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Re: Unions put millions into health debate

domewatcher — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:44:41 -0400

"But key voting blocs, including state workers and many service workers, are represented by labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU. Labor groups have organized rallies, town hall meetings, phone banks and advertising in support of health-care reform."

Are you sure about this? I thought it was the insurance companies who were busing these mobs in from out-of-town.

Re: Unions put millions into health debate

PaulTerrell — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:50:31 -0400

Looks like Miller-Democrat is for sale. Looks like the Unions are "manufacturing" support to destroy the best healthcare this world has.

If you want a representative for the 13th district that is not a screw up like Miller is. When it comes to the MASSIVE debt that Miller has voted for then BILL RANDALL-Republican is your candidate.

Board of Community Colleges

exuma59 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:02:38 -0400

Let's see...........you can be an illegal (oh, excuse me, UNDOCUMENTED) immigrant, supposedly wanted by ICE, BUT welcomed with open arms and pay out of state tuition. WONDERFUL!! Only in America. I suppose that soon, the Board idiots will come up with some stupid plan to allow all the terrorists at GITMO to somehow become eligible for free college paid by the taxpayers.

Re: N.C. trusts military, not Wall Street

JustWondering — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:35:23 -0400

Polls like these are rather silly. People should be judged on their own records, not as a group. That having been said, notice how nonsensical these group judgments are. For example, how can we trust the military if we cannot trust the politicians who have the constitutional responsibility to regulate the military? After all, civilian politicians control the military (and that is the way it should be).

Re: N.C. trusts military, not Wall Street

omegaman — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:05:37 -0400

Another "famous" Elon Poll without the demographic data to back its findings.

Re: Perdue dedicates union hall

CitizenOpinionated — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:38:11 -0400

"Perdue was elected last year with significant support from organized labor."

That is an understatement!

How the West was Won

Let it be very clear, which I think it is, Labor is trying so hard to change this state for their advantage and sock puppets like Perdue and Hagan will help them.

Re: Hagan: Not enough votes for card check

mountainman — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:01:40 -0400

That movie deliverance, with Ned Beatty kept folks away from our mountains back in the 70's and 80's. Then you left wing liberal freaks decided that you love to have a little chase and play piggy in a mountain laurel thicket.

Yes, MountainMan?

Gosh — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:05:37 -0400

gosh you can dish it out, but you can't take it!!!

I'm fully aware that in your one particular area of expertise I'm Ned Beatty. Problem for you is, in this one, you're mine.

Now squeal like a pig for me until you have a budget with numbers, and a plan to do something but send jobs overseas.

Squeeeeeeal Republican. Squeal like a pig. Come on!

Re: Hagan: Not enough votes for card check

mountainman — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:04:46 -0400

gosh you can dish it out, but you can't take it!!!

Re: Hagan: Not enough votes for card check

Gosh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:36:06 -0400

It's amazing to me that Hagen even won with Internet posters like "MountainMan" and "BitterEXDemocrat" posting such logical points as this.

Hagen you make sick!!!!!!!

I mean what has this nation come to when fringe elements with Internet access don't supersede Democratic elections?

Re: Hagan: Not enough votes for card check

mountainman — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:10:28 -0400

Hagen you make sick!!!!!!!you are a communist or something worse. The secret ballot insures individuals right to vote as they see fit without being intimidated by a bunch of pro-union thugs!!!! But of course you know that already without me pointing out. I know your game, the unions control workers and their vote, now I am getting at the truth. The democrat communist congress controls the unions, Lord Obama controls congress!!! So you can basicly elect yourself. Keep printing money and soon we will be speaking chineese. The only good thing about that is the people will be rid of you and that bunch of parasites in washington.

Re: Hagan: Not enough votes for card check

BitterEXdemocrat — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:16:25 -0400

Hagan is UNFIT FOR SERVICE ! ! !

Re: Saying no to EFCA? Thanks for undermining Democracy!

RichardWhitehead — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:13:04 -0400

Well, I am not going to take your response too seriously. From my experience, people that attack the messenger and not the message are usually diverting attention from the fact that they do not have a worthwhile argument from the outset. You do this in two places: 1) You assume that because I posted the comment last week that I actually spent a month laboring over a response. Get real! Did you even read what I wrote, because you really say nothing about it? 2) You attack the CEPR based on your perception of the institute’s political leaning rather than critics based on the data’s empirical or methodological merits. Furthermore, just because you use the term “liberal” means nothing, since so many see anything to the left of Fox News as a bastion of leftwing liberalism. The term, as you use it, is devoid of anything concrete.

In short, if you’re going to actually respond, maybe you need to be the one to take a few weeks and formulate concrete arguments. The only thing of substance you post is a quote from the Heritage Foundation (and you never quote anything anyway) and the questions about GM and BMW plants, What’s your point with these question? Maybe you should be the one to sort out the argument, rather than relying on me. As far as the legal recourse under the current system, have you ever gone through that process? The fact that you defend it as a viable remedy against management intimidation tells me you never did.

Re: Hagan: Not enough votes for card check

rusty_shackleford — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:27:52 -0400

So private voting isn't an American heritage anymore? Even the new government in Iraq allows their citizens to cast votes in private.

After we've seen how well the Unions have helped the auto industry, why do we want more of that kind of influence? Oh yeah, votes for Dems. My bad.

Re: Saying no to EFCA? Thanks for undermining Democracy!

CitizenOpinionated — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:27:27 -0400

First of all, I am glad that it took you approximately a month to formulate your thoughts on the matter, but hell I will bite and play with you.

If someone is illegally fired, do they have the option of going through the court system? The CEPR is nothing short of a liberal think tank, so I can automatically respond with a quote from the Heritage Foundation, which touts how high union intimidation has gotten in recent years.

How much do union workers make in Detroit at the GM plant?

How much do comparable workers make in South Carolina at the BMW plant?