Hiroshima and Detroit: 64 Years Later

Take a look at what 50 years of corrupt Democrat politics and powerful union domination can do to thriving economy.  What makes it worse is that people of this city aren't willing to do anything about it.

http://yougottobekidding.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/hiroshima-and-detroit-64-years-later/

 This could happen to many other cities unless we speak our voices to stop unions from buying our corrupt politicians.
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THOSE CRAZY TEACHERS UNIONS...

...no wonder Obama supports them so much.


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UNION MEMBERS SHOULD START THEIR OWN TEA PARTY!

 Big Labor, Not Tea Party, Is Workers' Worst Enemy

Michelle Malkin...Wed, Sep, 29, 2010

The Service Employees International Union plans to send 25,000 rank-and-file workers on 500 buses to Washington this weekend to protest the tea party movement, Republicans and Fox News. If SEIU members had any sense, they'd be demonstrating at their own bosses' D.C. headquarters. It's the Big Labor Left, not the Tea Party Right, that is flushing rank-and-file union workers' hard-earned dues down the collective toilet in these hard times.
The co-organizer of the so-called "One Nation" protest by a coalition of progressive groups is George Gresham, president of the behemoth SEIU Local 1199 based in New York. (This is the same SEIU affiliate that employed current Obama domestic policy adviser Patrick Gaspard as chief lobbyist for nine years.) Peeved by all the attention that grassroots conservatives and limited government activists have received over the past year, Gresham spearheaded the rally plans earlier this summer to "counter the Tea Party narrative" and reclaim the voice for "working people." Perhaps Gresham should pay more attention to his workers' pensions than to tea party leaders' media appearances.
SEIU Local 1199's Upstate Pension Fund has plunged from 115 percent funded in 1999 to 75 percent funded, and its Greater New York Pension Fund was funded at only 58 percent of its future obligations as of 2007, according to Hudson Institute analyst Diana Furchtgott-Roth. The union fat cats blame Wall Street. But while the pensions of SEIU workers nationwide are in "endangered status," the pensions of SEIU top brass have been protected and remain fully funded.
The D.C.-based Alliance for Worker Freedom, which monitors labor union abuses, reported last year that 13 major local SEIU pension funds are in serious financial jeopardy. Indeed, fewer than one in every 160 union-represented workers is covered by a union pension with required assets. Local 1199 workers -- already subject to wage freezes to salvage their pensions -- might want to know how their leaders were able to pony up $1 million for Haiti earthquake relief in January while their retirement funds wither on the vine.
SEIU leaders have shown a special talent for squandering their workers' dues. They poured $10 million down the drain in Arkansas on a failed bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. They spent $10 million on a nasty lawsuit against a competing union in California. They've burned through union dues to transport SEIU radicals to bully bank execs and their families at their private homes and to bus workers to Arizona to protest crackdowns on illegal aliens, who depress the wages of law-abiding working-class Americans.
Under former Purple Army Chief Andy Stern, the union's liabilities skyrocketed from $7.6 million to nearly $121 million. Stern burned through $61 million to put Barack Obama and the Democratic ruling majority in place. And before abruptly stepping down in April, he installed a cadre of labor management stooges embroiled in financial scandals across the country.
One of them, Stern protege and former SEIU national Vice President Tyrone Freeman, remains under FBI investigation for siphoning off hundreds of thousands of dollars in dues money for his personal enrichment and pleasure. The Los Angeles Times uncovered schemes that ranged from piping $600,000 in union contracts to his wife's video production and entertainment ventures to paying his mother-in-law $8,000 a month to babysit his daughter and other union employees' children to footing a $13,000 bill for membership at a Beverly Hills cigar club.
Another Stern underling, former SEIU leader Alejandro Stephens, is under FBI investigation, the LA Times reported this week, for $150,000 in consulting fees paid "under a confidential agreement" signed by Stern. The feds allege the money funded a no-show job for Stephens. While probing the smelly deal, the feds also stumbled upon a cozy agreement by SEIU executives to shell out $80,000 to promote a book Stern wrote in 2006. The SEIU may not have been looking after rank-and-file workers, but Stern made sure the SEIU was looking after him.
Now, Stern's profligate successors will steer an estimated $44 million in union worker dues into Democratic coffers this November -- all in the name of defeating right-wing enemies of the working people. Perhaps it's time for rank-and-file workers to stage a tea party of their own.
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THE FINANCIAL REFORM BILL: POLITICIANS ARE THE PROBLEM

Chris Dodd, who with his fellow a-hole, Barney Frank, led the Fannie Mae and Fredie Mac debacle (and its subsequent destruction of the economy), had this to say on the Financial Reform bill which congress passed last week.

"It is not a perfect bill; I will be the first to admit that. We don't know ultimately how well the ideas we've incorporated here will achieve the results we desire. It will take the next economic crisis, as certainly it will come, to determine whether or not the provisions of this bill will actually provide this generation or the next generation of regulators with the tools necessary to minimize the effects of that crisis when it happens."

How freakin' stupid is that!  That reminiscent of Nancy Pelosi's comment about ObamaCare: "We have to pass the bill in order to find out what's in it!"  What's with these people?  They are shackling this country with legislation that they haven't even read...nor do they understand?  WTF!

Dodd, who should be in jail for malfeasance in office, is the guy charged with the task of saving our economy from any future crisis?  WHAT?  I repeat: WTF!  We're going to have to wait for another economic crisis to find out whether or not this financial reform bill the Democrats passed yesterday is going to work? And if it doesn't taxpayers will again have to foot the bill for Democratic travesty.  And can anyone explain why car dealers who make auto loans, and the payroll loan industry were exempted? Perhaps they had stronger lobbyists!

