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Offline thundley4

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How dare you have it better than me.
« on: February 21, 2011, 09:26:10 PM »
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I hear this an awful lot.

"I have to pay my own health care premiums. What makes union workers think they deserve full paid healthcare?"
"I'll never be able to retire. What makes union workers think they deserve a pension?"


Will someone please figure out how to explain to these bozos that union workers think EVERYONE deserves decent benefits and a retirement with dignity?

Will someone please figure out how to explain to these bozos that union workers have always fought for EVERYONE, not just themselves?

Will someone please figure out how to explain to these bozos that they should be next to the union guy fighting for better benefits?


That is all.
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Most of what follows the OP is DUmmies defending the public unions getting rich on the backs of tax payers.  None of them seem to see the irony of their envious attitudes towards the rich who do NOT take money from tax payers.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2011, 09:35:43 PM »
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How dare you have it better than me

Is that what the DU rants about everyday when it comes to the rich?

My tax dollars aren't funding the rich but they fund union workers in my state.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2011, 09:51:52 PM »
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32. what happens when we tax payers don't support worker's rights?
   
exactly....if you aren't selfish, you begin to see the value in a working class that CAN protect itself from selfishly blind business owners. I believe in a fair system... you don't. You'd rather unions not exist at all, and then what do workers do? What we pay in taxes for public infrastructure is being obviously ignored in your post. Since Unions have started losing strength in this country till now, we see a decline in the middle class and we see a decline in our economy as well.

". . . selfishly blind business owners" have jack shit to do with public unions, aside from funding them through taxes.  I love it when dummies talk about fair.  Fair is the equal application of the law.  Fair is represented by the blindfolded statue with the scales.  The DU version of the statue would have Clinton copping a feel and Jesse Jackson tilting the scales.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2011, 10:04:43 PM »
Quote from: Dongus on February 21, 2011, 09:51:52 PM
". . . selfishly blind business owners" have jack shit to do with public unions, aside from funding them through taxes.  I love it when dummies talk about fair.  Fair is the equal application of the law.  Fair is represented by the blindfolded statue with the scales.  The DU version of the statue would have Clinton copping a feel and Jesse Jackson tilting the scales.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2011, 10:42:53 PM »
Anyone send up the bobo signal?
She is homeless you know.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2011, 10:46:20 PM »
Quote from: AprilRazz on February 21, 2011, 10:42:53 PM
Anyone send up the bobo signal?
She is homeless you know.

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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2011, 10:47:44 PM »
Irony is lost on DUmmies.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2011, 10:51:59 PM »
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9. Tried to explain all this years ago and all everyone wanted to talk about was their non-union Hondas
   
Needless to say my Union didn't receive a lot of support around here.

Remember?

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LOL  Subaru, Honda, and Toyota are all non-union, and they all manufacture cars in the US.  Oddly, they all are in the top 5 in reliability.  Do we need to be reminded where GM, Ford, and Chrysler rank?  What do they have in common? At least Chrysler employees have fun on their lunch breaks. 
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2011, 12:18:48 AM »
Wonder how many union employee, especially the public kind, have to take mandatory drug tests?

We could probably weed out a hell of a lot of these leeches! ( pun definitely intended! )
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2011, 12:26:02 AM »
Fail to pay your union dues for a couple of sittings and get back to me on the whole "everyone" thing.

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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2011, 05:46:58 AM »
I find it funny the same unions who helped Obama shove Obamacare down our throats all get a waiver from having to follow it. Yep those unions really are looking out for us.  :mental:
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2011, 06:57:13 AM »
I have a short rant about unions:

I despise them!  AFGE, NAGE are at the top of my most hated list.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2011, 07:42:00 AM »
RE the OP:  EVERYONE.  Really?  Doesn't fly, no matter how many dopey internet posts you make.  Try being a salaried person in a union plant.  Even a $22K lowly entry level accountant.  They hate you and vilify you, sneer at you, and leer at you.  "****in salary help" is how they refer to you.  As if they're somehow victimized by you, while they bring down $85K per year.  EVERYONE my ass. 
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2011, 08:14:37 AM »
Quote from: Karin on February 22, 2011, 07:42:00 AM
RE the OP:  EVERYONE.  Really?  Doesn't fly, no matter how many dopey internet posts you make.  Try being a salaried person in a union plant.  Even a $22K lowly entry level accountant.  They hate you and vilify you, sneer at you, and leer at you.  "****in salary help" is how they refer to you.  As if they're somehow victimized by you, while they bring down $85K per year.  EVERYONE my ass. 

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I've had a rant in my head for days about these union-supporting a-holes.  Don't know if I'll ever get around to typing it, but a H5 for typing my sentiments Karin.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2011, 08:18:42 AM »
I find it funny if you work your butt off starting a business, working long hours to build that business, and after several years you make a lot of money, somehow that is, ill gains off the back of the poor. Yet if you collect dues from working people that is earned money.


