make “School of Choice” a Statewide Law…all it’s gonna take is 3-4 days of no welfare and boom!

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:12pm

      With corruptness in the Unions, my question is: Do any of the members claim to be Christian? I would find it difficult to pay dues to a Union knowing they are working for all corrupt causes and to democrat candidates. How can you live with yourselves with no more conscience than this?

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    • cosette
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:11pm

      @ Perkins- Save your fingertips. I’ve long ago stopped feeding the encinomoron troll. His gutter lexicon is more than I can tolerate. I’ve also given up on J.C. A quite lengthy debate(?) with him had me reaching for the duct tape. He begs for facts and when given them, he completely ignores them! Let’s not forget the insults,“ ignorant” being the preferred and ever present among those hurled your way. In their perverted worldview, if you have a different opinion you deserve to be ridiculed and ostracized much like the union mob has decided to exclude people of a different political persuasion from a PUBLIC event! The closest I have come to having a civil debate on this site was with Thomasdaddy. But even though I believe he was of a superior intellect over most liberals, in that he kept on message, he did reduce his argument to the usual personal attacks and called me ignorant. I was disappointed, but not surprised.

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  • BREAKING NEWS
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:53pm

    I‘m a hardworker and I’m not in a stinking union. In fact my wages go to pay union workers health and pension costs. When are those parasitic %$^#^ going to carry their own water?

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:58pm

      When are you going to thank the uniuons for your healthcare, weekends and overtime? Thanks to the blood spilled by union brothers and sisters you enjoy higher pay and a safer working environment. Like a typical tea-****** you are nothing more than a greedy child only looking out for yourself with no care for society at large.

       
    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:10pm

      Breaking News……..To answer your question, when all the Democrats are voted out of Public Office!

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    • nomodimcrats
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:15pm

      The only way to ban unions will be the time honored way in November 2012 with your votes. I never knew the damage a president along with a bully regime could do til Obama.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:21pm

      I guess you were asleep during the 8 year reign of terror known as the W. years.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:30pm

      @ ENCINOMOM

      “You are nothing more than a greedy child only looking out for yourself with no care for society at large.”
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      That’s an accurate description of the typical, (but not all inclusive) union member. I used to be a union member and I saw plenty of exactly what you described in the rank and file.

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:32pm

      People need to stop demonizing unions: They ain’t perfect, but they sure as hell aren’t the mortal enemy these conservative pols are making them out to be. Do a little research people, turn off Fox News, and you may discover that unions DID NOT tank the economy, beat-up everyone in their path and/or feel-up your sister….It’s amazing how so many of you misinformed, naive folk are falling for this – YOU’RE MAKING YOUR CORPORATE OVERLORDS VERY HAPPY.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:42pm

      “looking out for yourself with no care for society at large.”
      ———————————————————
      Encinut
      I guess you have no concept of looking out for yourself. Self-reliance, self responsibility. We pay our own way, we pay our own bills. Will you buy me a car or pay my mortgage? How about dinner this week? No? There you go, then. We, who believe this stuff, are also, usually, the biggest givers of charity, too. We will give to those who truly need it.

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    • dejavu43
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:44pm

      encinom appears to have all of the pre-written answers, supplied, I’m sure, by her local union rep. Unions, at one time, had a useful place in the structure of this country. The movement was born in necessary violence, but has never figured out that the need for same is long past. Over the last 20-30 years, membership declined, union leaders demanded more power, more money, more benefits–more of everything–for a vocal but declining group.Throw in the government workers that have been unionized and you have the breeding ground for the ugliness seen in WI & MI. I have spent most of my life around union members and their biggest failing was believing all of the pure communism preached to them, not even recognizing it for what it is until too late. Their second biggest failing was in not doing their OWN homework, allowing the leadership to TELL them how to vote. The American worker will always need a union, but not in its present structure and using its present tactics. The blatant greed and power-mongering must be curtailed by the membership and until they do, that pitifully small pool of union workers will continue to shrink.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:45pm

