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Dems To Campaign Against Koch Brothers In Mid Terms

Dems To Campaign Against Koch Brothers In Mid Terms

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Gettin’ a little desperate Chucky?

“We want to work with our colleagues. But we’re also our going to make crystal clear whose side each party is on. Democrats are fighting for a fair shot for everyone, while Republicans are doing the bidding of the Koch brothers, the wealthy and huge corporations,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who devised the party’s direction this year along with Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “That’s the distinction we will draw in November.”

It’s not gonna work as long as Obamacare is in play.

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The Woman Who Was Just Doing Her Job

The Woman Who Was Just Doing Her Job

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Here ya go. This is the lady that felt the need to save Illinois from this terrible unhealthy cupcake girl. Unbelievable.0

Amy Yeager, a health department spokeswoman, about the county’s decision to shut down Chloe’s business, she said that she was doing it for the sake of the public. “The rules are the rules. It’s for the protection of the public health,” Yeager said, according to the Post-Dispatch. “The guidelines apply to everyone.”
“People will react how they choose to react,” she added. “But it is our job.”

Really, it’s your job to shut down a little girls hobby. What if this little girl learned from her experience and started her own company and grew into a national chain that produced thousands of jobs, many right there in Illinois? Good job you liberal asshat, you just shot down a potential American dream for this little girl.

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Chloe originally started selling the frosted cakes under the name “Hey, Cupcake” to save up for a car when she turns sixteen.

And before the government took her oven mitts, the sixth grader charged $10 for a dozen cupcakes and $2 for each specialty cupcake.

However, she was also known to donate her time and sprinkles to charity. When a boy in her school was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, she donated cupcakes to help raise money for his treatment. Adding a personal touch, she made them orange and blue because he “was a really big Cubs fan.”
Her largest order ever, amounting to 220 cupcakes, was also for a cancer fundraiser.

How do you feel now Ms. Yeager, you government bred hag?

Teachers Union Boss…Again

Teachers Union Boss…Again

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We have had this special lady on before. She loves blaming others for failed union policies that are shutting down the school system in Chicago  I can’t express my dislike for this obese, greedy, selfish union boss, and how thankful I am that I don’t live anywhere near Chicago. 

On Wednesday, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis placed the blame for Chicago’s failing schools right where it belongs: on “rich white people.” Speaking to a luncheon on education reform, Lewis said that Chicago is the most segregated city in America, and that the educational failures in certain areas of Chicago are attributable to the “fact that rich white people think they know what’s in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents’ income or education level.” She added that there needs to be “an honest conversation about poverty and racism and inequality that hinders the delivery of an education product in our school system.”

Then she goes after the greedy banks.

Lewis said that minority neighborhoods need more funding, and blamed racism for lack of funding. “It’s as if there were a concerted effort to make sure that these are not walkable, thriving, healthy communities,” Lewis stated. And she blamed banks for driving people out of their homes in forecloseures. “If you look at the majority of the tax base for property taxes in Chicago, they’re mostly white, who don’t have a real interest in paying for the education of poor black and brown children,” said Lewis.

 

What she needs to understand is that white people are moving out of Chicago in droves, just like they did in Detroit, and her union negotiated teachers pensions, will begin breaking the bank. So instead of blaming whitey, take a good hard look at the union extortion tactics used against the city.

The average salary for Chicago teachers is $76,000 per year, making them the highest-paid teachers in America. The Chicago Teachers Union has also fought the shutdowns of failing public schools throughout the city.

Hard Work For Some…Not So Much For Others

Hard Work For Some…Not So Much For Others

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Update: Sorry forgot salary info in earlier post.

I would usually feel sympathy for a person in this shape, I always assume it is a medical condition that makes them so obese. 

Not this guy. Take note of when he starts his day, and when he leaves, then try and fathom his salary


“He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it,” said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president.

“Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, ‘I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.’ He’s usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.”

 

The 400-pound president of Local 983 of District Council 37 — New York City’s largest blue-collar municipal-workers union.

Mark Rosenthal, who pulls in $156,000 a year as head of Local 983 .

50 Chicago Elementary Schools To Close

50 Chicago Elementary Schools To Close

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They could save at least two schools by keeping Karen Lewis, the Chicago Teachers Union Boss, away from the dinner table. Get rid of Unions and bullshit administrators and they would probably keep them all open.

“I believe that every child in every neighborhood in Chicago deserves access to a high quality education that prepares them to succeed in life, but for too long children in certain parts of Chicago have been cheated out of the resources they need to succeed in the classroom because they are in under utilized, under resourced schools,” she wrote, saying she’d make her recommendations soon.

The district reports a $1 billion deficit by summer. CPS has estimated that each closed school would save $500,000 to $800,000. The district has acknowledged that closing schools won’t save money in the first year but will allow school leaders to redistribute resources.

“This city cannot destroy that many schools. It will send our district into chaos,” CTU president Karen Lewis said in a statement Wednesday. “These actions will put our students safety and academics at risk and will further destabilize our neighborhoods.”

Lewis said the union and supporters would use nonviolent direct action, and are holding a rally March 27 in Daley Plaza.

 Remember it’s all about the kids!

No Apologies

No Apologies

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Let the sequester happen…and don’t apologize for Obama’s bad policy.

