House GOP Passes Budget Amendment Blocking Funding for Obama’s Army of “Czars”…
Obama was right, elections do have consequences.
The House GOP approved an amendment to a government-spending bill that would block funding for the Obama administration’s so-called policy “czars,” appointed advisers to the president that have been much-criticized by Republicans.
The amendment, offered by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), specifically targets Obama’s “climate czar” by blocking funding for the assistant to the president for energy and climate change, the position’s official title. The amendment would block funding for the ‘czars’ through the end of the fiscal year, when the spending bill would run out. The underlying bill also includes a provision to block funding for the position.
“I think this sends a strong signal to the president that we are tired of him running this shadow government, where they have got these czars that are literally circumventing the accountability and scrutiny that goes with Senate confirmation,” Scalise said after the vote.
Carol Browner, who currently holds the position, announced last month that she will resign, leaving the future of the office is very much in doubt.
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Bwah ha ha ha
Czarist America. How sickening.
Where will they steal the money from
Good.
Thank God
Carol Browner – exiting before the subpoenas hit. Bitch
Ta ta Czars. I’m sure George Soros will hire you.
Too bad Cass Sunstein isn’t a czar because that Marxist regulator SOB is killing the country.
Single best move for the new GOP majority since repeal of Obamacare. Get’er done!
Fucking A! Time to start de-funding a whole lot of this cretin’s shit. Maybe if his staff of millions are “pink slipped”, he will resign because he can’t handle the job without his posse.
Maybe they can fund them from THE WON’s endless vacation fund.
suck it BARRY!!!!!!!!!!!
Proud of Steve Scalise. You represent Louisiana well. Keep up the great work!
1886 Woodrow Wilson was an advocate for the Administrative Government, non-elected bureacrats to run the government from a centralized area. In your face, Woody. ha ha.
YES, and ensure that no one gets a another cent from USA taxpayers in the form of benefits or insurance—DAMM IT–I AM SO OUTRAGED at this cabal of punks–yes punks with a certificates from HAHHRVARD.
Man o man I wish I was at Bunker Hill right now to do it all over. We are close.
“The Constitution is not a document for the government to restrain the people: it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and our interests.” Patrick Henry
This is good news, I will be much happier once they (GOP) CONVICT obama and his goons of CRIMES against their fellow AMERICANs! Send these SOBs to the slammer, where they belong!
Terrific news. One step of many to derail Barack Hussein ibn Soros’ evil agenda.
It’s been a good day. Today’s news proved the left is violent, racist, and cowardly. This anti-czar move is icing on the cake and they started with the right one.
Every now and again, I feel badly for those two little girls who are going to grow up with both of their parents in prison. Worse than that, they’re probably going to look like their mother. Damn shame.
YES! GO, STEVE!
Obviously, the N.O. metro area is NOT all about titty-bars, drunkenness, voo-doo and “throw me something, mister”, as we are commonly portrayed.
I am proud to have voted for him.
I bet the First Squatch is in her cage flingin Poo at the secret service, busted dishes Holes in the walls How DARE anyone come against, The holy anointed ONE. HA/HA/HA ROTFLMAO
Hey Barry, btw…is there any truth to what the Pastor Manning in Harlem said about you…and “the long leggid Mac Daddy had a steamy love affair with Larry Sinclair”?
Surely it is as true as your telling America that you are a Christian–right?
I’m not gonna stop!
Nothing to do with this , or maybe it is…. but I’m pressed to spread even though this is last year. If you still aren’t convinced obaMAO is a communist moslim USURPER, watch all 5, or start with #3 to pipe your interest.
15 min. each or 1.5 hours well spent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l8W06wlQUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmjn53xZZjE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv9wdgKP8M4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V36wHmdAg4Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NC44crnrqI
@libertyinall50
HAHA! Good Observation.
I love how Pastor Manning is so NOT pc.
mcmung
yup, that is one of the alltime videos if you can find it—-HILLARIOUS and so TRUE…link it up and paste it
Is it too early to do a happy dance?
I miss Pastor Manning. He had Baby-O nailed didn’t he?
If anyone can paste Manning it would be worth it…anyone?
Madame?
DOITTOIT!
Someone correct me if I’m wrong:
1) Nothing has been defunded yet. This is just introducing an amendment.