      @JohnnyCarson
      Corporate Overlords? Where have I heard that, oh yeah, almost every union member I have heard uses that word. You also forgot to call us Hitlers.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:48pm

      @Johnnycarson
      Let me school you a little on Unions.
      They are communist/socialist organizations.
      Communist/socialist are against, not for, do not like, capitalism; the system under which we live.
      Unions help put this idiot we now have for a president in office. That is enough to hate them already.
      Unions have run all manufacturing out of the US, even the car companies.
      Cities and States are close to bankruptcy because of Union greed.
      Unions have done nothing good for this country…..ever. Anyone that gives unions credit for better wages, health care, and what not simply does not understand business.
      I am sorry you were or are union, if you leave now maybe your soul can be saved.

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    • TEIN
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:51pm

      Sure Johnny, I will remember that each time I look at a GM car…How the poor hard working Union leaders supported Demo politicians and made closed door deal with VP Biden to steal stock from stock holders and give it to the Union….Nothing against the working scrub, but the leaders are no different than Boss Mobs……..

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:54pm

      johnnycarson

      You need to turn ON Fox and find out what is really going on in this country. Unions took Billions in bailouts and now own majority shares in the very companies they bankrupted and are being propped up by Obama and taxpayer money. Unions protested like spoiled little kids when asked to pay for a portion of THEIR own Healthcare and Pensions. Unions had a place and time back in the 1940′s but have outlived their usefulness and need to be disbanded for the good of the country. Just look at Wisconsin’s budget now that Public Unions were neutered………….it’s balanced with a projected surplus!

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:56pm

      @MACPAPPY

      You make some bold claims, just like everyone else around here, but no one seems to be able to dig up any reasonable data that backs up those claims…I don’t entirely care if someone is pro or anti-union. What I care about is masses of people (such as yourself and others here) buying hook line and sinker the lies you’re being force fed.

      You guys just shake your fists in the air, call them ‘socialist organizations’ and pretend like the failure of our economy, loss of jobs, etc, doesn’t require ANY other examination, cause, well, the UNIONS DID IT!

      It’s just not the case. Back here in reality, intelligent, reasonable people see that the causes of recent calamities are far more complex and often have to do more with the powers in office caring less about the people than they do their lobbying industries/banks/big business/what have you keeping their pockets lined.

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:58pm

      ‘You need to turn ON Fox and find out what is really going on in this country’

      Dude, you just really embarrassed yourself there. I‘d laugh at you if it wasn’t so sad.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:13pm

      @ JohnnyCarson
      If you want me to explain the connection between Unions and the economic collapse, I can do that easy enough. You see it is not as complicated as you and yours would have us believe. Liberals always pull the “oh you are just stupid” gun when the talking points fail. We are not stupid, we just see you for what you are now.
      The connection is simple, Unions spent billions of dollars to put Obama in office on the promise that he would “Fundamentally Change America” . That’s right, you did that. Well, once elected the Fundamental Change started and we did not like it. We conservative Americans do not want “that” fundamental change in America. Your Union leaders are in the White house daily, so we know the unions are behind the destruction of the economy hand in hand with Obama. The share holders of GM were totally ripped off and the Union ended up with their shares. What was that crap!!
      So, don’t be a useful idiot for the unions, stand on your own two feet, and please stop depending on us to take care of you.

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    • Conservative Queen
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:15pm

      Encinom – I‘ve never worked for a union but I’ve enjoyed wonderful healthcare, my weekends, and overtime. My husband worked for a company for a while that was union and he would tell me stories how if there was a spill or something, if he tried to clean it up they would yell at him because “that was their overtime.” What were they doing at the time? Sitting on their a$$es doing nothing. Unions breed lazy, greedy workers. It all becomes about what they can get out of the company and not what they can do for the company THAT GIVES THEM THE FREAKING JOB!!!!! JFK would be horrified by this. The more union workers cost the company in healthcare, salary, and overtime, the more the goods and services cost the consumers. Also, the less people the company can hire. I work hard for my money and I don’t need some damn union boss trying in increase my wage so he can take a higher percentage of it every paycheck as union dues. It’s a scam and everybody knows it. Unions don’t care about the workers. It’s all about getting higher salaries so the union can collect more and more money in dues. Don’t believe me? Then answer me this – why are unions so willing to let workers be fired without any willingness to even consider reduced pay to save those union jobs??? Get back to me when you’ve checked your liberal talking points, Encinom. I know you can’t think of an answer on your own.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:18pm

