Getting slapped around is how they know Obama really loves them

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Better Believe It  (1000+ posts)         Wed May-25-11 12:19 PM
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General Electric to Union Workers: Drop Dead 

GE to Unions: Drop Dead
By Alexandra Brown
May 24, 2011

Flush with cash and celebrated at the White House, GE said the company would still seek to double workers' costs for health insurance and eliminate new hires' pensions. Bargaining opened today in New York.

The four-year national contract expires June 19. Contract talks come as GE has cut its U.S. workforce by 20 percent since 2004. The company has shed 32,000 jobs by closing plants, such as the many incandescent bulb plants replaced by compact fluorescent bulb plants in China.

In just 2009-2010 GE closed 27 U.S. locations. The result was that by 2010 only 15,000 workers were left in the 10 unions united in the GE Coordinated Bargaining Committee.

But wait—isn’t this the same GE whose CEO is President Obama’s “jobs czar”? In January Jeffrey Immelt was picked to head a presidential council whose goal, Obama said, is to “get the American people back to work.”

Read the full article at:

http://labornotes.org/2011/05/ge-unions-drop-dead 

Let's see:

* Bloated on actual tax payer subsidies in ways oil companies could only dream about
* Jacking-up on health care costs to union workers
* AFTER getting a waiver from ObamaCare
* Outsourcing jobs to foreign workers

Everything DUmbasses claim to despise in crony capitalism.

And yet they will still vote for Obama.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1171183

Weird there hasn't been a peep about this on MSNBC.

[Rebel]

 
HA HA!

[Ralph Wiggum]

The DUmmies are suffering with battered wife's syndrome.  No matter how much 0bama slaps them around, they'll still support him.

[Rebel]

The DUmmies are suffering with battered wife's syndrome.  No matter how much 0bama slaps them around, they'll still support him.

[Skul]

Just noted a couple things right off the bat.

Better Believe It  (1000+ posts)         Wed May-25-11 12:19 PM
Original message
General Electric to Union Workers: Drop Dead  

GE to Unions: Drop Dead
By Alexandra Brown
May 24, 2011

Flush with cash and celebrated at the White House, GE said the company would still seek to double workers' costs for health insurance and eliminate new hires' pensions. Bargaining opened today in New York.

The four-year national contract expires June 19. Contract talks come as GE has cut its U.S. workforce by 20 percent since 2004. The company has shed 32,000 jobs by closing plants, such as the many incandescent bulb plants replaced by compact fluorescent bulb plants in China.In just 2009-2010 GE closed 27 U.S. locations. The result was that by 2010 only 15,000 workers were left in the 10 unions united in the GE Coordinated Bargaining Committee.
But wait—isn’t this the same GE whose CEO is President Obama’s “jobs czar”? In January Jeffrey Immelt was picked to head a presidential council whose goal, Obama said, is to “get the American people back to work.”

Read the full article at:

http://labornotes.org/2011/05/ge-unions-drop-dead  

The company has shed 32,000 jobs by closing plants, such as the many incandescent bulb plants replaced by compact fluorescent bulb plants in China.

Well, according to you people, those evil carbon heavy incandescent bulbs are destroying mother ghia, so what's the problem?

The result was that by 2010 only 15,000 workers were left in the 10 unions united in the GE Coordinated Bargaining Committee.

Hmm, I think I see the problem.
Paying a US union filament winder twenty bucks an hour, as opposed to a non-union (Chinese) filament winder two bucks an hour.  If that.

[Tantal]

Not even a campfire. More like a struggling candle, that thread. They're like the abused woman afraid to call the cops because she's afraid the beatings will get worse.

[Rebel]

---LURKING DUMMIES: PLEASE READ FROM YOUR OWN BOARD---

Addition to Skul's post:


http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/331

#10 Michelle Bachmann anti-environment batshit crazy

And finally, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, fluorescent bulbs "Last up to 10 times longer" than traditional incandescents, "use about one-fourth the energy," "produce 90% less heat, while producing more light per watt," and "save $25 to $45 over the life of the bulb." Which is why the government plans to phase out incandescent bulbs over the next 12 years.

But not so fast! Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) has other plans. According to the Associated Press:

"The Minnesota Republican has introduced the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act." The legislation would repeal the national phase-out of conventional incandescent light bulbs.

Bachmann said the government shouldn't tell people what kinds of light bulbs they can use. "

Damn straight! This is America, and while people obviously shouldn't have the freedom to choose to, I dunno, marry someone of their own gender, or smoke marijuana, they have the right - no, the responsibility - to suck down as much electricity as they possibly can. After all, America is the number one consumer of electricity in the world. We're number one! We're number one! But if we stop using incandescent light bulbs, we may soon be overtaken by the Chinese. And if that happens, well, we might as well just surrender to the terrorists.

As a protest against this disgraceful un-American travesty, we hear that Rep. Bachmann intends to fill her car with leaded gasoline and drive to the local hardware store where she will pick up some CFC-producing aerosol cans of lead spray paint in order to redecorate her asbestos-lined office.

The Top 10 will return in two weeks, on April 14. See you then!

-- EarlG

From your fellow NON-American Admin, EarlG.


Here are two OTHER threads by you goons praising the banning of incandescent lights:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1825305&mesg_id=1826195

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4334423




So sit down, and shut the **** up, you idiots.  

[Skul]

What Rebel said. 
Eat it, DUmmies.

[chitownchica]

I was in Home Depot the other day and a lady was talking to an employee about 100 watt incandescent bulbs. She was talking about how they would be unavailable after a certain date. The employee knew nothing about it and asked why.  She said he should ask Obama about that.

Sounds like a bouncy, but no cops jumped out of the bushes, and I didn't force anyone to change political parties.

[BEG]

"The Minnesota Republican has introduced the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act." The legislation would repeal the national phase-out of conventional incandescent light bulbs.

Bachmann said the government shouldn't tell people what kinds of light bulbs they can use. "

I swear she could win on that issue alone.

[Karin]

Wonder what that presidential council on jobs that Imelt is heading up has done.  Probably just had some real nice dinners.  Cocktail hour first.  And got paid what for their efforts? 

We've all been on "task forces," we know what happens.  Hemmin-and-hawin, posturing, ego-stroking. 

[BlueStateSaint]

We've all been on "task forces," we know what happens.  Hemmin-and-hawin, posturing, ego-stroking. 

Something is being stroked.

[thundley4]

Just remember, this was a ban pushed through by the Dems in congress and signed by President Bush.  It was just another of his mistakes made while trying to appease the left.

[DumbAss Tanker]

DU, Obama's bitches.

[miskie]

I swear she could win on that issue alone.

Indeed - Considering the sheer volume of poisonous substances contained within a CFL, one would think the primitives would be as afraid of them as they are nuclear power. But they aren't - because Obama says they are good.

[jukin]

They told me that if I voted for Juan McCain there would be an exodus of union jobs.

[Skul]

Obamessiah parted the Incandesent Sea, leading the unwashed with a flourescent pillar of rainbows.

[Boudicca]

The DUmmies are suffering with battered wife's syndrome.  No matter how much 0bama slaps them around, they'll still support him.

Because if they don't support him they are the racists they've been waiting willing to call us.