2) Not all the czars are being defunded. Some are. One important one who is missing is Kevin Jennings, the Safe Schools Czar who is a pedophile-friendly homosexual activist devoted to gaying up the schools.
3) The czars are just defunded. Not forced to step down from their positions of power.
4) None of the czars will be hauled before a Congressional committee to account for what they’ve been up to.
….but it’s a start.
I understand it’s a start – and I am 100% in favor of this. Very good news to see the people we put into power are finally starting to get things moving.
But I AM wondering if the points I made above were correct.
I couldn’t quite decipher this last sentence before the ‘Rest here>>>’ link:
“Carol Browner, who currently holds the position, announced last month that she will resign, leaving the future of the office is very much in doubt.”
I the went to ‘Rest here>>>’ and found this:
“Carol Browner, who currently holds the position, announced last month that she will resign, leaving the future of the office in doubt.”
Curious…
OWNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love it
@Iron Maiden
hitting the ones they can at the moment. The pile of excrement Jennings might be he’s still safe enough by using his sexual practices as a shield like Barny does. He’s likely on the list but that is for a Congressional hearing/trial and not just cutting the purse strings.
It’s a start.
But with a swarm of commies hacking into the hull of USS U.S.A. just as fast as they are able(from the inside!), the conservatives might need to use a bigger bucket to bail the water … and maybe more than one guy bailing.
Is that a tingle going up my leg? IT IS!
Watching the rats leaving the sinking ships will bring a smile to my face.
I think he just threw up a little in his mouth…
You folks are terribly uninformed and I almost feel sorry for you-almost.
you almost for sorry for yourself….huh…
just not quite there yet…?
Don’t worry…. you will soon enough
nzo, what are you talking about? How are we uninformed?
Do you guys realize that President Bush also has Czars. In fact there were 33 of them from 2001-2009. So it’s okay when a Republican President has funding for a these position but it’s not okay for a Democrat?
Man you guys are crazy. It’s people like you that encourage hate in this country. It’s people like you that that racism persists, and it’s people like you that our country has been handed over to corporate entities like the Koch Brothers.
President’s name↓ In office↓ Number of
czar titles↓ Number of
appointees↓ Appointees not
confirmed by Senate↓
Franklin Roosevelt 1933–1945 11 19 17
Harry Truman 1945–1953 6 6 5
Dwight Eisenhower 1953–1961 1 1 0
Lyndon Johnson 1963–1969 3 3 1
Richard Nixon 1969–1974 3 5 5
Gerald Ford 1974–1977 2 2 2
Jimmy Carter 1977–1981 2 3 2
Ronald Reagan 1981–1989 1 1 1
George H. W. Bush 1989–1993 2 3 0
Bill Clinton 1993–2001 8 11 7
George W. Bush 2001–2009 33 49 28
Barack Obama 2009– 37 41 32
“The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American’s freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen
of his plight.”
- John F. Kennedy, speech at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination
http://www.truthandliberty.com/Quotes_on_NWO_-_Patriots.html
republicfortheunitedstates.org is fighting the fight started by President
John F. Kennedy. We have been hood-winked by USA INC.
Republicans care about the budget.
No really, they do… when a Democrat is in office. When Republicans are, however… $1.4 trillion wars, 10% expansion of the Defense budget year-over-year, a $700 billion healthcare overhaul to one of those much-hated entitlements, abolition of countless thousands of our liberties to fight the non-threat of terrorism…
And you’re bitching about Obama’s czars, of which he has fewer than did Bush? Wait, wait, wait, before you reply, let me just take a guess at how you’re going to: “It’s the liberal media!”
Keep it strong, Republicans. You’ve got a nation to burn.
I think “Teabagger” and “A_Pickle” pretty much nailed it. It is the vitriol that get’s posted by uninformed right wingers at this site and others that perpetuates racism and hate. Just wait until the GOP you elected guts Social Security and privatizes Medicare, you will be flipping your collective lids. Oh wait, that educated half black President and “liberals” won’t let that happen. You can dispense with the “we want a balanced budget” and “big government” talk. That is just a cover for racism in most cases. Tired of seeing the “Take Back America” bumper stickers. The reason we are in this mess is 8 years of tax breaks to the wealthy and 2 wars that were not on the “books” for the better part of a decade. What do you think a “czar” is? It is a Director of an office that is generally needed. That is why “you folks are terribly uninformed”.