      johnnycarson

      It’s your choice to stay uninformed if you want to. If you haven’t noticed by the number of replies calling B.S. on your postings you are the one being embarrassed here and everyone but the other uninformed liberals (like encinom) posting here are laughing at you. Maybe you should stay with posting your foolishness on Huffpo where the other zombies like you get your misinformation.

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    • HKS
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:18pm

      It’s amazing, so many libs here spouting that same old liberal by line. If you have heard one you have heard them all. They’re like, broken records and it doesn’t matter which one is talking. Yes the unions are responsible but their not alone, the government is just as guilty they helped them do it and added more of their own and yes Bush is guilty as well. That‘s what libs don’t understand about the tea party, they don’t care which party, quit the all crap and get it right. It just so happens that Democrats are the worst, but would have no problem hanging a Republican right beside him or her if they’re out of line.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:21pm

      Conservative Queen
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:15pm
      Encinom – I‘ve never worked for a union but I’ve enjoyed wonderful healthcare, my weekends, and overtime.
      ____________________________
      Thank the union members for those benefits. Prior to struggle for worker’s rights and benefits fought by the unions those benefits were reserved for the upper levels of management, the average worker did not enjoy such benefits as a 40hr week or retirement. It took te blood of the union members for you ungrateful tea-baggers to enjoy such benefits.

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:41pm

      @MACPAPPY

      Your response is full of holes:

      The economy didn’t suddenly nosedive the day Obama was elected. In fact, if you bothered to do ANY research whatsoever, you’d find that it is slowly inching back.

      Additionally, unemployment also did not suddenly nose dive the day Obama was elected. I’m not going to sit here and defend Obama as a president, but the notion that he and his union cronies are solely to blame is shockingly naive of you.

      @CONSERVATIVEQUEEN

      ‘Encinom – I‘ve never worked for a union but I’ve enjoyed wonderful healthcare, my weekends, and overtime.’

      How can you state this with a straight face as some sort of proof of the uselessness of unions…You are aware that the entire reason you were able to enjoy those benefits in the first place was because of unions, right? Open a book, use Google, whatever – even your conservative pals here (the educated ones) will concede that. Facts are facts.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:06pm

      @ Johnnycarson
      Ha! Inching back my butt. I build houses, hire people everyday, buy materials, and have hands on experience in the real world, and buddy it is not inching back. It is still in decline. Gas at near $4.00, unemployment near 10%, more and more Americans on food stamps, illegals taking jobs, black flash mobs in the streets, Dems out inciting riots across America.
      Yes, and all on Your guys watch. Hell, all this did start with him. I wish for the days of Bush when gas was 2.50, employment was not an issue, not flash mobs, no racial haterd, no thrid war. No Union
      riots as in WI
      Yeah, you guys are great at what you do, disrupt, disparrage, distroy jobs.
      Take your talking points and refresh them.

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    • Perkins
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:20pm

      @JohnnyCarson
      “Facts are facts” eh? Try these on for size. Since 1975, there have been 8,799 reports of union violence leading to 1,963 arrests and 258 convictions. Weird how much violence and how little justice there has been eh?
      http://www.nilrr.org/node/54
      Second, ok, so maybe unions gave us some benefits in the past… but… ships don‘t sail on yesterday’s wind. Just because they might have helped us in the past does not mean they cannot be harming us today.
      You seem like a reasonable person who would not be one of the violent union members, but do you really know who you are following? Having been on the other side of the table from some of your union leaders (and had friends with slashed tires/broken windows), if you are really a freedom loving peaceful person, you’ll want to stop following them, they are nasty pieces of humanity. Wolves in sheep’s clothing comes to mind.

