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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 03:43 AM
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My Opinion, I think the resistance by Bush in bailing out the auto industry
is his last chance to forever bust the UAW and therefore bust Unions for good. Why else would he have thrown so much money at his buddies on Wall Street but doesn't want to help us on Main Street??? You bust the UAW, the Teamsters go next and everyone tumbles because "we (the Unions) need to make sacrifices".



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The Wielding Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 03:52 AM
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1. I don't think he thinks of that, at all. I think the money has to be
skimmed off for his friends benefit. He has no interest in the working class or our democracy. If he can break another union it's just a by product of the big money theft to his friends and benefactors.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 03:56 AM
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3. His 'advisor's' (Big Dick) are telling him this would make him a hero forever
among 'true' Conservatives. The ONE policy I remember above all others of Ronnie Raygun his his destruction of the air traffic controllers Union in the 80's, which started the decline of Unions in this country to the point it is today. I'm sorry, but I truly think it's part of the plan.
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The Wielding Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 04:52 AM
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6. okay you may be correct
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 02:17 AM
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13. Personally, I mark the beginning of the decline for unions with the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act.
That was something Truman was against, but the conservatives held enough seats to override his veto. Post-Taft-Hartley, rates of unionization actually leveled off and started a slow decline by the end of the 1960s going into the 1970s. With the 1980s, the decline increased in speed well into the 1990s and into today.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 03:55 AM
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2. There's nothing in it for him and his friends. He's using it to bargain for Columbia Free Trade.
Who knows why he is trying to push through the Columbia Free Trade deal, but you know there's money in it for the Bush crime family.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 04:00 AM
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4. The Colombians are another Union unfriendly country.
Sorry again, but this makes more sense after watching Unions struggle for the past 25 years. It's the death blow. GM and Ford go bankrupt, all the Union members are fired and re-hired at way less than prevailing wage and minimal benefits.

All too common today. American Axle did it to us, threatened bankruptcy, re-negotiated our contract, than closed most of their American plants and moved production to Mexico and Asia.
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 04:01 AM
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5. Nice legacy, dickhead!
What a fucking turd. :eyes:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 01:44 AM
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11. Did you know you can polish turds?
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 04:55 AM
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7. The first thing I thought...
Bush wants to be remembered as a bigger union buster than Reagan. That really impresses his real base the wealthy 2%.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 09:56 AM
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9. To Booshe, those are his base, those he enriched during his terms
One day, long after I've gone, the truth about this dirt bag will come out. But for America it will be too late.
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kristopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 05:22 AM
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8. I agree completely. nt
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 11:39 AM
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10. For all the 'Progressives' who support Union Blue Collar jobs
(the few of you here) BUMPITY BUMP BUMP
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 01:47 AM
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12. Part or the plan, why they keep pushing the unions busted the big three
so no need for that tinfoil

You are not paranoid, they are out to get labor
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