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> Dennis wrote:
>>
>> "SgtMinor" <Sarge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Dennis wrote:
>>>> FROM TOWNHALL.COM
>>>>
>>>> HEAD: Secrets Are No Fun for Unions
>>>>
>>>> Who are you voting for this fall? The answer to that question is none
>>>> of my business. In fact, it is a fundamental American right to have
>>>> your vote be as private as you wish. Unfortunately, Democrats and
their
>>>> financiers, Big Labor, want to abolish a worker's fundamental,
American
>>>> right to a secret ballot.
>>>>
>>>> Why are they doing this? Maybe because Democrats have openly admitted
>>>> they owe their 2006 electoral success to Big Labor and have promised
>>>> the elimination of the secret ballot as a return on investment. That
is
>>>> why during this Congressional session every Democrat in the House and
>>>> Senate voted to abolish the secret ballot. Thankfully, Republicans in
>>>> the Senate were able to stop this disastrous bill.
>>>>
>>>> This is a moment when hyperbole is unnecessary. This unprecedented
>>>> power grab by Big Labor and the willingness of Democrats to ignore
such
>>>> a fundamental American right threatens the very nature of our system
of
>>>> government.
>>>>
>>>> Unions already spend hundreds of millions of dollars to influence
>>>> elections. Imagine what they could do when entire industries are
>>>> unwillingly coerced into joining a union and forced to pay dues -
dues
>>>> earmarked for the next election cycle.
>>>>
>>>> In fact, alleged coercion for political gain is already occurring.
>>>> Recently, The Wall Street Journal re****ted that the National Right to
>>>> Work Legal Defense Foundation asked the Department of Justice to
>>>> investigate the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The
basis
>>>> for the request centers on this fact:
>>>>
>>>> "The union adopted a new amendment to its constitution at last
month's
>>>> SEIU convention, requiring that every local contribute an amount
equal
>>>> to $6 per member per year to the union's national political action
>>>> committee. This is in addition to regular union dues. Unions that
fail
>>>> to meet the requirement must contribute an amount in 'local union
>>>> funds' equal to the 'deficiency' plus a 50% penalty." (The Wall
Street
>>>> Journal, 7/28/08)
>>>>
>>>> Can you name any other company or organization that could compel its
>>>> member****p to fund political organizations that rank and file
>>>> member****p may or may not agree with? As I said earlier, hyperbole is
>>>> not needed on this issue. With November approaching, a potential
Barack
>>>> Obama administration promising to "play some offense for organized
>>>> labor" and Democrats' determination to eliminate the secret ballot,
the
>>>> need for a robust Republican presence in the Senate has never been
>>>> greater.
>>>>
>>>> So im****tant is eliminating the secret ballot to Big Labor that a few
>>>> weeks ago Democrat Senate candidates, Reps. Tom Allen (ME), Tom Udall
>>>> (NM), and Mark Udall (CO), along with Kay Hagan (NC), Bruce Lunsford
>>>> (KY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), and Jeff Merkley (OR) all scurried to
>>>> Chicago for a meeting when Union bosses beckoned. The three current
>>>> Congressmen already voted to eliminate the secret ballot and likely,
>>>> along with the other Democrat candidates in Chicago, pledged to
>>>> eliminate secret ballot elections in the future as well.
>>>>
>>>> Are such promises to Big Labor leaders representative of the will of
>>>> the people? Absolutely not! Amazingly, Democrats don't seem to care
>>>> that their agenda flies in the face of public opinion. More than 85%
of
>>>> Americans oppose eliminating the secret ballot and even the media,
>>>> across all political spectrums, has editorialized against such
>>>> legislation.
>>>>
>>>> "Abuses of workers' true wishes not only are potential, they are
>>>> guaranteed. There is no 'free choice' in this travesty, clearly a
>>>> payoff to union leaders who contributed so handsomely to the
Democrats'
>>>> November election victory." (The San Francisco Examiner, 02/16/07)
>>>>
>>>> "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided to hold a vote this
>>>> Wednesday on perhaps the most unpopular element of the Democratic
>>>> agenda. Under the so-called card-check bill, a company would no
longer
>>>> have the right to demand a secret-ballot election to certify a union,
>>>> thus stripping 140 million American workers of the right to decide in
>>>> private whether to organize." (The Wall Street Journal, 6/18/07)
>>>>
>>>> Democrats continue to oppose the will of the people, instead working
to
>>>> reward Big Labor. In fact, this issue is so far out of the mainstream
>>>> that even ultra-liberal former Democrat Senator and Vice Presidential
>>>> candidate George McGovern has publicly opposed this legislation.
>>>>
>>>> Additionally, elimination of the secret ballot will be the second
>>>> payback for Big Labor, since Democrats already cut funding to the
>>>> federal agency tasked with investigating union corruption. Without
>>>> Republicans in the Senate to stop them, what fundamental right will
>>>> Democrats eliminate next at the behest of their financial sup****ters?
>>>>
>>>> This fall when you go to the polls, the choice is clear (and
private);
>>>> the choice is Republican.
>>>> **********
>>>> Unions...now merely power-mad and corrupt.
>>>>
>>>> Dionysus
>>>>
>>>
>>> Over the past 10 years, cor****ations have spent over $20 billion in
>>> lobbying. During that same time "Big Labor" (whatever the hell that
>>> means) spent a little over $300 million.
>>> http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=c
>>>
>>> Only a right-wing nut case, who will not be happy until we have a
total
>>> cor****ate, or fascist, state will be concerned about the pennies spent
>>> by organized labor defending the well-being of the working man. And
>>> don't forget that cor****ate criminals do the ballot counting in total
>>> secret, resulting in "surprises" in the 2008 New Hamp****re primary and
>>> outright thefts in Ohio and elsewhere in the general election in 2004.
>>>
>>> Both parties are far removed from pursuing the interests of the
average
>>> person. To see what issues concern Americans, check out this recent
>>> survey from the Drum Major Institute:
>>> http://www.drummajorinstitute.org/library/re****t.php?ID=73
>> **********
>> I realize you are obviously brain damaged, so I will ask just one
>> question so as to not task you overly much: What does union thugs
trying
>> to deny workers the right to a secret ballot have to do with lobbying
>> dollars?
>>
>> Check with your counselors and re-hab occupational therapists, then get
>> back to us. Don't worry, we understand your condition; we wait.
>>
>> Dionysus
>
> Clearly, the focus of the article was not on undue influence over voting
-
> it was a rant against unions. If the issue was that of pressure to vote
a
> particular way, the author would have gone after the churches and
> cor****ations (like WalMart) as well. And, unlike Unions, WalMart has
the
> power to fire people. Going after cor****ations would be a much fairer
> target.
>
> And, except for president, voting one way or the other doesn't make that
> much of a difference. It's lobbying money that pays for legislation, no
> matter who gets in. Cor****ate money has resigned itself to a Democratic
> victory this Fall and is now being shoveled their way. Not many
Democrats
> have records showing resistance to cor****ate influence.
>
> And what did you think of the Drum Major Institute Survey? Does the
> majority of your middle-class peers agree with you?
**********
Any rump group that uses Bill "Blow Job" Clinton as its paradigm and has a
board of directors whose members would neatly fill out of carnival freak
show would easily twist any data to substantiate its far left looniness.
Remember, through it all, Br-a-a-a-a-a-ck, the Magic Mulatto just ain't a
right fit to be President; the boy just ain't got the fundamentals. At his
core, he's just another grasping Chi-town pol. Just ask Tony Rezko.
Dionysus
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