@NZO
shut up and crow somewhere else….
@Apickle
same to you
shut up and crow somewhere else
@teabagger…
“…Do you guys realize that President Bush also has Czars….”
Is everyone on the left this stupid… or just you…
Sorry to rain on your circle-jerk with all those pesky “facts”.
@teabagger…
“…Do you guys realize that President Bush also has Czars….”
Is everyone on the left this stupid… or just you…
well it looks like nzo is tied for first
congrats nzo
Nzo A pickle and that other POS thinks there is no threat of terrorism oh wait the only threat is israeli terrorism i forgot.
I like how the POS thinks we’re racist.
STFU and kill yourself so the world won’t be overpopulated by 2050 you troll.
A typical uninformed and childish response to actual facts. This is the “hate spewing” I reference. When presented with facts, rather than state a counter-point, it is “POS” and “kill yourself”. I apologize, I was wrong-you are not uninformed, but uneducated. I have seen the error of my ways and now I do feel sorry for you. It is this kind mentality that sent a threatening fax to Congresswoman Betty McCollum for having the audacity to propose a spending cut to not sponsor a NASCAR team. I thought you folks were all about saving the budget?
You people are retarded. “Czars” are merely advisory positions with absolutely no decision-making authority or powers. Know which president first appointed one? Reagan. Then Bush II appointed a whole bunch more. Obama didn’t invent them because he is a socialist, you’re all just morons. Sorry.
nzo-I believe the difference in the czars are that other prior Presidents vetted their czars somewhat where as Obama appoints down right Communists like Van “Bite my Bone” Jones and Progressive Liberals (aka Communists) like Cass-hole Sunstein to his cabinet of dancing with the Czars. NASCAR is the Army’s number one recruitment draw, defunding that during a time of war with a military totally based on volunteers, well, that is just stupid. We are wanting to save the budget, by cutting down Government to a sustainable size, getting rid of the freeloaders, ridding ourselves of overpaid underworked bureaucrats, the States formed the Fed, the Fed works for the States, and they both work for the People. Somehow, with the manipulation of monetary power fueled by greed on the right and a push for elitist power control through socialism on the left, we have lost our way. However, we will find ourselves shortly as once a person tastes true liberty and freedom, they will never be starved of it again.
Hello “Monster Zero”, it is nice to see someone who does not tell me to STFU or kill myself. I am not sure if the NASCAR sponsorship of 7 MILLION dollars a year is really paying off in recruitment numbers, but I do appreciate your civility.
matt-
Czars have the ability to circumvent the legislative process, that is why they are dangerous people. Remember, Three branches of Government are what make it work or are supposed to; Executive, Legislative, and Judicial…
Obama did not invent them, he has just given them a whole new meaning, similar to that of the use of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, to mandate purchase of a service. You know the commerce clause…
Cash for Clunkers, your tax dollars at work, not through Congress but through a Czar…
nzo
7 million a year in sponsorship to something like Nascar goes far beyond just recruiting young men and women to serve. I would imagine that the sponsorship generates quite a bit of commerce at the racetrack for vendors, manufacturers and others. Besides, 7 million to Obama is like a tip or a gratuity to a Union official.
You honestly believe that? Besides, you are side stepping the issue of the vitriol that spurs on some of your more “ardent” posters. This is the party (GOP) who wants to strip funding from PBS. While I do not watch Masterpiece Theater, I do recognize the importance of Sesame Street, Nova- even Ask This Old House. The problem lies in the GOP refusal to compromise on the huge deficit drains. I understand that lobbyist and corporations run this country. They even bought and paid for Thomas and Scalia’s vote on Citizen’s United ruling. What I do not understand is the hate speech that Fox news and it’s fearful uninformed viewers suck up with a spoon and take as fact. Surely you must recognize that Fox news is a “info” channel and their purpose is to rile up and strike fear into their viewers. They have even admitted as much. Look what they accidentally did to Ron Paul at CPAC just this week. Oh, we mixed up last years video with this years. Oh, OK- RP won’t win anyway (so say’s “the donald”). I just don’t understand the vitriol that is being spoon fed to it’s viewers.