In 2008 I was laid off due to the housing market crash, created by the Clinton Administration. I have worked for three different private sector companies since. One shut the doors because they could not compete in this economy, the next was a commission job for a greedy and crazy employer, (that lasted two months), and my current position was a fall back on a trade I learned in my 20’s. I am making 22% less and my taxes are higher than they were in 2008 and I have not had health insurance since the early ’90s, small construction companies can’t afford it. To put it mildly I am not impressed with Obama’s economy, and in 2014 I am going to have to pay for health insurance or a fine whether I can afford it or not. Instead of planning for the future, saving money for retirement,  I will be cutting back just to survive.

When I hear about all of these federal employees and their unions whining about taking a day a week off due to cuts I cringe. Their pay has been frozen but the vaunted benefits are the same. I have gone backwards and the federal government has added employees since Obama became POTUS. So the only “business” that thrives in a recession, apparently, is the federal government. And they produce nothing.

Union leaders cannot stop the furloughs or determine who in each agency must take them. They are demanding that employees be able to choose when to take days off and volunteer for more to help financially strapped colleagues. They want guarantees that no one will be penalized when work does not get done and assurances that managers cannot choose favorites to spare.

“Many of you will be missing eight, 10, 20 days of work,” Alex Bastani, president of Local 12 of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), told a standing-room-only crowd of 400 Labor Department employees Thursday at a lunchtime town hall on sequestration.

“The imminence of it is what’s scaring me,” Louise Leonard Campbell, an economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said Thursday as she left the meeting. “I’m a single mom. My son has health issues. This is just snowballing.”

“We are just living from one paycheck to another, and this could be really bad for us,” said Jorge Figueroa of Silver Spring, who works in quality control for the unemployment insurance division. He has four children, two in college. “I am telling you, this is going to be very stressful.”

Until you do something that benefits me or mine you get zero sympathy. As a matter of fact you can kiss my ass, you should feel blessed and lucky you have a job.

Union Causes 627 To Lose Jobs

Union Causes 627 To Lose Jobs

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So they vote 92% to strike, after months of negotiations, and Hostess told them if they strike the plants will close. They struck, they closed the plants…..forever.

Employee or former employee.    Seems like a no brainer for me, considering the job outlook for the next four years. Good luck Hostess workers, I am sure the company can find a right to work state to start a new plant. Enjoy your unemployment.
UPDATE: 18,500 Workers lose their jobs due to 5000 union bakers. What a sad, sad story. Don’t blame Hostess one little bit.
The closing will result in Hostess’ nearly 18,500 workers losing their jobs as the company shuts 33 bakeries and 565 distribution centers nationwide. The bakers’ union represents around 5,000.
Hostess will move to sell its assets to the highest bidder. That could mean new life for some of its most popular products, which could be scooped up at auction and attached to products from other companies.
“We deeply regret the necessity of today’s decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike,” said CEO Gregory Rayburn in a statement.
The company had given a 5 p.m. ET deadline for the bakers to return to work or face a shutdown of the company. The unions at Hostess could not be reached immediately for comment on the decision.

 

If you work for a man, in heaven’s name work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart’s content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it. If you do that, you are loosening the tendrils that are holding you to the institution, and at the first high wind that comes along, you will be uprooted and blown away, and will probably never know the reason why.                                    _Elbert Hubbard

We Have A Program For That

We Have A Program For That

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So it begins. This once great nation is something that I don’t recognize anymore. Americans used to be embarrassed to live off government handouts, it would be a cause for shame to be seen paying for groceries with food stamps, and it wasn’t that long ago.

Those times are gone. Minority groups not only use the government safety net, they take advantage of it, they have figured out how to live comfortably off of it. So why would you vote for someone who would take this stuff away? The simple answer, they won’t. We have gone down a path that crumbles behind us, we can’t go back, the takers vote for the givers.

Want a smart phone, no problem. there’s a government program for that. (As a matter of fact go get two or three and sell the others, you need the cash)
Want to eat steak and lobster and wash it down with a nice bottle of wine, no problem, there’s a government program for that. (We gave you a card so you can use it anywhere)
 Want a flat screen, here ya go, there’s a government program for that. (we don’t care what you spend your handout on, none of our business, we couldn’t track all of it anyway)
 You don’t want to go to work, no worries, there’s a government program for that. (we have plenty of hard workers that will cover for ya)
 You pay no taxes but you want your children educated, piece of cake, there’s a government program for that. (We have forced the school teachers to learn another language to help)
 Want to stay in the US even though you are here illegally, do not fret, there’s a government program for that. (We are working hard on amnesty for you, be patient)
 Want to go to college but you have no money, fear not, there’s a government program for that. (Affirmative Action babay!)
 Need a home but can’t pay for it, here is some paperwork, there’s a government program for that. (make minimum wage? Your approved)
 Need an apartment but can’t pay the rent, go to this line, there’s a government program for that (It’s not the Taj Majal but it does’nt cost ya anything)
 Want your utilities paid, easy squeezy, theres a government program for that. (single mom, oh you poor thing. Can’t let your 12 kids be witout power or gas.)
 Want to go to a strip club or casino, here ya go, there’s a government program for that. (But don’t tell anyone ’cause we don’t want to know how you spend your handout)
Need free health care, there’s a government program for that. (Obamacare duh)

The only reason I held out hope for a Republican victory is because I thought sane people would see the path we are going down and choose a different direction. Boy was I mistaken.