      But then I’m obviously just a corporate shill, or one of the evil capitalists who sits in a smoke filled room in a pinstripe suit smoking stogies and plotting how to screw the worker. Hey, however you want to rationalize away reality.

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:31pm

      @MACPAPPY

      Ha! Inching back my butt. I build houses, hire people everyday, buy materials, and have hands on experience in the real world, and buddy it is not inching back. It is still in decline. Gas at near $4.00, unemployment near 10%, more and more Americans on food stamps, illegals taking jobs, black flash mobs in the streets, Dems out inciting riots across America.
      Yes, and all on Your guys watch. Hell, all this did start with him. I wish for the days of Bush when gas was 2.50, employment was not an issue, not flash mobs, no racial haterd, no thrid war. No Union
      riots as in WI
      Yeah, you guys are great at what you do, disrupt, disparrage, distroy jobs.
      Take your talking points and refresh them.

      http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nabe-us-economy-shows-more-signs-of-improvement-2011-04-18

      It’s incremental, but improvements are there. Again, you can’t say with a straight face that the economy is the way it is ENTIRELY because of president Obama and unions. That’s just naive.

      It sounds like you’re upset about a lot of things, and probably a little scared too. And, I don’t blame you. These are tough times. If you’d like, I can help you to understand the whys and hows of what’s happening in the world…You seem like you could use a hand. I’m here, buddy.

      We’re all in this together.

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:44pm

      @PERKINS

      Thank you! You are literally the first person here to challenge me with any real numbers, or data to back up your claims. And I admit that those numbers are pretty scary looking at first…HOWEVER, they come from a single anti-union source that doesn’t offer any sort of way to verify them, and is itself widely discredited.

      I appreciate the effort, though!

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:53pm

      dear idiot encinom..or whatever the hell your name is… please change that and establish your real name and take full credit for your jakass statements.. or are you a coward?…. secondly… Businesses offered Healthcare benefits to attract the best workers and retain them long term… nothing is more expensive to a business then Hiring, Firing and retraining people on a recurring basis… thirdly… weekends didnt originate because unions forced businesses to limit work to 40 hours per week.. it was religion oriented, allowing for days of rest on the sabath and sundays…. it then morphed into common practice, states even had blue laws that prevented businesses from being open on sundays Maine had those until 1989/90.. it had nothing to do with the unions… vacations and sick leave are PERKS!!! again, perks provided by Businesses to RETAIN the best workers… the unions exploited the notion after the fact/. Ps: Im a postal worker, Im in the Union, and i will tell you, if the Postal service hadnt gone Unionized, over- staffing, under staffing… paying MILLIONS IN GRIEVNECE MONEY TO PEOPLE WHO DONT PERFORM ANY WORK, and massive Overtime hours (clerks routinely get DOUBLE TIME PAY) to compensate for the Unions obscure rules and contracts… the Postal service would be a Huge Plus for the Nation, and fed Ex and UPS wouldnt even exist if it were operated like a true business.

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    • Conservative Queen
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:30pm

      @ Encinom & Johnny Carson – it would be SOOO refreshing if either of you would do even 2 seconds of research. While unions have pushed for better benefits, the reason companies really starting offering healthcare was not because of unions but because of the salary freeze imposed by the federal government after World War II. Since companies could not offer more money they offered other benefits such as healthcare. The unions had NOTHING to do with this. Once healthcare became part of the package, it stayed even when companies were allowed to offer better salaries again. Seriously guys, do some research. Actually read some REAL history instead of just spewing what you hear on your liberal blogs. Can’t either of you think for yourselves? There may have been a time for unions, but they are so corrupt, bullish and greedy now that they are destroying everything that has made America great and everything that will allow this country to continue. Ask the non-union business owner who got harassed and shot by the Verizon union worker. How about all the union workers who are bussed here and there to protest, harass, and trash non-union issues? Are you REALLY proud of this “civility” that we are told we are suppose to have? You keep trying to demean the tea party which has been nothing but civil and respectful while you side with bullies and increasingly violent groups. That says more about the both of you than anything you’ve ever written.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:56pm

