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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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Postal Workers Going Postal Over Staples

Postal Workers Going Postal Over Staples

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Read the article then let me know if you see an obvious problem.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces well-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers.

The union plans to hold “sustained” protests this month at Staples stores in the San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., area that would be expanded elsewhere. Union officials also are considering how they can exert pressure on Staples shareholders. “If Staples insists on continuing to refuse to staff those stores with postal workers, we’re going to urge people to take their business elsewhere,” Dimondstein said.

The union says it’s not asking to shut down the program. It wants the counters to be run by postal employees, not workers hired by Staples. The average postal clerk earns about $25 an hour, according to the union, plus a generous package of health and retirement benefits. The Staples post office counters are run by nonunion workers often making little more than the minimum wage.

The Postal Service increasingly has looked to work with the private sector to help increase business. In November, it announced a lucrative deal with Amazon to begin package delivery on Sunday.

So lets be clear, because it is run by the government they have unionized, escalated wages, pensions, and benefits to the point where they can’t be profitable.
So the unions are scared to death to find out that a kid making 8 bucks an hour can do just a good a job as the 25 dollar union dude. I would be nervous if I was them also. 

The agency has struggled for years with declining mail volume, but the lion’s share of its financial plight stems from a 2006 congressional requirement that it make annual $5.6 billion payments to cover expected health care costs for future retirees. It has defaulted on three of those payments. The Postal Service lost $5 billion over the past year, though operating revenue rose 1.2 percent.


Which parcel delivery company said that net income in the third quarter soared to $1.10 billion, or $1.16 per share. That was a penny better than analysts expected and an improvement over the $469 million, or 48 cents per share and has union employees?

I’ll take UPS for $500 Alex
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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.

CBO States Immigration Reform Good For America

CBO States Immigration Reform Good For America

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Once again this is easy. The Congressional Budget Office is supposed to be non-partisan, just like the IRS.
Any questions?

 The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of the economic impact of the Gang of Eight’s immigration-reform proposal. Proponents are likely to emphasize the report’s findings that the bill would reduce the federal deficit by $197 billion over the next decade (although Republicans will likely be asked to explain why this estimate is any more reliable than the CBO’s predictions regarding Obamacare).

 “Other aspects of the bill would probably increase the number of unauthorized residents — in particular, people overstaying their visas issued under the new programs for temporary workers,” CBO writes. And as a result, “the net annual flow of unauthorized residents would decrease by about 25 percent relative to what would occur under current law.” That’s not an insignificant reduction, but it hardly inspires confidence that Gang’s proposal will be more successful than the failed 1986 reform bill at preventing future illegal immigration. Regarding our current levels of illegal immigration, Senator Marco Rubio has often said one of the goal’s of this bill is “to ensure this never happens again in the future.”

 Congress has already passed laws (following the 9/11 terror attacks) meant to tackle the visa-overstay problem, but the federal government has yet to install a biometric entry-exit system to make sure individuals leave the country when they are supposed to. Rubio has repeatedly identified this as a flaw in the current immigration system, and has said he would not support a reform bill unless “enforcement mechanisms are in place.”

 On Tuesday, Rubio joined Democrats and six other Republicans to defeat an amendment to the bill that would have required the implementation of an entry-exit system to track visa overstays before illegal immigrants are granted legal status. Despite expressing his “support” for the “goal” of the amendment, offered by Senator David Vitter (R., La.), Rubio said in a statement that he opposed the amendment because it “delays the process of submitting illegal immigrants to background checks and the imposition of fines for having violated our immigration laws.” He promised to ”continue working with my Republican colleagues to improve the entry-exit system measures in the legislation.”

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Obama Regime Ignores The Majority…Ships Weapons To Syria

Obama Regime Ignores The Majority…Ships Weapons To Syria

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So I guess it does not matter that a majority of Americans do not want the United States involved in this mess, and specifically giving weapons to terrorists. They can’t track guns given to the Mexican cartels in Fast & Furious, how the hell can they say with a straight face they will know who gets the weapons in Syria. I can’t tell you how pissed off I am right now. IT IS NOT OUR JOB TO SECURE SYRIA!!!

EPA Building Full Of Secret Mancaves

EPA Building Full Of Secret Mancaves

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The thing I don’t understand is, if the GSA owns the building paid for with taxpayer dollars, and they are leasing the building to the EPA, I assume the EPA is paying the lease with taxpayer dollars. Seems quite asinine to me. Why not turn the building over to whatever government entity needs it. It is paid for already by us, the taxpayer, so why are we getting double dipped. The original purchase and the lease payment. Stupid.

EPA’s inspector general found contractors used partitions, screens and piled up boxes to hide the rooms from security cameras in the 70,000 square-foot building located in Landover, Md. The warehouse — used for inventory storage — is owned by the General Services Administration and leased to the EPA for about $750,000 per year.
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Let alone the fact that the EPA contractor is abusing their privilege, we are getting screwed.

A Kings Feast

A Kings Feast

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I have been in a hundreds of meetings over the years. At the corporate level, we would get snacks or pizza depending on the type of meeting we were doing. 
I have been in intense meetings where I knew the tensions would be extremely high and on a few occasions the threat of a punch being thrown was real. The last thing we had in front of us was food, this was not a luncheon, this was business where someone was going to leave unhappy.

So how is it that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell look like they are having a brunch in what I would assume to be budget talks. This is exactly the type of meeting where you sit on one side of the table, and your opponents on the other , this meeting looks like high tea. (whatever that is)
No wonder nothing gets done, the harsh rhetoric is saved for the media and sheeple, other than that it’s “party on Wayne!”

No Such Thing As An Illegal Immigrant…Apparently

No Such Thing As An Illegal Immigrant…Apparently

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Obama’s uncle can’t be kicked out after 25 years, what makes you think we will deport any illegal mexican immigrants? Good night Irene!

Despite a deportation order issued against him 21 years ago, Obama, a 68-year-old liquor store manager, stayed in Massachusetts, living and working undetected until Framingham police arrested him in August 2011 on drunken driving charges. He later admitted to sufficient facts in the case and was sentenced to a year’s probation that ends in March. […]

Judge Shapiro, a Republican appointee, is a veteran immigration judge who also handled the deportation case of the president’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango. He granted her asylum in 2010 based in part on the exposure of her case to the media.