The bill, according to inside reports, was written by career politicians, lobbyists and staff who have virtually no real world experience in business or investing and who, in many cases, are beholden to special interests. Few members of Congress read the 2,300 page bill before voting on it and fewer  understand its implications.

What the hell has become of so many of our elected officials?  They have become nothing more than Democrat whores and puppets of unions and lobbyists; their only priority in Washington is to get themselves re-elected, and use taxpayers dollars to do so.

Neal Boortz reported that according to a recent Gallup Poll it was found that Americans now believe that government and politicians are bigger problems for the country than illegal immigration, health care, disaster response or even the federal debt. They're right. Politicians. Government. These people are the problem .. they are not the solution, nor, for the most part, do they have the solutions. The problem is that these politicians have the executive power of government to enforce their "policies" and "solutions" on the people. And it takes a really large, huge ego to even run for office, let alone serve in Washington. So these big egos are going to use their precious government police power to implement policies that will get THEM the credit for trying to create jobs. Their egos are so overblown that they find it impossible to believe that someone else out there - an entrepreneur, a business owner, an investor - could do a better job of creating job than them .. after all, they were elected by the people to go to Washington and solve their problems! But that leads back to the Gallup poll .. these politicians are so full of themselves that they can't even realize that THEY are the problem. They are so set on being the ones to get the credit for saving this economy that they are willing to let businesses and worker suffer, just so they can say they tried. If they succeeded, that would be great. But they aren't. So move over, get out of the way and let the private sector do what the private sector does best!

I really, really feel sorry for the future of our country when so many dumbassocrat voters keep re-electing these progressive liberals to office to burden us with more legislative chains around our necks.  THIS IS ANOTHER CLEAR CUT ARGUMENT FOR TERM LIMITS.  Pray to God that the November election will be the first step to recovery.
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MORE PROOF OF HOW UNIONS HAVE DEMOCRATS IN THEIR HIP POCKETS

Near midnight this past Thursday, Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Big Labor apologists in the U.S. House of Representatives disgracefully amended pending war funding legislation to include the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill.

And this was no accident or last-minute decision. Further, she wasn't acting on her own.  It was reported that the union-label House leadership had just days before met behind closed doors with Big Labor's high command, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee, CWA President Larry Cohen, and IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger.

Knowing the widespread opposition to their union boss power grab, the union barons demanded their allies in the House sneak the dangerous bill into a "must pass vehicle." Nancy Pelosi was happy to oblige her Big Labor masters.  As you know, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been itching to ram through this bill for weeks, but outcry delayed his efforts before the Senate adjourned for Independence Day.

And now that Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining has made it through the House (albeit through desperate tactics), the battle in the Senate will be more crucial than ever.  Because of the November elections time is running out for Big Labor. But as we saw this week, the union bosses will do whatever it takes to strengthen their grip on hardworking Americans.

That's why we must stay vigilant.  If you haven't already, please call or fax your Senators demanding they oppose Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining.  STOP THIS UNION TAKEOVER OF OUR LIVES!
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EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS AND WATCH THE VIDEO

A lot of skepticism has been strung out against the Obama administration, some of it false and some of it warranted.  I don't know that anyone has the capabilities to look into someone's brain and think they can predict where they are going accurately, but Root seems to have a pretty good insight and thoughts on it. Much of what he says has or is happening, the rest is up in the air for speculation...
 
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Overwhelm the system 

Wayne Allyn Root is an American politician, entrepreneur, television and radio personality, best-selling author and political commentator.  His political talk radio show,W.A.R: The Wayne Allyn Root Show is broadcast in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago.

 

Barack Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.
 
Barack Obama is my college classmate ( Columbia University , class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University . They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
 
-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care.  It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,0 00 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?
 
-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."
 
-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
 
-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new cit izens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America . But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government.  Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.
 
-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America . The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.
 
-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
 
With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
 
Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.

 

To see how the Cloward and Piven Plan has impacted the USA prior to the Obama administration click on the below

 

 http://apathetic-usa.com/  

Watch it all since at the end it explains the difference between - Liberal and Leftist......

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THE OBAMA, DEMOCRAT, UNION CABAL EXPOSED

According to Neal Boortz, it's no secret that the labor unions are disappointed with Barack Obama and the Democrats. One of the many reasons is because of their failure to pass the Unionization-by-intimidation (card check) legislation. But even if the Obama administration can't deliver on card check, they will find a way to appease the unions. After all ... Obama and the Democrats know who got them elected.

Ever heard of something called the National Mediation Board? It's a three-member panel established during the days of FDR. It was originally created in order to mediate labor-management disputes in the railroad industry. But like any good government creation, it grew. Its powers grew. Its regulatory purview expanded. As this board currently stands, two of the three members are former union officials.

So now the Obama administration is apparently pushing for new arbitration rules. These rules would help unions to gain a representation certificate so long as it wins any representation election. It doesn't have to be an vote of all the workers ... just some small group will do. Here's how the National Right to Work Foundation describes it ...

"The new procedure would stack the deck in favor of unionization by granting a union monopoly bargaining power over workers if the union 'wins' an election, no matter how few eligible workers actually participate in the vote. In fact, this means that a small bloc of workers could force union boss 'representation' on the whole group as opposed to a true majority of all workers deciding for themselves."
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