Color me surprised (not). This is just indicative of what is happening all over our country by both parties, including President Obama.
So sorry to have to point the truth out, but there it is whether you like it or not.
Play ball, shut up, stop asking for worker's rights, and get used the the new normal: Either you believe in what is in front of your own lying eyes, to allow our so called party leaders to force us all into Chinese Sweat Shops (and to be lucky to even have a job, with no benefits or a decent wage, or decent health care) or you do not. That truth is up to you, but I can see what is going on for myself.
CHICAGO -- Known for a style that might politely be described as "no nonsense," Mayor Rahm Emanuel lived up to his reputation Wednesday, issuing an ultimatum to the city's labor unions: Go along with the proposed changes, or face hundreds of layoffs.
It's the first shot Emanuel has fired in a battle that's raging across the nation. With Wisconsin's highly controversial laws restricting collective bargaining now officially in effect and many other states looking to limit the power of unions, Emanuel is now talking tough in order to extract budgetary concessions from organized labor.
If his modifications to union work rules are accepted, Emanuel said at a Wednesday morning press conference, "I don't have to lay off 625 people. I'm about creating jobs and growing the economy, but I need [the unions] to be a partner in this." If not, he said, "I will lay people off."
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I know a threat when I see it, and I know exactly what Emanuel is trying to pull here.
No, it is not about creating jobs and growing the economy Rahm (you fucking retard and asshole), it's about forcing the already fully embezzled workers of this nation, those that have already paid the greatest price to bail out all the Corporate Welfare Queens, Wall St/Bankstas for more so called, bullshit, 'shared sacrifice.'
Emanuel is following in the same footsteps as any other Rethug Governors who are destroying our right to Unionize throughout our nation.
And unfortunately as we have all been oh, so busy bees, doing lots of Meta diaries or GBCW diaries, we didn't bother to notice this story:
Yesterday the White House took the last step to owning all three leftover Bush NAFTA-expansion deals with Korea, Colombia and Panama by announcing that they would send them to Congress imminently. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that we’ll lose 159,000 jobs with the Korea deal alone.
At a time of high unemployment, it’s difficult to fathom why the President would be fighting to increase our trade deficit and ship tens of thousands of jobs overseas. Even more stunning, however, is the loophole in the Obama deal that will hand billions over to North Korea to spend on their nuclear weapons program (PDF).
Under the terms of NAFTA, goods have to have 50% domestic-made content in order to qualify for inclusion. However under KORUS, goods with up to 65% non-South-Korean content qualify, as long as final assembly off goods happens in South Korea. That means 65% of all parts can be made China, Vietnam, wherever — giving rise to fears that the South Korea deal will be a back-door extension of NAFTA for China.
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/...
But of course as we know on this site, FDL is the real 'enemy' that no one should listen to. Good luck on that bullshit. If you want to make this issue a debate about FDL, then that will only mean one thing to me or any other discerning thinker on this site: You are not willingly or able to honestly discuss the issue at hand. So just don't even fucking go there, ok? Don't waste our time, because time is short, and we have run out of time. We are now at the midnight hour of the final negotiations for what is left of our Safety Nets, for Medicare and Social Security, or don't you get that yet? We have spend in excess of $ 4.4 trillion dollars on the endless wars, with no end in site, and isn't it so coincidental that this is the exact figure that the Rethugs (and many Blue Dogs) want to cut on the budget, at the expense of the elderly, the children and poor of this nation?
I know the truth when I see it, and what is more I take the time to fully verify these realistic truths from several sources, but don't let that get your 'Rose colored glasses all smudged and cloudy.' I sure would not want to be that person that dared to 'piss on your parade.'
Again and again I ask for the same debate, and this is not a difficult question:
If our own President will not stand up for the Unions, and if we allow someone as sleazy as Rahm Emanuel to threaten all the Unions in Chicago (just like the same Rethug governors are doing all over our nation) then please, please feel free to tell me what the difference is.
I welcome that debate, and I welcome your remarks, only do me a favor ok? Pay attention to the facts and evidence. The writing is on the wall now.
Who in the hell in our party is standing up for the now destroyed Middle Class and poor? Let alone our Unions?
Thanks as always.
Ms. B.