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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 10:49 AM
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Now Bush is looking for Fairness?? Speaking to trade Union People
He sez "We in America can compete with any one, All we want is a level playing field, we want to compete with FAIRness, where the rules are the same"

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Excuse ME, Where was the fairness during the selection??

The Pubs did not play fair when they bussed in tons of lower ranking Pubs, sucking for Fed jobs, to Fla during the recount; For the sole purpose of STOPPING the RECOUNT. That Bush has some Gall, some Nerve, to stand there and talk about FAIRNESS. He never played fair in his life.

Look back to the days of the Nam war when he was THE so called pilot who never showed up. What was so fair about that?

That whole family never played fair, always looking for ways to chisel.
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SavageWombat Donating Member (187 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 10:55 AM
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1. Oh yeah
If a Republican is talking about "fairness", it means they're fighting AGAINST laws designed to level the playing field. They don't complain when the system is unfair in their favor.

Case in point - Affirmative Action. Can't have a school attempting to give a leg up to poor black kids - that's "unfair" to the sons of wealthy white people.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 02:35 PM
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9. Yup, those Pubs are so clever they think the masses cannot see their shit
but they can paint it white, they can make it smell good, but it still tasdtes like shit.

And those Pubs who lose at the gate, don't they get it?? They being used? And and many cases, abused??

Someone better get the Visine and some strong coffee.

Come, we go get coffee
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neuvocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 10:56 AM
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2. What about overtime?
That's bound to piss the unions off.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 03:01 PM
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13. Those union guys had better wake up
and smell the coffee.

No overtime?? WTF is that??

You would think with all the laborsaving devices we have, we should be working LESS not MORE.

But its a Pub world for sure if its not happening.

The American worker is being screwed big time and we are letting them get away with it because of the brainwashing by the PUBs.

Come, its time to vote those guys OUT
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 03:08 PM
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15. A lot of UAW members have voted repug in the past, but...
...Dubya's new overtime provision is gonna convert most of them.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 11:02 AM
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3. I wonder...
If he has spoken to The Dowager Empress Chao, regarding some of the things she has said to labor leaders, recently. Seems to be a subtle disconnect there.

Frankly, I think that this is a setup for selling the maladministration's erosion of pay and worker's rights. It will be sold as "doing our part to level the playing field". In other words, eroding worker's benefits and conditions to somewhere in the neighborhood of 3rd world status.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 02:43 PM
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12. Empress Chao is a token appointment, what she sez don't count for shit
its all in the plan of the PUB pysops.
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 11:13 AM
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4. Let's talk about fields, Mr. Bush
I worked in farm fields when I was young. Rows and rows of nice level fields. Fields of berries. Beans. Cucumbers.

That's where you learn about level playing fields, Mr. Bush. When you work in farm fields with migrant workers.

When you hear the "Grapes of Wrath" stories about people being forced to work for next-to-nothing by ruthless farmers who play one group of laborers against another. When you work side by side with old black women who talk of picking cotton back in Texas. When you work with Filipino or Mexican pickers and listen to the way the boss talks to them because he knows they don't understand English. When you meet homeless women and children living out of their cars while they earn a few dollars in a farm field. When you realize that the outhouse on the edge of the field is the only roof over some little kid's head, and that the only playing field he knows is one his parents and older siblings are toiling in.

That's a level playing field. And I don't suppose Bush would care to dirty his fine Texas boots walking out onto that field.

He makes me sick to my stomach.
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ignatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 12:03 PM
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7. I recently re-read The Grapes of Wrath to keep the effects of this
crappy economy fresh in my mind.

I read an article last week titled Waiting in the Food Line.

..snip.. The key issue is the working poor. Forty percent of the families in these lines have one parent working....

..snip.. Almost half the people fed by these lines are kids. The Agriculture Department figures that one in six children in America face hunger. That's more than 12 million kids....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/08/60II/main535732.shtml

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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 02:37 PM
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10. John Steinbeck's classic, Henry Fonds starred in the movie.
Read the book in 58

Very powerful indeed.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 03:14 PM
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16. Bush has those left hand hammers in his tool pouch
and left hand screwdrivers too.
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Fovea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 11:18 AM
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5. And he wants to get the field level
by a frantic race to the bottom in wages.
when we have no health care for workers at all.
when we have a huge prison labor force.
When American workers are making 1.50 an hour, then according to Bush, it will
be fair.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 02:40 PM
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11. Its all fair to his big boys who reap the bennies of a Maladministration
Haliburton, Carlyle, etc all making mucho big bucks off this war of his.

The Mil Ind Complx all making overtime and having much trouble going to the bank with tons of loot.

There is no fairness, no balance, if the amount of money spent on peace is not matching the Defense appropriations.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 11:32 AM
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6. kick him when he's down ?
Damn right! That's the way he plays the game. He ain't fooling nobody. Right-wing asshole!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 02:31 PM
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8. Part and Partial of the Pub Pysops Campaign to talk all kinds of shit
but when it comes to fairnes for those feild hands, those factory workers, those trade guys.....where is it. ??

The Pubs want a poor class, work for it, and now legislate it. Are we fucked or what??

Only one way out guys, we gatta get our asses off the ground and vote those Pubs OUT. Remember, its not only Bush but its his whole party. Somehow they all suck for the program of Conservatism cause they feed off it just like Sean and Rash and the rest of the Pub Goons.

But its the common guy who get his ass in a sling... only cause enough of them did not vote wisely. They must join us in a wave of rejection to the Pub agenda.

To suck for the Compassionate Conservative Brain Washing is to lose our future for our kids and ourselves. We lose they win....

If we want to win, we must defeat the Pub brainwashing and vote with the one party of hope, the Democratic Party/ Yes we have a few ass hole Dems but by no means don't let that hold you back from the Dem Party
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TheBigGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 03:04 PM
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14. looks like the "charm offensive" has begun
..the return of "Compassionate Conservatism" for the election season.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-02-03 03:15 PM
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17. Get those hip boots, the bullshit level is reaching record levels here.
The Bush and Gang are flooding the Nation with bullshit and its not a pretty sight.
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