Deja Vu: Noisy Unions Storm Michigan Capitol Protesting GOP Gov’s Budget Bill
- Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:04pm by
Meredith Jessup
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It’s deja vu all over again. A Republican governor’s budget meets strong union resistance. Union members flood into the state capitol building. Hippie drum circles commence.
Okay, I haven’t seen any drums YET, but I’ve heard all the familiar chants: “This is what democracy looks like!”; “Solidarity forever!”; and everyone’s favorite “They got bailouts, we got sold out!” Liberal blog site DemocraticUnderground.com announced earlier: Occupation of Michigan State Capitol in Lansing Has Begun.” Unions and other liberal interest groups are once again scheduling bus trips to bring protesters into Lansing from across the state.
Michigan’s newly elected Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is proposing to cut state taxes by $1.7 billion, financed in part by applying the state income tax to public and private pensions. Additionally, Snyder’s budget seeks $360 million in wage concessions from state employees with half the savings coming from requiring a minimum 20 percent employee contribution toward their own health insurance costs.
Snyder’s approach to a union “crackdown” has been much more modest than that of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker who recently approved a measure stripping public unions of many collective bargaining privileges. In the past, Snyder has signaled opposition to so-called “Right to Work” legislation and efforts to get rid of prevailing wage rules which many say have had significant negative impacts on the state’s ability to compete. Nevertheless, unions complain that Snyder’s financial emergency legislation would allow state-appointed fiscal managers to terminate labor agreements.
Union bosses in Michigan are crying foul, arguing that pensioners are already struggling:
Speaking to thousands of union members from the steps of the Capitol, UAW President Bob King put Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget and tax proposal in stark terms, asserting that it’s designed to take money out of the pockets of those with low wages and fixed income in order to distribute it to “wealthy” business owners.
“This governor and this Republican Party want to take almost $2 billion more off of working people in Michigan and who does he want to give it to?” King yelled. “The wealthy, the corporations.”
“And for this governor to want to steal from them to give it to the wealthy, is that wrong?” King asked. By eliminating the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit, as Snyder’s proposal does, “they want to increase taxes on people working every day, every week, the working poor in Michigan.”
King called Snyder’s efforts part of what he called a broad Republican “attack on the middle class.”
Fresh from his appearance in Wisconsin, progressive filmmaker Michael Moore was on hand, streaming live video from the capitol building.
“I’m asking everyone who can to take Wednesday off and head to the State Capitol in Lansing to protest the cruel and downright frightening legislation currently being jammed down our throats,” Moore wrote on his website. “Governor Snyder, once elected, yanked off his nice-guy mask to reveal that he is in fact a multi-millionaire hell-bent on destroying our state and turning it over to his buddies from Wall Street … Trust me, you will rue the day you sat home and did nothing while thieves posing as politicians stole your Great Lakes State from you.”
At the end of the day, state police successfully closed down the capitol building after arresting five student protesters for trespassing after they refused to leave.
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Comments (253)
Ken2
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:13pmI look at the poor Japanese suffering in silence and coping with the worst of all disasters, and then I look at these simpering tools, whining about their “unfair” treatment. I am drawn to the conclusion that these “workers” are what the Democrat Party is. God help us if such a disaster strikes the US…these will be the people we will have to stop from looting the homes of the stricken. In fact, thety might not wait for a natural disaster. They may create one for themselves. And we’ll be waiting!
Report Post »skimmer57
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:24pmAnd then beck could get out those m&m’s and explain the whole situation to us. Pure genius!
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:34pmYou are right. Watching them makes me ashamed that we have put up with them so long!!
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:37pmKen2, you are absolutely right! I have been thinking this all along. Seeing the demeanor and the manners of the Japanese people and the kindness they have shown to one another makes you stop and think how it would be if the same or even less happened here. Especially if the entirely infrasystem broke down. The thugs would be ripping down doors to get theirs, even if they had to kill you for it. Self preservation, only they don’t want to do anything to prepare for it. They’d rather have someone else pay the bill, or suffer the consequences, while they keep sucking on the tit of the taxpayer….I’m sick of it. Prepare folks, and be prepared to help your neighbors also…as I hope they will help you.
Report Post »football lady
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 9:39pmAbsoutely right! These union folks should be ashamed.
Report Post »barrycooper
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:11pm“wealthy” business owners? Bob, how much do you make again? Who pays your salary again?
UAW members: just so you know, we’re hiring throughout the south. Come on down, the weathers fine, and you get to keep a lot more of what you make.
