SEIU and Obama
SEIU President, Mary Kay Henry, says in a recent email she has circulated:
"When Scott Walker manufactured this crisis by giving tax cuts to corporations and his special interest friends last month, it escalated a state legislative debate into a struggle for economic justice with large corporations not paying their fair share to get Americans back to work.When you see the news of our members in Wisconsin on the television and online, those are the things they're fighting for."
She continues: "Scott Walker claims this is about saving money, but President Obama said it best: this is an 'assault on unions.'"
They are masters at turning the argument on its head. Now Walker has manufactured the deficit by getting in bed with big corporations and cutting their taxes, whereas unsustainable health care insurance and pension benefits are the casualty of this budget battle and not the cause.
Moreover, can there be any doubt that Obama was the rallying cry?
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Jul '10
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How dare Scott Walker declare Wisconsin a business friendly environment? He has betrayed his President in the Obama war on business! Wisconsin doesn't need jobs!!! Wisconsin needs an Obama Czar to order their affairs properly!
Thanks, Mary Kay Henry and SEIU, for clarifying your hatreds and bigotries.
It must be hard going through life with no last name.
Oct '10
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There was an old saying, Do not tax you, Do not tax me, tax the guy behind the tree!!
Where is the guy behind the tree these days... Or rather, would that not might make an excellent protest sign, Hmmm..
May '10
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If they were really masters, you'd think they'd be better at it.
May '10
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He's gone into hiding like John Galt.
Oct '10
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Now that they have the stage, they have to say something or the other.
Oct '10
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Kennedy Smith
He's gone into hiding like John Galt. · Feb 20 at 10:20am
More to the point, the guy behind the tree is a dessicated corpse.
Find another tree...
Sep '10
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They can blame those greedy corporations all they want to but it doesn't change the fact that they have run out of other people's money. That statement is an amazing bit of insight into the mind of what the right is often criticized for calling socialist. If Mary Kay Henry does not believe that the tools of production should be owned by the state it is because she is too stupid to follow her own logic to its eventual end point.
Oct '10
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What's happening in Wisconsin is economic justice! I just love it when progressive types gush about democracy until democracy does not go their way; then "justice" becomes "hate"!
Edited on Feb 20, 2011 at 2:14pmJul '10
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Could the battle lines be more starkly drawn?
Jul '10
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Sisyphus:
It must be hard going through life with no last name. · Feb 20 at 10:05am
That's very funny.
By the way, all these are still getting paychecks. It must be nice to be able to protest against Yer employers and still get paid while keeping Yer job.
Nov '10
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From one single sentence:
Do they just have one response saved in their word processor that they use for everything? Couldn't whoever wrote this be replaced with a macro?