nzo learned a new word on Sesame St…..vitriol…..yeah..he learned a new word
Sesame St is good
the Count will have nzo counting to ten in no time….yeah…
It is past your bedtime….adults are talking “johnnychimp”. Don’t interrupt.
you’re an adult…???
hahahahahahahahaha….he made a funny…him love Sesame St too
Once again, a uneducated poster rears their ugly head and ruins it for anyone who tries to engage a dialog. The GOP is celebrating your existence “johnney_is _a_chimp”. Rock On!
nzo said Rock On!
did you hear that on Sesame St…yeah… yeah…. for Sesame St
nzo-What do you think every left wing propaganda spewing networks like ABC, MSNBC, and CNN do? They are so far up Obama’s ass he is burping out Oprah and half of Hollywood, and the vitriol makes FOX look like pussies.
You ever watch Chris “Tingle Tip” Matthews, Ed “Shitz” Schultz or Rachel “Mad cow” Maddow, or Bill Maher? That is what they get paid for…get real!
You don’t understand the vitriol, we hate Socialism, Communism, Marxism, and the people that push it on us, we believe in the Constitution and will defend it when the time comes with our lives, it is as simple as that. Perhaps we lost a father, a brother, a son or relative in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam or Korea or some other God foresaken shit hole fighting the very ideologies this asshole usurper is trying to force us into while spending our childrens’ childrens’ future.
That is it, now suck on that tonight instead of your thumb!
The uneducated Fox viewers are out in force tonight. Isn’t O’Really on now. The children are posting on the internet-”you can’t explain that, it’s like the tide’s”.
The uneducated MSNBC viewers are out in force tonight.
isn’t Madcow on now…or Crazy Eddie
I am sorry “Monster Zero”, I thought you were a voice of reason around here. To your credit, , you did last longer than the posters who posted “STFU” and “kill yourself”. A valiant effort, but at the end, you are just as bad as your peers. Knowledge and facts are not welcome here. The good news is NASCAR starts soon and most of you will be distracted from your ill fated cause (at least on Sundays). I will continue to hang out here, you guy’s are the best!
nzo says “you guy’s are the best!”
yes stick around. we love you too. I love your Sesame St stories
“uneducated Fox viewers”, sarcasm, “children”? Why is it when the left runs out of legitimate facts, they have to resort to name-calling? Even using the obnoxious name of Teabagger speaks volumes. Is nzo, Teabagger one in the same?
a voice of reason…damn son, I thought that those were a pretty good reasons why the vitriol.
You can hang around all you want, I’ll tell my nuts to slide over.
You must be joking! I have been stating legitimate facts all day here, only to be attacked. You folks really are delusional. Nice try though. I am sorry you refuse to except facts, but you can lead a horse to water , but you can’t make that old nag drink. I am sorry a half black man is President, you really should get over it and think about what is best for our citizens. Really, you guys are awesome- I haven’t had this much fun since my last trip to my parents house. You would love them, they also have no clue to the state of the modern world. Everything is “jews and blacks and socialism”. I don’t know what your parents did to you, but they should probably be prosecuted.
nzo-
Yes, you’ve won me over, I see it now, massive government expansion, a 14 trillion debt, an unsustainable budget, a orgy of spending, feed me, bathe me, wipe me, tell me what to think, tell me what to say, regulate me, tax me, tell me what lite bulb to use, tell me what car to buy, tell me what success I may achieve and mandate me to purchase of healthcare… Yes you have swayed me with your rapier wit and self imposed elitist charm. And you still think it is because of his being black, hell son, it is because he is RED.
What modern world did Mom and Dad send you out to see? Wait, let me guess, Europe, the Netherlands perhaps…
“but you can’t make that old nag drink. ”
Shouldn’t talk about your parents like that… they had you, didn’t they…
You know, I now understand why you brought you parents into the string. Liberals that buy this Obama Pelosi Reid crap are just looking for a new Mommy and Daddy to take care of them. It most probably was a Freudian slip, unbeknownst to you I say…like they say in celebrity rehab, you should watch, it’s on right after NASCAR and Glenn Beck.