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:11pmWow, I’m really impressed by how little union workers actually work.
I heard today that California is going to have to lay off 19,000 teachers to make budget.
Report Post »jordy2010
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:09pmThe union thugs are doing the Bottom up thing……hoping that Obama and his communist radicals will do the Top down part……… so that morons like Anthonky K. ”Van” Jones can try the Inside out part (the HARD part….) that’s when the crap will hit the fan……
Report Post »WILLIAM E.
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:08pmUnions have Michigan in real nice shape. If they go a little further we can bulldoze the whole place into a hole !!
Report Post »Mahakala
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:05pmIt’s getting closer to the time wheret we will have to lock and load to protect ourselves from these union thugs.
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:30pmAnd that prospect is getting very iffy.. Obama is thinking of an “Executive order” to take guns away from “people they think should not have them”. Wide open there huh? Not criminals, not felons, but folks with “mental problems” and those that they feel “ should not have them”. NRA refused to even meet with him. My oldest brother and my youngest one both said this day was coming. They can have my guns when they pry them from my cold dead fingers.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 8:35pmThat unfortunately, is going to be the most “sublime” crsis this adminstratio could hope for!!!!
Report Post »Long Neck News
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 8:50pmWell, if he is going to take the guns away from the people he had better find the police in my area that are willing to do so, cause none of them will! Of course I live in the mid west and we still have a sense of morality, now on the other hand, West and East cost are in trouble, BIG!
Report Post »VermontPatriot
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 9:03pmThe smart folks are getting unregistered guns and hiding them.
When it hits the fan, be prepared.
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:01pmYep, unemployment next…
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:59pmJust compare the whining, parasitic, self involved union people with the integrity which the Japanese are now demonstrating to the world. It angers me that the union demonstrators call themselves American. They certainly don‘t behave like they deserve the considerations they’ve already been given, let alone anything further.
Report Post »pscully17
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:52pmThe people in the public service jobs are the most vile types that will destroy the United states. Public SERVICE isnt suppose to compete with the private sector pay scales.. its a SERVICE!!! Not an Entitlement factory built for the unions to hijack the tax payer check books with guarenteed jobs for life and high cost pensions. The Tax Payer Checking accounts arent open for your convenience! I applaud the Michigan move, the wisconsin move and its going to get violent very soon. The Entitlement train is crashing!!
Report Post »Cherynn
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:52pmgive me mine and i’ll be fine, give me mine and i’ll be fine……..are we having fun yet?
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:54pmNow that’s good!!!
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:39pmGlenn Beck predicted this kind of stuff more than a year ago. He warned about this even before the riots in the EU. Is he a genius? No. He just uses common sense which in affect makes him a genius because no one else in the MSM is using it.
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:37pmWhat a bunch of crybabies, My employer pays 40 percent of my health care. Can they come up with anything other than those annoying chants? Maybe a folk singer….
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:36pmRe-load Unions!
Report Post »macombman
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:30pmGeeze 20 people? LOL
Report Post »Beware of Romans
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:29pmI remember when Labour Unions were actually to help the working class.
Now Labour Unions only protect illegal monoploies and wealthy workers. (Teachers, Automotive, Electrical, Ect…) with bloated salaries, bloated benefits and taxpayer funded pensions.
The day we allowed government workers to unionize was the day Freedom in America started dying.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:10pm“and wealthy workers. (Teachers,”
“Teachers,”
Oh you :3
Report Post »Anubis2069TX
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:26pmYou would think that with all the money Mikey Moore has he could have provided a better video stream..looks like crapola
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:31pmHe needs a serious make-over.
Report Post »Umightcallmeracist
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:51amSpent all his money on Ding-Dongs and Twinkies. Whatt a fat pig.
Report Post »FromtheBasement
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:19pmThey’re upset because they have to pay 20% of their medical insurance costs? I have to pay 100% of mine and most of them make more money than I do. Why are they so special? Give me a break.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:08pmThis is the so called “Crab mentality”.
Look it up!
Report Post »notreally
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:16pmSocialism is a religion. One cannot reason with religious zealots.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:42pmThat is a truth. All should understand that anything you consciously and vigorously pursue is a religion
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:15pmI know, it’s obvious why these folks need a union to get a job.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:15pmApparently the only people interested in the Unions are the thugs that want to keep all the goodies that they have aguired at tax payer exspense. Please end the free entitlement Union society. These people will have to understand that they are no different then the regular normal people that are citizens of that state.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:14pmWhat a nice bunch of people. Really makes you want to stand shoulder to shoulder with these fine union thugs, doesn’t it?
