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Go Vols

(5,902 posts)
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 11:51 PM Jun 2016

"Obama says he'd be seen as moderate Republican in 1980s"

Hillary is Obama 3.0.

I made a ton of money in the '80s,but I was young and naive.Joined a Union later on.Fuck Ronnie Raygun.Spread the money around.

Is Hillary pro-union,or is TPP coming?

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merrily

(45,251 posts)
1. Union leaders supported Hillary. Union members, maybe, maybe not.
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 11:55 PM
Jun 2016

Also, a lot of rank and file who are not government employees have gone Republican. Would have broken my father's heart to see that. He was so proud of being elected shop steward in every tiny place he worked.

As far as TPP, Hillary helped negotiate it and called it the Gold Standard. However, once she started campaigning, she went all over the map about it.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
6. Everyone I know was for Bernie except my one Republican relative. He never talks politics to us, so
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 12:01 AM
Jun 2016

I have no clue who he was for.

 

Califonz

(465 posts)
2. It will be the usual Clintonite triangulation.
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 11:55 PM
Jun 2016

They will kick working people in the balls, but not quite as vigorously as the GOP would.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
3. This is ANOTHER reason to vote for HRC, went from 8% U3 to 4.7% U3 & fallin U5&6 I PRAY that she...
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 11:56 PM
Jun 2016

... will continue what Obama started.

People who hate Obama don't want that

 

JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
12. Unemployment is way highee than that it's been manipulated
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 02:55 AM
Jun 2016

since Reagan was in office it's really in the double digits. The income inequality increased under Obama and will continue under Clinton or if this country is dumb enough to elect Trump.

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
5. Democrats at One Time Were The Pro-Slavery Party...
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 11:59 PM
Jun 2016

...and Republicans were the urban party seeking to abolish it. Even in the 1980s, Democrats had a lot of former segregationists. including Robert Byrd. Reagan was considered the extreme right even for Republicans when he was first elected in 1980.

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
8. Still Are - "Democrats resist provision blocking NLRB's joint employer ruling"
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 12:06 AM
Jun 2016

If you think Republicans and Trump are somehow really to the left of Obama or Clinton, then there really is no helping you.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-employment-nlrb-idUSKBN0TY2VD20151215

U.S. congressional Democrats are beating back a Republican push to defang a National Labor Relations Board decision that could give unions greater bargaining power with large companies that rely on franchisees or contractors, a Senate Democratic aide said on Tuesday.

The aide, who asked not to be identified, said that for now, a government funding and tax policy bill was unlikely to contain a provision that would basically strike down the "Browning-Ferris Industries" NLRB ruling from earlier this year.

The aide said that with negotiations continuing on other parts of the sweeping measure, no provisions are finalized until they all were.

Industry groups argue that the NLRB ruling could hurt thousands of small companies and upend the franchise model.
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