      Oh and ENCIDIOT?
      When, Gov. Walker took over the state. Wisconsin taxpayers faced the fourth largest tax burden in the country, the state carried a $3 billion structural deficit and unions had a monopoly on power.
      As America continues to struggle with unemployment, Wisconsin added a net of 9,500 new jobs in June — more than half the 18,000 created nationwide. Meanwhile, neighboring Illinois lost 7,200 jobs in June — and the state’s government is pursuing the well-worn liberal path of drastically higher taxes in order to combat crippling deficits. Wisconsin’s resurgence comes after three years of job losses – more than 150,000 jobs were lost in the three years before Walker became governor. Since he took office in January, the state has added 39,300 private-sector jobs. That puts Walker on pace to exceed his goal of 250,000 new jobs in four years.
      Come on ENDICIOT…bleat for us again how the tea parties are a “front group for DC insiders” and how useful the unions are…LOL.

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:20pm

      @CONSERVATIVEQUEEN

      You conservatives are an incredibly literal lot, aren’t you? No one said unions invented benefits or weekends, etc..However, it is because of unions that these ‘perks’ have remained in place and become so prevalent.

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    • Perkins
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:52pm

      @JohnnyCarson,
      Ok, like I said, I think you seem reasonable, but now you are starting to annoy me. First, you asked for facts, so I did a quick less than five minute search and found some. Granted that particular source was probably a bad choice, but another thirty second search found plenty of other sources on industrial violence, of course, they are as unreliable as the LA Times, the NY Daily News, the Wall Street Journal, the British Government, the Australian Government, and the US Government. But my favorite is from Wharton published in 1983 showing 1,844 incidents of violence from 1975 through 1981. Oh, but they must be lying too.

      But what really gets my goat is that you used my, admittedly poor, initial facts to ignore my PERSONAL EXPERIENCE completely. Amazing how selective you were in your response.

      Government is supposed to prevent the use of coercion and force in the market, and while the Unions broke up the legally favored corporate evil a long time ago, now they have become more like the organized crime they ended, especially considering they are the ones legally favored (see the Enmons case). The simple fact is Unions have become the evil they sought to end, and we need to stop them from using the government in the same way they stopped corporations 100 years ago.

      But like I said before, rationalize away reality however you want, it won’t change the facts.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:04pm

      The sad fact is, that if Obummer would just go back to Kenya, the U.S. economy would recover on its own. He’s either slowing its recovery on purpose or just by incompetence.

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    • Perkins
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:05pm

      @JohnnyCarson
      While I’m thinking about it, would you show us ignorant fox watchers how if unions went away all the perks you keep extolling would go with them?

      I’d appreciate the effort.

      (Yes, it made me slightly cross that it sounded like you were patronizing me. I harbor no ill will toward you, but I would point out that such statements can easily be misunderstood.)

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    • Perkins
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:25pm

      Oh, and for anyone following the statistics going by, if the trend shown by Wharton from 1975 through 1981 continued, the number of incidence of violence since 1975 would be 9,220, which is rather close the 8,799 cited above (and very close to a number I remember when I was researching this about a year ago). Maybe the “debunked” NILRR numbers are close even if their math is like Al Gore’s, a bit little fuzzy.