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 8:31pmProbably just slightly upwind!
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:13pmYawn. Union protests are sooooooooooo yesterday.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:50pm Report Post »IntrepidSI
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:30pmAgreed! How angry these folks must be – not over the loss and suffering of the people of Japan, but of the spotlight not shining on them.
Like an angry Bridesmaid.
Report Post »IntrepidSI
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:31pmAnd for those who think that the Unions were not in Wisconsin to protect their dues, not their Rank and File members, not your kids, let’s have my favorite quote from NEA General Council Bob Chanin:
“Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas; it is not because of the merit of our positions; it is not because we care about children; and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child.
The NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of million of dollars in dues each year“ ”
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:12pmThe union hogs at the public trough squealing for more. Oink Oink Oink. Now the thuggery begins. This is NOT how democracy looks. It’s how both the socialists and fascists operate. Intimidate, disrupt, and destroy property, while constantly squealing for more.
Report Post »Toastery
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:34pmI guess Jesse will have a job a while longer. He must be on vacation at the moment though and that’s why Moore started showing up.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:44pmjj does weekends. –No?
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:08pmWhere are the rubber bullets?
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:16pmMy dachshund has a rubber pork-chop toy – would that help?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:23pmNext to the rubber gun.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:06pmThese thugs will NEVER give up. They have too much to lose and they are in ATTACK MODE now.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:18pmWhat, they haven’t had enough yet. Don’t you guys have anything better to do than disrupt the process of real government or do you just want to see how much you can continue to squeeze out of the system?
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:19pmIts a short trip from Madison…..Reality still light years away :)
Report Post »I guess we passed the freak show>
cheezwhiz
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:21pmMI is no TN
PrfctlyFrank
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:23pmThey will never give up, that much is true.. We are bound to listen to the wail of the filthy rich union bosses perpetually.. They have chosen corruption, and the lust for power over common sense.. They are a virus, that will willingly kill it’s host, and then condemn the host for dying as a cheap way out of responsibility.. Disgusting and pathetic..
Report Post »Dictatorship
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:23pmCry, cry, baby.
The unions are going DOWN
And they are crying out LOUD.
No dictatorship for this country.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:24pmMichigan needs to take lessons from TN and nip this in the bud. High fines are in order for arrests, lawyer up and court costs. Unless this starts hitting these people hard in the pocketbook it is just going to get worse and, I don’t know about anyone else, but it is getting old. It seems to be a diversion so Obama’s minions can sneak other things into our lives to take away more freedom.
Report Post »lemmings4obama
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:32pmIf the unions would take all of their funds allocated to political contributions and protest travel and actually give it back to the workers they “protect,” or God forbid not take that extra money from the tax payers in the first place, then we might not be in this situation. I probably just confused 35% of Americans… aka the dim ones, I mean dem ones.
Report Post »jblovesAmerica
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:37pmUAW president is speaing-a guy who BHO has bought off with the bail out money from taxpayers.
Report Post »how much does this guy make and who is paying him the union or the auto companies.
i can only smile-what a joke.
Dustyluv
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:40pmI can’t wait until they wake up and drag Bob King, Michael Moore and Richard Trumpka into the streets and beat their a@@! Yep, it will happen…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:44pmI don‘t know but I’ve been told, Union Bosses are getting bold
Report Post »From Wisconsin, land of cheese, they will take apart the free
Sound off, comrades all
Sound off, freedom falls
I don‘t know but it’s been said, Trumpka will not stop till the streets are Red
If you stand up you will fall, Obama’s rule will trump it all
Sound off, take a toke
Sound off, Ban free vote
Union pukes will riot now, they won’t stop til they hear the cows
SEIU and the rest, they won’t stop until freedoms dead.
Showtime
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 5:54pmHmnmm. ProgressiveLiberalMarine said there was a bad egg in every carton. Progressive, why are there so many cartons with so many bad eggs? You didn’t see any bad eggs at the Restoring Honor event with Glenn Beck. Only those associated with the Progressive movement seem to stink.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:07pmAnd they will not give up until their masters have decided they either have outlived their usefulness as ‘useful idiots’ or achieve all their needs, even if they have to sacrifice every follower at hand to make things happen.
Report Post »Now this is Art
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:07pmunions will be the death of this country…just like europe.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:08pmThe unions are being hit at their Achilles heel – their control over employers. Control over employers attracts union members and DUES!!!. No need to be a union member if the unions’ power is lost. NO NEED TO PAY DUES! Money lost!
MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY
Report Post »MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY
MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY
MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY
MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY
MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY
is what it’s all about! Not the children.
nothingbuthetruth
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:13pmwhat a bunch of babies!!! Hired thugs
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:13pmHey, hey, Ho, ho, these protesters have got to go!
Report Post »lecar
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:18pmThey just want to beautify the MI state capitol like they took great care of the WI capitol!
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:24pmWhile the Tea-Baggers protested on behalf of their corporate masters, such as the Koch Brothers. What you are seeing here, is a true grass roots movement of people standing up for their rights.
allvoss
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:33pmIt is slowly crashing down around them.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:34pmDeath to the unions, not the union members, just the unions. But some of these unions thugs should be thrown in jail.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:38pmUnions did a great job for you in Michigan didn’t they… Oh, where did your union jobs go? Over seas? Gee … wonder why…
Report Post »Jim from Maine
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 6:46pmI see your Momma let you use her computer again Encinom … you really add nothing to this conversation. Hufpo really should find another troll you have been outed.
Report Post »*************************
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:00pmWell, commie union thugs, just think of it as … CHANGE.
sheriff BART: “Excuse me while I whip this out.”
Report Post »[reaches into pants, crowd gasps and screams, pulls out legislative paper]
CROWD: “Ahhhhh.”
-Blazing Saddles
12 gauge
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:04pmGov. Rick Snyder is hanging tough against the unions. I hope congress follows his lead.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:14pmMichigan:
Report Post »Take A Look At Tennessee’s Solution To The Imported Professional Agitators And Do Likewise!
right-wing-waco
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:55pmHey, why doesn’t the Governor pass the hat for contributions? I’ll bet he could solve all the budget problems in just 10 minutes.
Report Post »Kaen
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 8:17pmThe next state governor that goes after unions and out of control budets should, prior to announcing the plan…soak the lawns of the state capitol in medieval pitch…then, the first nutjob union/liberal pig that throws his roach or cigarette butt on the ground will torch them all…
Report Post »booger71
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 9:02pmDon’t these thugs have jobs? Maybe MoveOn is paying their salary
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 10:18pmFrom the protests you’d think Snyder was really a conservative republican.
the funniest union quote from the state was “Rick Snyder-Go back to big business where you came from”
UMMM go back to where you were a job creator for a living?
Report Post »dumb@ss
WhiteTeaParty
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 10:34pmSo we tax the poor and the working class to give to the rich???
Let this be a lesson to all Democrat’s and Independents. You voted or fail to vote in 2010, this is what you get.
All I can say is thank you to the Republican gov’s in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
What you have done is energized the Democratic party.
The protestors today in Michigan was over half senior citizens and they numbered in the thousands.
right-wing-waco
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 11:10pm@ WTP
“So we tax the poor and the working class to give to the rich???”
How do you figure that the poor are taxed to “give” to the rich? The last time I looked, people like Bill Gates, and Springfield were not twisting arms to make you buy their products. Besides, it is impossible to tax a business or rich person as they will pass the tax amount on to the consumer, (the poor), there for you are really taxing the poor even more.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 11:14pmThese union thugs are spinning their wheels. They can march and be violent all they want, but it will not change the inevitable. The days of big union domination of state policy are over. Now that they’ve lost their power in Idaho and Wisconsin, the domino effect will continue across the country. It’s time for union employees to be treated just like the average non-union worker. Union members certainly don’t deserve higher salaries. The progressives should be applauding….after all it’s equal pay for equal work, right?
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 11:16pmfor all of you lib trolls
Report Post »did you see what happen to mayor in fl who caved into the union gone–gone–gone
Therightsofbilly
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 11:36pmHey ENCINOM,
What I see there looks a lot more like a bowel movement than a grass roots movement.
Report Post »Bunch of turds laying around stinking up the joint.
CatB
Posted on March 16, 2011 at 11:53pmI wonder how much damage the will do? Maybe they will all go up to the glass floor in the top and it will give way .. oh well a girl can dream! It WAS a beautiful Capital. Will the TEA Party have to clean up the mess these thugs leave in Michigan also? I would love some pictures of what it looks like when the thugs leave!