You guys can’t be serious. I came here on a lark trying to understand. I now realize that any facts that are presented to you are met with derision. Posters here are a godsend to the GOP because they have bought the BS-hook, line and sinker. I must reiterate that I really do feel sorry for you. All you do is attack anyone with a different viewpoint and resort to childish attacks.
nzo…”You guys are a godsend to the GOP”…gee… thanks
nzo…”I came here on a lark and resorted to childish attacks”… true
nzo…”I must reiterate that I have bought the BS-hook, line and sinker.”
…you did, but we forgive you
This place is awesome! I have never experienced such knowledge and witty responses in all my days.
Keep your government hands off my health-care!
America/GOP-Socialism for the rich.
weaselzippers=fear/misinformation
and without all vitriol you claimed…
vit·ri·ol [vi-tree-uhl]
–noun
1.
Chemistry . any of certain metallic sulfates of glassy appearance, as copper sulfate or blue vitriol, iron sulfate or green vitriol, zinc sulfate or white vitriol, etc.
2.
oil of vitriol; sulfuric acid.
3.
something highly caustic or severe in effect, as criticism.
–verb (used with object)
4.
to treat with or as with vitriol, especially sulfuric acid.
Just for you….I know how much you like Sesame St…
Wow- just realized everyone here is a weasel zipper. That explains quite a bit.
uh oh…. someones getting nasty…
nzo…big bird isn’t happy with you
Not nasty, just disappointed in the lack of factual discussion here.
why is obama engaging in vitriol?
cat got your tongue…?
Yep… just as I thought…
nzo is just disappointed in the lack of factual discussion here
Well pal… don’t despair… here’s some facts to chew on…don’t choke on it…
President Obama on Thursday weighed in,
also accusing Walker of waging an “assault” on unions.
An assault… my my…such aggressive language… but the Democrats love it…
they just eat that crap up…with their union buddies…
Does nzo like it too…? Does it get you all hot and bothered….cupcake…??
just a couple of weeks ago… the Democrats were calling for civility…
Is this the “new” Democrat civility…?
Accusing others of an assault… btw…an assault involves physical force…
the Gov. of Wisconsin hasn’t assaulted anyone….has he nzo…?? Huh…??
he is asking for help to reign in out of control salaries…
Is this something you admire in a President… of all the people…
accusing an elected sitting Governor of “assaulting” other people…
Didn’t obama say “everyone got to have some skin in this game”…
nzo…. admit obama is a hypocrite…. c’mon you can do it…
NZO….I’ll make this easy for you…
########################
Admit Obama is a hypocrite….
Admit the Democrats are hypocrites….
#############################
and if you can’t…
then there will be no further discussion with your partisan idiocy
I heard this news earlier on a government regulated and subsidized radio station while driving in my government regulated and subsidized car. While it was on, I was driving on a government regulated road payed for with tax dollars. I decided that I absolutely had to rush home to my house, which has a government subsidized mortgage, just to post my comments on the government subsidized internet. On the way home, I passed a fire station, police department, and hospital, all paid for with tax dollars. Upon arriving home, I turned on my computer using government subsidized electricity, and navigated to this here website. I sure am glad that the GOP is working on nixing some funding for these program directors. Wait, no, if I call them directors instead of Czars, that just makes them look like normal old employees, sorry. I sure am glad that the GOP is working on nixing some funding for these Czars! DOWN WITH SOCIALISM!
@Rob:
I laughed heartily.
“Admit false defeat or there will be no more discussion”
You apparently don’t have a single idea what a discussion is.
“he is asking for help to reign in out of control salaries…”
*citation needed*
No worries, I’ll get that citation for you.
http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2011/02/10/wisconsin-public-workers-underpaid.html
“Government employees in Wisconsin receive 4.8 percent less in compensation for an hour of work than private-sector workers who perform similar duties”
Bob…you can answer than…
Admit Obama is a hypocrite….
Admit the Democrats are hypocrites….
#############################
Bob….
“Admit false defeat or there will be no more discussion”
Hey stupid I didn’t say it…. you quoted the wrong person…
just like a liberal…
always putting their noses where they don’t belong…
Bob you fucking union hack… you post some bullshit newspaper link…
get a real newspaper…
Rob says:
February 18, 2011 at 11:13 pm
NZO….I’ll make this easy for you…
########################
Admit Obama is a hypocrite….
