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Old 06-13-2011, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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Just what we need to solve our problems - a president deciding which unionized companies to save and which non-unionized companies to let go under. That's what the constitution says a president is supposed to do, right?
Millions of Americans can go to hell if they're a part of union(s)? Being out of touch with the reality is fine, as long as you're not the one making decisions.
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Old 06-13-2011, 08:32 AM
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Millions of Americans can go to hell if they're a part of union(s)? Being out of touch with the reality is fine, as long as you're not the one making decisions.
And that pretty much sums up why things AREN'T so fine, doesn't it?
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Old 06-13-2011, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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And that pretty much sums up why things AREN'T so fine, doesn't it?
Nope. Ideological stubbornness does not make for a good decision-maker.
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Old 06-13-2011, 09:53 AM
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Nope. Ideological stubbornness does not make for a good decision-maker.
Exactly, but unfortunately that's what we're stuck with until 2012.
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Old 06-13-2011, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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Exactly, but unfortunately that's what we're stuck with until 2012.
Based on my previous post(s), you would be one of those I was speaking of.
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Old 06-16-2011, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Millions of Americans can go to hell if they're a part of union(s)? Being out of touch with the reality is fine, as long as you're not the one making decisions.
Excuse me? Why would they go to hell...or anywhere else? Do they need a union in order to work? Are they going to all of a sudden lose their job because the apparatus of the corrupt union is no more?
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Old 06-16-2011, 10:46 PM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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On top of the fact that unions have a nonstop history of corruption and murder that would make everybody from Vito Corleone to Jimmy Hoffa to Tony Soprano extremely jealous, and are state-of-the-art job and municipality killing machines, a la Detroit?
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Old 06-17-2011, 02:10 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Millions of Americans can go to hell if they're a part of union(s)? Being out of touch with the reality is fine, as long as you're not the one making decisions.
Government managing the economy is what got us into this mess and is what stops us from being more successful. Government does not create jobs. It creates debt.
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Old 06-17-2011, 06:30 AM
 
Location: Long Island, NY
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On top of the fact that unions have a nonstop history of corruption and murder that would make everybody from Vito Corleone to Jimmy Hoffa to Tony Soprano extremely jealous, and are state-of-the-art job and municipality killing machines, a la Detroit?
You clearly don't know labor history. Business owners used to (and maybe still do) hire thugs to murder and intimidate workers who would try to organize.

In addition, they bribed mayors who would send the police to use violence against union activists.

But the entire argument that unions have anything to do with today's unemployment is baseless. There was lower unemployment when union membership was higher.
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Old 06-17-2011, 08:16 AM
 
Location: The land where cats rule
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You clearly don't know labor history. Business owners used to (and maybe still do) hire thugs to murder and intimidate workers who would try to organize.

In addition, they bribed mayors who would send the police to use violence against union activists.

But the entire argument that unions have anything to do with today's unemployment is baseless. There was lower unemployment when union membership was higher.
Do you live in the land of "opposite of truth"?

Your precious unions have never done anything questionable or illegal?

Try for once to be truthful.
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