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    • BuckeyeWithA45
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:12pm

      When are you going to thank the uniuons for your healthcare, weekends and overtime? Thanks to the blood spilled by union brothers and sisters you enjoy higher pay and a safer working environment. Like a typical tea-****** you are nothing more than a greedy child only looking out for yourself with no care for society at large.
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      Where does it say I have to look out for society at large? I checked my constitution and didnt see that part, can you enlighten me? Besides one of my first memories as a young child were of Teamsters members pushing down my mother and spitting on her in a grocery store parking lot. It seems they didnt like my father giving up his union job for a management position but instead of taking it out on my rather large father they attacked him wife and 5 year old son. Still hit one of the pukes in the nads though. So I thank the union ***** for not one damn thing thank you

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:02am

      @ncinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:21pm
      I guess you were asleep during the 8 year reign of terror known as the W. years.
      ***
      Nope that’s [War On Terror] and I was around and didn’t see any American Military bases blown up in this country. Didn’t see our State Dept e-mails posted on Wiki Leaks to upset or allies, and ingratiate our enemies. Didn’t see a supposed ally give access to the Communist Chinese of one of our Top Secret Helicopters so they could actually take pieces of it back to their own country to decipher why it was stealth. Didn’t hear Condi Rice say of such an affront, “We don’t like it, but there’s not much we can do about it!” Didn‘t hear our allies saying that they’d just have to figure out how to make it in a world where they couldn‘t count on the US if they ’re attacked. Didn’t have to be afraid the Dept of Education would break through the front door to collect on a “past due” student loan. Didn‘t have a major musical instrument company padlocked and essentially put out of business so they couldn’t have access to the necessary paperwork to defend themselves from some pompous charge of using wood that would be the new “blood diamond” issue! Didn‘t have FEMA tell us they’d have to take the money from some other disaster to cover the flooding from a tropical storm, which wasn’t nearly as strong as they thought. Didn‘t have W staying on an Island so a businessman couldn’t get in to protect his property just in case.
      Yep! W,

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  • powhatan
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:52pm

    We really need to just “ban” unions. They are commie organizations now anyway…VERY anti America!

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:34pm

      It’s anti-american to strive for fair wages, safe working conditions, and putting an end to exploitative measures in the work place? PLEASE, explain to me how that’s anti-american?

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    • Ron_WA
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:39pm

      I’m not a fan of unions either but … The People have the right to assemble. If you ban unions then you need to ban all other associations including all political parties & even faith based organizations. Like them or not unions are part of Americana.

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    • Snafu777
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:40pm

      To be fair, not quite everything they’ve done(usually inadvertantly) has been bad. There is a place for unions, but it ISN’T in politics. I agree with you about the socialist leanings of the unions. For goodness sake we‘re talking about organizations who’ve walked hand-in-hand with nearly every organized crime syndicate in America. Union dues are just “protection money,” and anyone who’s worked with the unions knows it.

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    • macpappy
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:55pm

      You don’t have to ban them, hell give folks a choice. Instead make every state a Right To Work state. That’s all you have to do, completion will kill the union. I have never seen a union worker produce as well as an independent contractor. An independent will work cheaper, harder, and he will take care of his own medical, and retirement. We don’t have to ban them, just level the playing field and they disappear even faster than they are now.

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    • SICKOFPCNESS
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:58pm

      It is not anti-American to strive for better working conditions or fair pay and at some point in the past that is what the unions did. After they accomplished those goals your union bosses enjoyed the power they acquired had to justify their existence so greed set in.

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    • johnnycarson
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:00pm

      BTW, as for the article this thread belongs to: Damn right people have a right to assemble. I’m not at all against everyone being invited to a parade.

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  • pap pap
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:51pm

    Radke says that labor day is about honoring hard working people and, in his opinion, “Republicans don’t represent those values”.

    Heh Radke Skrew You. There’s quite a few of us hard working republicans out there.

    Labor Day isn’t just for communists you idiot.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:59pm

      I’m with you, I bet registered Republicans provide way more of the Fed’s tax income than Democrats do. I would love to see a study on that. Money in = Republican, money out = Democrat.

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  • WBOB
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:49pm

    thank you Mayor of Wausau

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    • HKS
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:51pm

      Someone has to be the adult here, way to go.

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    • spirit of freedom
      Posted on August 31, 2011 at 2:30pm

      pull your head out! really, eventually you will begin to see the reality of the world more clearly.