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 12:19amDear Dad, please send me money so I can go to the state capitol to protest in favor of public unions and promote socialism, I think. Make the check extra big since it’s going to take awhile for me to graduate – I have to take most of my classes over. Anyways, there is going to be a lot of hot chicks at the protest. My professors are teaching me all about socialism and how money grows on trees that are kept hidden by the government and rich people. College is fun, I hope I never have to leave. I think I’ll go get an ObamaBucks student loan so I can stay forever. Pot, chicks, protesting and partying with professors – life is good.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:15amThey may NOT give up but they are paying a heavy price for it. Today was the first time that I had concrete proof that the attitude tide is turning against the Unions. While driving in town today I saw a bumper sticker that said… “How America spells Union… G-R-E-E-D-Y”. The wife and I laughed hard when we spotted it.
http://www.AmericasTeaPartyNews.com
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 2:33amdidn’t they aleady lose?
Report Post »yeargues
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 4:59amThugs, and punks who don’t understand anything. The status quo is perfectly fine with them.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:01amSomeone should remind these union protestors that the auto workers union pocketed over $4 billion from the GM bailout. They complain about bailouts, but thier leaders are the ones that made out like bandits.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:47amthe ferry across the lake is full. when will they learn they loose no matter what State this happens in!
try working for a living.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:10pmI agree with WHITETEAPARTY……….I think the Republicans better be really scared !!!!! WHITETEAPARTY has his finger on the pulse of America and whatever he says I agree with. How can so many disagree with him when wisdom flows through every comment he posts? Spot on once more WHITE. According to my count that is WHITE one gazillion and everybody else 0. When will the rest of the people learn?
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:13pmBTW………..I counted the senior citizens in the protest in Michigan individually and once more WHITE was money. Sure enough over thousands. Tsunami of liberalism is gearin’ up !!!! Better brace yourselves cause WHITE is right they are energized
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 3:21pmENCINOM knows the score. He knows what’s up ! WHITE and ENCINOM are some of the most precise intelligent insightful posters I have read. With their noses to the political ground they have been predicting this liberal movement for months and months. Their ability to connect the dots and see things other just miss is uncanny and unsurpassed. Sure it just a few thousand people protesting in the stronghold of “Unions R Us” country right now, but make no mistake their extensive research has shown that this movement will swell and pop up all over the country due to embolden unions leading eventually to a unionphate here in the US and the downfall of the dictatorships of private businessmen all over the country. They have also uncovered an extensive collusion of private business owners with conservatives and the Tea Party with subversive intentions set to oppress and enslave the common laborer. Once again they have penetrated the surface of things to brings us fortunate few the in depth analysis that only they can offer. Thank you again and we remain indebted to you both!!!!!!!
Report Post »BobatTREB
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 3:30pmThis is Demos- Cracy, (mob-rule) at work. They scream loudly because life has shown that you can lie, just lie at the top of your voice to drown out those speaking truth.
If Michiganders don’t pull their state out of the grips of socialist unions, they will go the way of the Peoples-Republic-0f-Detroit… can we spell BANKRUPT?
Report Post »valricoslash
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 9:39pmSounds like the Union’s last gasp bus tour. Waht are they now bussng the thugs from one state capital to the next. do these people have jobs or are they simply mercenaries on the union payrole? Wha they hate more than anythingis that the states are no longer to collet union dues from all state employees to pad their wallets and build their political war chests. Unions are so 20th Century. We are now moving on leaving them behind. Without government employees, total union membeship is less than 8 percent ofthe workforce nation wide. And most of that is concetrated in a few very Democratic states. The unions have not helped their members. Instead they have priced them out of the labor pool and forece their jobs overseas. I think the lemings realize this but in some state they have no choice. They have to be a member to work. This has got to be unconstitutional. The right to work is superior to the right to organize.
Report Post »rc30
Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:34pmLOL can’t wait for this to go thru. Rick kick the unions ass get it to be a right to work state. So I can please move back home. God Bless Texas but its really hot down here. Rick I would love to move back home to Michigan and start my company again. Dam man get er done.
I miss home moved to Texas in Feb of 09. Because I lost hope and now I have some again for my Great state. Unions Welfare Marxest bad. PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN WAKING UP AFTER 50 YEARS PRICELESS. Other thing its great when friends family tell you your nuts for your views and how crazy you are for going to Texas. Then 2 years later tells you how right you where and how can we get Michigan like Texas. Not broke no more not as rich as I was when things was good up there. But at least AM FREE IN TEXAS.
Report Post »rekindle america
Posted on March 20, 2011 at 6:45pmThis is how Obumer creates jobs with people like Trumka. Everybody who picks up a check in whatever state they are in that week, make the job situation look like its improving.
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