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Old 09-21-2013, 03:59 PM
 
Location: Lahaina, Hi.
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If one is charged with a violation of that statute,
the person who files the charge will cause the defendant to be brought to court,
and the defendant has the right to defend themselves against the charges.





Were civics not taught in your high school?





No wonder Harrier is considering becoming a teacher, too many people graduate
ignorant about the laws of our republic.
The problem is not lack of civics teaching. It is lack of civics learning. Many kids today simply don't give a rat's a$$ about anything we present in the classroom setting. Certainly not those in the lower socioeconomic half.
By all means, try teaching. You can't possibly make the situation worse.

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Old 09-22-2013, 04:56 AM
bUU
 
Location: Florida
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Please name those policies.
Ronald Reagan's War on Labor (Labor) by Dick Meister
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Old 09-22-2013, 05:02 AM
 
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about dickmeister, "[SIZE=2]I am a San Francisco-based freelance writer."[/SIZE]
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Old 09-22-2013, 05:36 AM
bUU
 
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Thanks for the biographical note.

I hope you weren't posting that to distract attention away from the fact that Reagan broke PATCO and thereby set the tone for the dismantling of protections for unionized workers generally.

I hope you weren't posting that to distract attention away from the fact that Reagan stacked NLRB with officials inclined against what the NLRB was chartered to accomplish, as alluded to in Section 7(a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act.

I hope you weren't posting that to distract attention away from the fact that Reagan closed one-third of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's field offices, trimmed its staff by more than one-fourth and decreased the number of penalties assessed against employers by almost three-fourths.

I voted for Reagan. I implicitly liked where we were with regard to worker protection and economic justice back then. I didn't vote for Reagan to have him gut the system that was working well - the social safety net - but rather voted for him to fix just what was broken, runaway inflation, mostly based on how his "trickle-down" rhetoric appealed to the innate self-centeredness of youth I carried at the time. I didn't vote for Reagan to take actions so punitive to those most vulnerable in our society. I voted for Reagan because he said he knew how to lower taxes and how that would stimulate the economy to make up for the loss revenue. He didn't say he was going to engage in morally offensive callous disregard for those less fortunate, to make that happen. He deceived us. I was young, and stupid, and I believed his charismatic nonsense. I grew up. I became more intelligent and more considerate of others. Evidently, many others didn't. They bought-into Reagan's path to self-centeredness lock, stock and barrel. And they've gone on to double-down on his transgressions in that regard.

Right-wingers need to sit back and admit, at least to themselves, that the right-wing perspectives they worship are distinctly anti-poor, anti-worker, anti-anything-other-than-rich-and-powerful. I don't expect that right-wingers will magical wake up and suddenly become honest with themselves about this fact, this morning, specifically. But hopefully some day.

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Old 09-22-2013, 05:37 AM
 
Location: Better half of PA
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Legal handgun owners are not the people responsible for the murder rate.

Criminals are.
Not always, as evidenced by Newtown, DC last week, etc etc.
But the gun issue here on city data never gets old does it? Really, I find it boring and old news. The evil liberals aren't coming for your guns so give it a rest, even if for just a day or two.
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Old 09-22-2013, 06:02 AM
 
Location: Better half of PA
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By the way, I didn't say I was for gun control.
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Old 09-22-2013, 06:09 AM
 
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Thanks for the biographical note.

I hope you weren't posting that to distract attention away from the fact that Reagan broke PATCO and thereby set the tone for the dismantling of protections for unionized workers generally.

I hope you weren't posting that to distract attention away from the fact that Reagan stacked NLRB with officials inclined against what the NLRB was chartered to accomplish, as alluded to in Section 7(a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act.

I hope you weren't posting that to distract attention away from the fact that Reagan closed one-third of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's field offices, trimmed its staff by more than one-fourth and decreased the number of penalties assessed against employers by almost three-fourths.

I voted for Reagan. I implicitly liked where we were with regard to worker protection and economic justice back then. I didn't vote for Reagan to have him gut the system that was working well - the social safety net - but rather voted for him to fix just what was broken, runaway inflation, mostly based on how his "trickle-down" rhetoric appealed to the innate self-centeredness of youth I carried at the time. I didn't vote for Reagan to take actions so punitive to those most vulnerable in our society. I voted for Reagan because he said he knew how to lower taxes and how that would stimulate the economy to make up for the loss revenue. He didn't say he was going to engage in morally offensive callous disregard for those less fortunate, to make that happen. He deceived us. I was young, and stupid, and I believed his charismatic nonsense. I grew up. I became more intelligent and more considerate of others. Evidently, many others didn't. They bought-into Reagan's path to self-centeredness lock, stock and barrel. And they've gone on to double-down on his transgressions in that regard.

Right-wingers need to sit back and admit, at least to themselves, that the right-wing perspectives they worship are distinctly anti-poor, anti-worker, anti-anything-other-than-rich-and-powerful. I don't expect that right-wingers will magical wake up and suddenly become honest with themselves about this fact, this morning, specifically. But hopefully some day.
Well, we see the marvels of leftie policies in action!
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Old 09-22-2013, 06:10 AM
 
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Not always, as evidenced by Newtown, DC last week, etc etc.
But the gun issue here on city data never gets old does it? Really, I find it boring and old news. The evil liberals aren't coming for your guns so give it a rest, even if for just a day or two.
Yet, here you are.
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Old 09-22-2013, 06:14 AM
 
Location: Better half of PA
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Yet, here you are.
Yep. Here I am. I'm boring too.
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Old 09-22-2013, 06:17 AM
 
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Thanks for the biographical note.

I hope you weren't posting that to distract attention away from the fact that Reagan broke PATCO and thereby set the tone for the dismantling of protections for unionized workers generally.

I hope you weren't posting that to distract attention away from the fact that Reagan stacked NLRB with officials inclined against what the NLRB was chartered to accomplish, as alluded to in Section 7(a) of the National Industrial Recovery Act.

I hope you weren't posting that to distract attention away from the fact that Reagan closed one-third of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's field offices, trimmed its staff by more than one-fourth and decreased the number of penalties assessed against employers by almost three-fourths.

I voted for Reagan. I implicitly liked where we were with regard to worker protection and economic justice back then. I didn't vote for Reagan to have him gut the system that was working well - the social safety net - but rather voted for him to fix just what was broken, runaway inflation, mostly based on how his "trickle-down" rhetoric appealed to the innate self-centeredness of youth I carried at the time. I didn't vote for Reagan to take actions so punitive to those most vulnerable in our society. I voted for Reagan because he said he knew how to lower taxes and how that would stimulate the economy to make up for the loss revenue. He didn't say he was going to engage in morally offensive callous disregard for those less fortunate, to make that happen. He deceived us. I was young, and stupid, and I believed his charismatic nonsense. I grew up. I became more intelligent and more considerate of others. Evidently, many others didn't. They bought-into Reagan's path to self-centeredness lock, stock and barrel. And they've gone on to double-down on his transgressions in that regard.

Right-wingers need to sit back and admit, at least to themselves, that the right-wing perspectives they worship are distinctly anti-poor, anti-worker, anti-anything-other-than-rich-and-powerful. I don't expect that right-wingers will magical wake up and suddenly become honest with themselves about this fact, this morning, specifically. But hopefully some day.
I hope you aren't claiming that the democrats love the working class. if they did, they'd deport about 20,000,000 people that I can think of. want an instant raise? have more jobs than people. p.s. I am not a big reagan fan.
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