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  • team1blazer
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:48pm

    Randy Radtke says the labor day parade is to honor the hard working citizens and “republicans dont represent those values”……PLEASE!! Who do you think pays the tab for all of the democrats on welfare? Get a life IDIOT… and QUIT LYING to the American public.

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  • wboehmer
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:47pm

    Figures – The union officials don‘t even know that they don’t have the authority to decide who can participate. Now they probably don’t realize HOW STUPID THIS MAKES THEM LOOK!

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:46pm

    Unions are bad for America and need to be wiped out for good,they’re destroying jobs here with the help of their puppet in the wh.

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  • GaryInTheMiddle
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:44pm

    Unions suck. Totally.

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    • HKS
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:46pm

      amen

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    • IntegrityFirst08
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:50pm

      Make em pay, i love it.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:07pm

      Ironic that Unions want to claim Labor Day as their Holiday when in reality they do the least amount of Labor in this country that they can get away with. The new Union label for a company is CLOSED! If you want to know the truth about Unions here is a good site.

      http://unionfacts.org/#

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    • woodyb
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:25pm

      Unions suck Totally AND LITERALLY — they suck the blood from the economy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:44pm

      @Blackhawk

      Your Union lies website is a front group for Richard Berman. Berman is a paid hit man for the elites that you say the Tea-Party is opposed to. When the tobacco industry needs a front group to say that smoking is A-PKAY they call on Rick Berman. The link to the website is meaningless, there are not “union facts” just lies from the elites that control the tea-party and seek to surpress the rights of Americans.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Berman

      He is for Drunk Driving and against Mothers. http://www.prweek.com/news/news_worldwire.cfm?ID=235855&site=3

      “Berman is against every single measure, no matter how sensible. He’d have no restrictions on tobacco advertising, junk foods galore in schools. No minimum wage,” Jacobson tells Safer. “He wants to leave corporate America unfettered of any regulations that protect the public’s health.”

      Jacobson says corporate America simply hires Berman to say the nasty things they wouldn’t dare say themselves.

      “He’s a hit man. He’s dishonest, deceptive, he makes things up,” Jacobson says. “He does things that the companies can’t do or say themselves, badmouthing just about anybody who says anything critical of industry.”
      http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/11/60minutes/main2653020_page2.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:03pm

      encinom

      I really like how you use Liberal lie factories to try and discredit Berman.

      BTW, Rick Berman‘s website was around Long before the Tea Party Movement but I’ll give you a “C” for just trying to make a connection you ill informed buffoon. Let me guess………..You are a communist Union member!

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    • ratzit56
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:19pm

      Can’t control the tea party. It’s not a group, it’s an idea.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:26pm

      @Blackhawk1
      No one is so blind as one that refuses to see.

      The Tea Party is just another front group for DC insiders like Berman. The Facts are the website you hold up is nothing more than lies bought and paid for by special interests seeking to limit the rights of Americans. Do you enjoy being so dumb?

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    • AmericablessGod
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 6:44pm

      ENCINOM – Unions once were a positive force for workers rights. That ended about 40 years ago. We have labor laws to protect workers and something called a free job market where employers compete for workers with pay and benefit packages.

      Unions are completely irrelevant today and have morphed into organized crime, bilking it’s members to donate to democrats to keep them in power while bankrupting government and employers (see American Auto industry).

      They are criminal thugs and need to be put in their place – on the Ash heap of history.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:12pm

      Union labor makes up a very, very small percentage of the American Labor force. If anyone is banned from the Labor Day parade, it should be union labor.

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  • SCTiger
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:41pm

    Kudos to the Mayor.

    Go pound sand, Unions!

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  • Eraldo NY Tea Party
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:41pm

    No more Unions.

    Port Washington NY is Union-free School District and everybody from NYC move to here to put theirs child in ours school.