Admit the Democrats are hypocrites….
#############################
and if you can’t…
then there will be no further discussion with your partisan idiocy
No, you said that. You are right, though. I didn’t quote you, I paraphrased you.
As for admitting for hypocrites, I admit the term “Fiscal Conservative” is a hypocritical title for any conservative since Reagan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
Bob says:
February 18, 2011 at 11:30 pm
@Rob:
I laughed heartily.
*************************
Impossible…you have no heart…or spine…or brain… or soul…
Bob…
you still can’t answer the fucking question…
don’t paraphrase…. that shit will come back to haunt you…
Is Obama a hypocrite for using the term “assault”…??
when just a couple of weeks ago he called for civility and a civil discourse…
@Rob:
Here, have the report filed by the economic policy institute:
http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/6759/
The same EPI that has been cited more than 20,000 times for it’s extremely accurate reports on all types of economics factors in America.
EPI has a board of directors from the unions…
a bunch of union hacks sit on that board…
are you fucking kidding me…?
board of directors
Ron Gettelfinger
United Auto Workers (UAW)
Serving as President for the United Autoworker’s Union since 2002, Mr. Gettelfinger has advocated for accessible and affordable healthcare for all Americans. He has also led the fight to renew America’s industrial base through incentives to manufacture energy-saving advanced technology vehicles and their key components in the US.
Leo W. Gerard
United Steelworkers of America (USWA)
Mr. Gerard is the President for the United Steelworkers of America. In his first full term he increased membership by sixty percent. The union has strengthened workers’ bargaining leverage by forging strategic alliances with unions worldwide.
Larry Cohen
Communications Workers of America (CWA)
Larry CohenServing as the fourth President in the history of the Communications Workers of America’s union, Mr. Cohen has implemented and spearheaded movements that have lead to help workers gain union representation in various sectors.
Anna Burger
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Change-to-Win
Anna Burger is both a top ranking officer at SEIU, the nation’s largest and fastest growing union, and chair of the Change-to-Win Labor federation.
R. Thomas Buffenbarger
International Association of Machinists & Allied Workers (IAMAW)
Mr. Buffenbarger currently serves as the President for the International Association of Machinists. When he was 20 years old he was elected for his first leadership position within IAM as a steward of his apprenticeship group. Ever since then he has worked his way up to the Presidency of the organization
fucking unionists is all you got…
“Impossible…you have no heart…or spine…or brain… or soul…”
I assure you I have a heart, spine, and brain. I’d argue against the soul, but that’s a topic for a completely different public forum.
Robert Kuttner
The American Prospect
Mr. Kuttner is the co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect and regularly writes on political and economic issues. He is also a co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute. In 1996 he was the winner of the Paul Hoffman Award for Human Development of the United Nations, for his work on the relationship of economic efficiency to social equality.
Gerald W. McEntee
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
Mr. McEntee is the President for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). He is one of the co-founders for the Economic Policy Institute and served on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Quality and Consumer Protection in the Health Care Industry during the Clinton presidency.
a fucking union trade magazine….
is not independent…
Bruce S. Raynor
Workers United
Mr. Raynor is President of Workers United. Prior to this post, he served as General President of UNITE HERE. He is known for working on numerous southern organizing drives, including the successful J.P. Stevens organizing campaign in the late 1970s and for combining aggressive rank and file organizing and alliances with civil rights and community leaders to build worker power.
Andrew L. Stern
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Mr. Stern was elected President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in 1996 after being a member and working his way up since 1973. He has been an aggressive advocate for practical solutions to achieve economic opportunity and justice for workers. He also fights to make globalization benefit not only big corporations but working people as well.
are you fucking kidding me… Bob
Andy Stern….
on the Board of Directors at EPI
and this is an independent magazine….
BULLSHIT….
HOLY SHIT>>>ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME>>>BOB
Richard L. Trumka
AFL-CIO
Mr. Trumka was elected President of the AFL-CIO in September 2009. He had served as the AFL’s Secretary-Treasurer since 1995. In 1982, he was elected President of the United Mine Workers.
FUCKING TRUMKA
“fucking unionists is all you got…”
Oh, I get it, it’s not the facts you care about, it’s just keywords that you’re biased against. Just keep throwing out keywords with no context until something makes sense.
