January 15, 2010 Hotair.com headline was “Video: Dems paying union workers to hold signs for Coakley?” The blogger went on to say; “The question mark’s there in an abundance of caution because there’s always a chance with short clips that some key context has been bowdlerized, but it’s hard to see how this one isn’t exactly what it looks like. Bonus points here for the fact that our hero admits he’s actually voting for Brown. If only he were SEIU, this would have been pure, 24-karat gold.”
In the video the Union members where wearing yellow shirts saying sheet metal workers for Martha. One of the supporters said; “If they want their fifty bucks they have to do what they are told.” Then one of the union members said; “I’m voting for Brown”. Most people who have never worked in a union shop would find this video shocking. I have been a Union member all my working life and for me that is business as usual.
In most if not all union contracts there is the union business clause that states if a member is on union business that person will be excused from work for said amount of time that is lost. It is without pay but the member turns a lost-pay card to the union and they pay you for your time. That is how the Union gets busloads of people at the rallies. In other words, hold a sign get check. It is a get out of work free card.
The Unions learned a long time ago if the News Media sees two hundred people at a rally, they must all be supporters, not so with union members. The membership have a running joke: I found part time work at the medical research facility. PETA would not let them use lab rats anymore but they have found out they like experimenting on union workers better because there are some things rats will not do.
Bill Thresher: Wichita, Kansas: Union Member
Pay me enough and I will go to an Obama rally. Probably not, but I would think-about-it
Friday, January 15, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The Recession is over so where are the jobs
The Whitehouse estimates 7.8 million workers are unemployed but some estimates go as high as 25 million Americans are out of work. When President Obama took office the job loss was 700,000 a month and in December, we only lost 11,000 jobs. Washington is not gaining jobs; they are just slowing the bleeding.
September 4, 2009 The New York Times referred to a “Jobless Recovery” the article stated; “Many experts envision a jobless recovery, in which the economy grows but job losses persist”. It went on to say, “Such an outcome would confront the Obama administration with a potentially nettlesome political problem heading into next year’s midterm elections. After the government unleashed $787 billion to stimulate economic growth, and after it bailed out financial institutions and the auto industry, the unemployment rate exceeds worst-case projections envisioned by the administration early this year”.
December 13, 2009 on ABC’s “This Week” President Obama’s director of the National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers, said; “Today, everybody agrees that the recession is over, and the question is what the pace of the expansion is going to be”. On December 14, 2009 on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Christina Romer, “The president has always said, and what I firmly believe, is you’re not recovered until all those people that want to work are back to work”.
January 11, 2010 the Pro Publica reported that the Whitehouse was scrambling to meet deadline for this month, the new guidelines could change what the public sees. For example when Chrysler received a 53 million dollar contract last fall, it listed zero jobs created. Under the new rules, the workers are counted as saved or created jobs. The Associated Press uncovered that the administration is using pay raises as stimulus jobs. The California state auditor ripped the state corrections department for reporting 18,000 jobs instead of just 5,000 officers who had received layoff notices. All these numbers are permitted under the new federal guidelines.
Now for our so-called Leaders on Capitol Hill, you are not there to cook the books and then try to convince us everything is hunky-dory. There is an old saying that goes don’t spit on me and tell me it is raining. I’ll let you in on a little joke the unemployed workers across the country have. We do not call it unemployment benefits; we refer to it as the “Obama Gravy Train”. I am one of the7.8 million people in our nation looking for work. When you cut off my money and it looks like I will lose everything because of your incompetence and reckless spending. I will be one of the 7.8 million that heads for Washington with pitchforks to run you out of office.
Bill Thresher Wichita Kansas, Riding the Obama Gravy Train
September 4, 2009 The New York Times referred to a “Jobless Recovery” the article stated; “Many experts envision a jobless recovery, in which the economy grows but job losses persist”. It went on to say, “Such an outcome would confront the Obama administration with a potentially nettlesome political problem heading into next year’s midterm elections. After the government unleashed $787 billion to stimulate economic growth, and after it bailed out financial institutions and the auto industry, the unemployment rate exceeds worst-case projections envisioned by the administration early this year”.
December 13, 2009 on ABC’s “This Week” President Obama’s director of the National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers, said; “Today, everybody agrees that the recession is over, and the question is what the pace of the expansion is going to be”. On December 14, 2009 on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Christina Romer, “The president has always said, and what I firmly believe, is you’re not recovered until all those people that want to work are back to work”.
January 11, 2010 the Pro Publica reported that the Whitehouse was scrambling to meet deadline for this month, the new guidelines could change what the public sees. For example when Chrysler received a 53 million dollar contract last fall, it listed zero jobs created. Under the new rules, the workers are counted as saved or created jobs. The Associated Press uncovered that the administration is using pay raises as stimulus jobs. The California state auditor ripped the state corrections department for reporting 18,000 jobs instead of just 5,000 officers who had received layoff notices. All these numbers are permitted under the new federal guidelines.
Now for our so-called Leaders on Capitol Hill, you are not there to cook the books and then try to convince us everything is hunky-dory. There is an old saying that goes don’t spit on me and tell me it is raining. I’ll let you in on a little joke the unemployed workers across the country have. We do not call it unemployment benefits; we refer to it as the “Obama Gravy Train”. I am one of the7.8 million people in our nation looking for work. When you cut off my money and it looks like I will lose everything because of your incompetence and reckless spending. I will be one of the 7.8 million that heads for Washington with pitchforks to run you out of office.
Bill Thresher Wichita Kansas, Riding the Obama Gravy Train
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