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  • sillyfreshness
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:41pm

    I see those commie labor unions are at it again. The left is the most ignorant, hateful, racists group and they have the guts to accuse the right of being that way. Can you imagine a business parade banning commie labor union workers from attending? Those Bolsheviks have such a double standard and that’s exactly what these labor unions are Bolsheviks. However, these labor unions are all for allowing illegal aliens into the US to take jobs away from fellow American workers. Why? I think it’s because these commie labor unions have a higher goal in mind over their labor rights and that is “diversity.” They want to let in illegal aliens to help water down the population in the US. They are Bolsheviks through and through and they are every bit as dangerous as the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1917.

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  • chfields62
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:40pm

    My hats off to the Mayor for standing up against the union thugs!!

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    • HKS
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:49pm

      Unions and Liberals hate that word, NO. Makes them want to cry and pout and kick things around, but like most two year-olds they will get over it and cry themselves to sleep.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:06pm

      That’s after they hold their breath and stomp their little feet just to make a point. Just tell them all to go sit quietly in the corner with a coloring book. Oh, and remind them to NOT eat the crayons this time or they’re not getting anymore.

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  • MBA
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:40pm

    Note to the liberal b**bs who think they represent labor–the GOP are the “hard-working tax payers” in this country. If you cannot honor the conservatives who supply the cash for your corruption, greed, and entitlements, then maybe we should stop paying taxes altogether. As I see it, the first Federal budget cut will have to be for any support to unions. And BTW, what you do you about values since you liberals have none. Geez!

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  • NJTMATO
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:39pm

    Please, GROW UP Unions and Union Members. All of us Americans are hard workers! For crying out loud, can’t you find SOMETHING NOT TO WHINE ABOUT???

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    • Shasta
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:02pm

      The way they see it, if you are not in a union, you are not part of US labor.The unions were on their last legs until Obonzo was elected and is propping them up with our tax dollars, ‘secured’ assests of bond holders, and now a class war

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:38pm

    Wi Republican’s represent ALL hard working citizens, what they don’t represent is strongarmed, blatant unfair public worker extortion of benefits, pay, sick time, vacations and other outlandish perks that Unions have forced tax payers to burden for decades and have caused State budgets to be run dry.

    If Public Union lab wants to be treated “fairly” then they should receive pay that is equal to the private sector, benefits equal to the private sector, pay into their retirement and health benefits like the private sector – essential be toe to toe equal with the private sector, but they would have their Union backing ontop of the Labor and OSHA laws that protect both private and public sector workers, now THAT is fair and THAT is what Republicans represent, fairness for ALL… Democrats only want fairness for their voting block and could care less about private sector workers.

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:31pm

      You sir, said it the best.. good post, and thank you for being vocal on the issues!!! im with you!

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  • godlovinmom
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:38pm

    Can you imagine the GOP banning anyone from anything???…all the “poop” would hit the fan!

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:38pm

    No way they’ll pay. They prefer to spend other people’s money.

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  • Dinkiecb
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:37pm

    If ALL are not invited and made welcome then I think the parade should be canceled and all costs incurred so far should come out of the pocket of the guy who doesnt want the politicians there. How stupid do you these people have to be and how dare they think that every citizen should be allowed to come. If they don’t like the political climate…when election time comes then vote … how hard is it…

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  • HKS
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:37pm

    Makes sense to me, if your dictating who can attend that makes it a private party, they should also have to rent the public property, pay for security, license fees and any other cost incurred by the citizens.

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  • Chuck Stein
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:36pm

    Of course the unions should pay if it their own private event — which is how they are now treating it.

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:36pm

    Union’s……….time to get rid of them, period.

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    • HKS
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:43pm

      ditto

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    • jblovesAmerica
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:51pm

      just quit collecting dues. make the members pay directly-lets see how many members pay up on time, without some controls on how the dues are spent.

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    • Anadara
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:18pm

      I agree. Time to get the feathers and start cooking the tar.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:35pm

    That’s telling them. We aren’t going to fund, or put up, their crap anymore.

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  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:34pm

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    Boycott the Neo-Commies.

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