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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2011, 09:20:33 AM »
When we moved to CA and my husband had to set up his office he decided to hang his pictures on the wall. He was told he had to call and make an appointment to have his pictures hung by the custodial dept. He called and waited...and waited (for days) then decided to do it himself. Someone must of seen him doing it because union picture hanger guy walked in as he was getting ready to hang them.

The guy got so mad at him, said "what, you wanna take food out of my kids mouths?". He then told my husband that he was not to put one nail in a wall or move anything himself that that was his job.  He went on and on about it. 

The company that my husband works for is a company everyone here would recognize. The only union people they have anymore are custodial type workers and that is about to go because they want to be paid a liberals "living wage" for hanging pictures when they finally get around to it.

The company hires non union writers when ever they can because the writers union is getting almost as ridiculous as SEIU these days. They are cutting off their nose to spite their face. 
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2011, 09:24:53 AM »
Quote from: BEG on February 22, 2011, 09:20:33 AM
When we moved to CA and my husband had to set up his office he decided to hang his pictures on the wall. He was told he had to call and make an appointment to have his pictures hung by the custodial dept. He called and waited...and waited (for days) then decided to do it himself. Someone must of seen him doing it because union picture hanger guy walked in as he was getting ready to hang them.

The guy got so mad at him, said "what, you wanna take food out of my kids mouths?". He then told my husband that he was not to put one nail in a wall or move anything himself that that was his job.  He went on and on about it.

Ridiculous.  But not surprising.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2011, 09:39:08 AM »
The only people I hear oozing with jealousy about what other people earn and own are liberals.  I've never heard anyone remotely conservative complain about what someone else has.  Go figure.

From my time at FoMoCo, we had to have a union electrician on hand to plug in printers and computers.  We moved them around, set them up, and supported them, but if you touched an electrical outlet, you got a sermon from one of the brothers on the Godliness of the union and how we would all be wearing sackcloth and eating dirt if it wasn't for them.  :whatever:
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #18 on: February 22, 2011, 09:52:25 AM »
Quote from: chris_ on February 22, 2011, 09:39:08 AM
The only people I hear oozing with jealousy about what other people earn and own are liberals.  I've never heard anyone remotely conservative complain about what someone else has.  Go figure.

From my time at FoMoCo, we had to have a union electrician on hand to plug in printers and computers.  We moved them around, set them up, and supported them, but if you touched an electrical outlet, you got a sermon from one of the brothers on the Godliness of the union and how we would all be wearing sackcloth and eating dirt if it wasn't for them.  :whatever:

Chicago had a problem with unions driving out conventions, but I think they finally passed some regulations limiting the requirements for union work at hotels and places like that.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2011, 10:49:07 AM »
Quote from: Dongus on February 21, 2011, 09:51:52 PM
". . . selfishly blind business owners" have jack shit to do with public unions, aside from funding them through taxes.  I love it when dummies talk about fair.  Fair is the equal application of the law.  Fair is represented by the blindfolded statue with the scales.  The DU version of the statue would have Clinton copping a feel and Jesse Jackson tilting the scales.
We should also add that the public employee union leaders that take their pay based on the amount of tax money being siphoned out the economy are NOT elected by the public that must pay the taxes that support their salaries and vacations. Yet, these union leaders can demand the pols give them pay raises with bribes campaign contributions or the threat of a loss of services. If the tax increases do get enacted then the unions are using the power of the state to compel by force. Any ordinary Joe that refuses either A) goes to jail B) loses his home and business C) loses the services monopolized by the union or D) all the above.

At least private sector employees have a vested interest to see their employer succeed although all monopolies--even monopolies on labor--are bad for competition.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2011, 11:53:23 AM »
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts)           Sun Feb-20-11 10:03 AM
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I hear this an awful lot.

"I have to pay my own health care premiums. What makes union workers think they deserve full paid healthcare?"
"I'll never be able to retire. What makes union workers think they deserve a pension?"


Will someone please figure out how to explain to these bozos that union workers think EVERYONE deserves decent benefits and a retirement with dignity?

Will someone please figure out how to explain to these bozos that union workers have always fought for EVERYONE, not just themselves?

Will someone please figure out how to explain to these bozos that they should be next to the union guy fighting for better benefits?


That is all.

Smiley, you are absolutely correct. Every-single-person-in-this-country should be in a Union, gettting the all the benefits the public.............................oh, wait................
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« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2011, 11:56:15 AM »
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Will someone please figure out how to explain to these bozos that union workers have always fought for EVERYONE, not just themselves?

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The unions are all in it for THEMSELVES.  They don't care about non-union people AT ALL.
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Re: How dare you have it better than me.
« Reply #22 on: February 22, 2011, 11:56:15 AM »
Quote from: Freeper on February 22, 2011, 05:46:58 AM
I find it funny the same unions who helped Obama shove Obamacare down our throats all get a waiver from having to follow it. Yep those unions really are looking out for us.  :mental:

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