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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on August 06, 2009, 04:49:32 PM
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The nation’s biggest labor unions are bringing their muscle to bear to the raucous health-care debates that have erupted over the last week in Congressional town hall meetings across the country.
John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, sent out a call to arms Thursday for rank-and-file members to counteract what he called the “right-wing ‘Tea Party Patriots’ †who have been disrupting the meetings.
And the Service Employees International Union, the nation’s largest union of health-care employees, is deploying its members to the meetings to “reclaim our democracy,†according to a statement. Referring to the colorful T-shirts that the union’s members wear at rallies, a spokeswoman said the union was “unleashing the purple people.â€
Organized labor’s engagement in the mounting clashes is the latest sign of the ferocity of the fight over the direction of any health-care overhaul. It is also the latest sign of how the debate is swelling toward the levels of a national political campaign.
Generally, the unions have supported President Obama’s desire to change the health-care system, even if they differ on some of the particulars. But it remains to be seen whether the unions will fully back the president’s final position. For now, they seem eager to fight on his behalf against the insurance companies and to try to staunch any sense that he is losing the war for public support.
“The question for us is, will we let them make health care ‘Obama’s Waterloo’ or will we make it the next big step in our march to turn around America?†Mr. Sweeney wrote in a memo, first reported by the Huffington Post.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/unions-joining-the-fray-in-health-care-overhaul/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Reclaim Democracy my @ss!
Liberals can't get their train wreck of a scheme passed in an honest and open way so they're calling in the hired goons to silence any opposing voices!
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Look for the union label..........that's your target. :fuelfire:
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The only reason the unions are backing this POS is that their insurance plans are being exempted from being taken over and from being taxed.
(you can interpret POS to mean 0Bama, the health care bill or both. )
ETA: Full disclosure: I'm in a union with insurance provided through negotiations. The insurance is open to change with each contract.
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This will get interesting. Can you see the images now, Union Thugs acting like bouncers to intimidate little old men and women.
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This will get interesting. Can you see the images now, Union Thugs acting like bouncers to intimidate little old men and women.
I can imagine it. But IMHO the Libtards are completely clueless about how badly this is going to blow up in their faces.
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I want it to backfire on them, too. You know, they could actually try to address these taxpayers reality-based concerns rathen than try to intimidate them into submission, but I guess that's not the Chicago way.
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I want it to backfire on them, too. You know, they could actually try to address these taxpayers reality-based concerns rathen than try to intimidate them into submission, but I guess that's not the Chicago way.
The Dems have all the levers of power...yet they cower in fear in the corner like scared mice at the very thought of people showing up at townhall meetings to disagree with what they are trying to do to us.
And instead of doing more than giving lipservice to a belief in the 1st Amendment...they bring in goons to intimidate people into silence.
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I guess it is only fair after the way the right sent out silencing squads to intimidate and suppress anti war protesters like code pink during the evil Bush regime.
Oh wait...nevermind. ::)
It really doesn`t take long to figure out which side of the political spectrum stands for and stands up for freedom and liberty and which side is but a few breaths away from oppression and authoritarianism.
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Liberal debating tactics...
Buckets of urine, slingshots, anti-bus weapons seized from anti-RNC protestors (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,12538.0.html)
Anarchists Attack RNC Buses in St. Paul (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,12675.0.html)
Union Thugs for Obama (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,5999.0.html)
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Liberal debating tactics...
Buckets of urine, slingshots, anti-bus weapons seized from anti-RNC protestors (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,12538.0.html)
Anarchists Attack RNC Buses in St. Paul (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,12675.0.html)
Union Thugs for Obama (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,5999.0.html)
One of the Anarchists at the RNC Convention that was busted for plotting to firebomb police cars was from my hometown.