Socialism! Communism! Unions!
You’re either very rich, or very ignorant on what the term “union” means.
It has everything to do with “maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment”. Anyone who hates someone for attempting to improve the conditions of their employment is a fascist. You probably will need to go look up fascist, though, considering how much the terms “communism” and “socialism” get abused and misused in this very comment section.
Randi Weingarten
Randi WeingartenAmerican Federation of Teachers
Randi Weingarten is president of the 1.4-million-member American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, which represents teachers; paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; higher education faculty and staff; nurses and other healthcare professionals; local, state and federal employees
YOU ARE OUT OF YOU’RE FUCKING MIND…BOB
Marx’s tombstone is engraved with “Workers of the lands, unite.”
Andy Stern: “Workers of the world unite.”
All I need to know about SEIU.
Rep. Linda T. Sánchez
U.S. House of Representatives
Rep. Linda Sánchez, a Democrat, has represented California’s 39th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2003.
LINDA SANCHEZ OF LA RAZA FAME…
HOLY SHIT…BOB
ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT EPI
BOB SAYS….”Anyone who hates someone for attempting to improve the conditions of their employment is a fascist.”
You better find out what fascist is …
before you go slinging that term around…ASSHOLE…
Mussolini was a fascist…
He loved the workers…and made them pay dearly
fascism…. is communism lite
ANOTHER JACKASS ON THE EPI B.O.D.
Raul Yzaguirre
Raul YzaguirreArizona State University
Raul Yzaguirre is presidential professor of practice in community development and civil rights at Arizona State University. Yzaguirre is one of the most widely recognized national leaders in the Hispanic community, having served as long-time president and chief executive officer of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR
LA RAZA SUPPORTER..
LA RAZA = THE RACE
WHICH RACE….BOB… YOU UNION HACK
EPI publishes it’s findings in the American Economic Review. I don’t give 2 shits that you’re freaking out over unionists running an organization when that organization is nationally accepted for finding and publishing statistics that are academically accepted to be correct. It’s claims are correct and published in the AER. Do you have evidence contrary to what EPI published? I didn’t think so.
you threw the organization up as legit…
too bad its not…
Now answer the question
is obama a hypocrite…??
Fascist:
An authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy. Fascism’s theory of economic corporatism involved the management of sectors of the economy via government controlled organizations.
A governing body seeking to actively destroy a union’s rights, while favoring big business, is fascist.
still haven’t answered a simple question that has been hanging
since this all started…
Now answer the question
is obama a hypocrite…??
afraid to answer the question…?? Bob..???
Assault is a synonym for an attack. You insinuate that Obama used it in the legal sense of an unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another. This doesn’t fit the context of what was said, so the alternate definition is assumed. It is an attack on their wages. There’s nothing uncivil about calling an attack an attack.
Uncivil is defined as lacking civility.
Civility is defined as courteous behavior or politeness.
“Some of what I’ve heard coming out of Wisconsin, where you’re just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally seems like more of an assault on unions”
The exact quote. There’s nothing impolite or lacking in courtesy in what was said.
YOU DANCED RIGHT AROUND THAT…
CAN’T ANSWER THE SIMPLE QUESTION
YES OR NO…
“If the 19th century has been the century of the individual (for liberalism means individualism), it may be conjectured that this is the century of the State.”
This is Mussolini’s famous prophecy about the 20th century in the Enciclopedia Italiana.
It came true with the aid of the modern-day Left and their love of big government. GOT THAT BIG GOVERNMENT…FASCIST
To underline that, note that in 1900 the ratio of government spending to GDP in Italy was 10%, in the 1950s 30%, and it is now roughly 60% (Martino, 1998).
In this prophecy, Mussolini rejected Marxian socialism because he disliked the Marxist notions of class war and historical inevitability but modern-day Leftists differentiate themselves from Marxists too.
But Mussolini was more like Lenin and Stalin in his overt rejection of democracy:
“Fascism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that it is a majority, can direct human society”.
Most modern-day Leftists in the Western world would undoubtedly like to get rid of democracy too but they are less open about it than Mussolini was.
RIGHT…BOB…
Now I ask you, is Walker, the governor in question, a hypocrite?
A few quotes:
“Soon, we will lay out our plans for the next state budget and we will successfully tackle the three billion dollar deficit. We will do it without raids on segregated funds, or excessive borrowing.” [Walker Inaugural Address, 1/3/11]
“I throw out a couple examples of things we pointed out there to get this next budget intact to make sure we don’t do what the governor has done the last couple of times, which is kick the can down into the future and create even bigger budget deficits we got to get our legacy costs under control.” [Walker-Neumann Debate, 8/25/10]
“Our budget repair bill will lay the foundation for a structurally sound budget that doesn’t rely on short-term fixes and other gap measures that only delay the pain and create perilous uncertainty.” [Walker State of the State Address, 2/3/11]
Immediately:
Since his inauguration in early January, Walker has approved $140 million in new special interest spending.
So, about that hypocrisy.
@Rob,
You’re thick.
“There’s nothing uncivil about calling an attack an attack.”
Pretty much means no, not in this case. The question of if he’s a hypocrite would require knowing his entire life story in search of a single case of hypocrisy, something pretty much every person on the planet is guilty of one time or another.
AND YOU’RE A FASCIST…BOB…
And Mussolini’s “Fascist Manifesto” of 1919 …
includes in Fascist policy such socialist gems as (I quote):
* The nationalization of all the arms and explosives factories.
* A strong progressive tax on capital that will truly expropriate a portion of all wealth.
* The seizure of all the possessions of the religious congregations and the abolition of all the bishoprics, which constitute an enormous liability on the Nation and on the privileges of the poor.
* The formation of a National Council of experts for labor, for industy, for transportation, for the public health, for communications, etc. Selections to be made from the collective professionals or of tradesmen with legislative powers, and elected directly to a General Commission with ministerial powers.
* A minimum wage.
* The participation of workers’ representatives in the functions of industry commissions
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” – Mussolini
The right works for corporatism disguised in a thin veil of “capitalism”.
Woah, you’re dancing around my question here Rob.
I ask you again, is Walker, the governor in question, a hypocrite?
afraid to answer the question…?? Rob..???
So, how many people today are aware that Mussolini, that great Fascist ogre, was in his youth an incandescent revolutionary socialist, a labor-union agitator
by your definition no one can be a hypocrite…
so no…
See, you can’t even handle your own BS debate “tactics”. Repeatedly asking a question isn’t debating. I don’t expect you to answer my question, because I already know the answer and you will gladly denounce Obama as a hypocrite for WORDS, yet when dozens of republicans continually go back on their POLICY, a much more important topic than words, you wouldn’t dare call them hypocrites. You have it embedded in your naive little brain that republican = good, democrat = bad. Maybe you should analyze some issues and vote based on what you actually think, not what they tell you to think. Warning about that, though… You have to actually think.
Oh OK…left wing… union agitating…Mussolini loving… Bob…
as soon you find some facts that aren’t tainted by grubby union hands
The commonest Marxist analysis of Fascism seems to be that it was “bourgeois”
the last gasp of a failing middle class in its desperate struggle to hold onto its position against the rising tide of the working class.
Since the leading Marxists themselves — from Marx and Engels,
through Lenin to Pol Pot have themselves always been middle class,
this analysis has its amusing side.
The perennial Leftist tactic of accusing others of what is in fact true of themselves would alone account for that characterization of Fascism.
One major “socialist” reform of the economy that is still a misty ideal to modern-day Leftists…. Mussolini actually carried out.
He attempted to centralize control of industry by declaring a “Corporate State” which divided all Italian industry up into 22 “corporations”.
In these corporations both workers and managers were supposed to co-operate to run industry together — but under Fascist guidance, of course.
The Corporate State was supposed to ensure social justice and give the workers substantial control of industry.
What was it the Newbie-Intern-In-Chief told when he introduced his budget? “We will all have make sacrifices” That includes the inept Newbie Obama. Mr. President (and you have no idea how it pains me to call you that!), you have a cabinet. Why don’t you introduce yourself to them and start utilizing them. The American public can NOT afford the DOUBLE PAYROLL you are costing us, with the numerous Czars you are utilizing. Russia never saw as many Czars as our useless President! WAY TO GO CONGRESS!