by Javier Manjarres
Our friends over at FreedomWorks have launched an all out assault against squishy Republican and Democrat state legislators who have for far too long stymied tax reform efforts in state legislatures by siding with unions and other nefarious liberal organizations that have proven to be nothing more than nuisances to the public discourse over limited government and lower taxes. With a little help from our amigos over at ‘El Grande Estado Rojo’-Redstate.com, FreedomWorks has put together this web video that consists of a montage of clips that underscore the totality of our debt problem.
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15 Responses to “FreedomWorks Launches New ‘Anti-Union’, Pro-Tax Reform Ad”
Total BULLSHIT. American workers are not the problem, never have and never will be. Right wing bullshit has infected other working Americans and incited them to the dreaded “Class Warfare” complaining about those who have quality health care and good pensions. The states, cities and federal government signed contracts that call for these things which must be honored. This is not a conservative/liberal issue, this is American workers and we must defend each other is we are to have a viable, vibrant and thriving middle class where we can own nice homes, nice autos and work so our children can have a better life than we do. Don’t be fooled, corporate money funds the tea party and corporations do not like unions and will tell you anything to get you to oppose them. We are the world’s #1 economy and this crap about they will go elsewhere is nonsense, expeicially if we enforced the tariff laws already on the books to make foreign competitors compete on a level playing field.
To Rich:
WRONG. This is about money, funded by taxpayers going to a political party, for political gain. Union members would have a choice whether or not to keep the money for say………….food, rent, house payment, bills or their kids education instead of it automatically going to the Democrat coffers for the election of another Socialist, Marxist or Communist.
The Liberal/Progressives use this argument to incite class warfare, skew the facts and try to keep their gravy train coming. If you can’t see this, you have been indoctrinated just like they are doing to your children.
Pete, get with it. Since when is it wrong for workers to get paid the best wages and benefits they possibly can get? Don’t YOU want as much as you can get for the work that YOU do? It is no different. Republican politicians hate unions because their corporate masters hate the unions, thus, to keep the big money rolling in the republican politicians will do anything they can to diminish and demean the unions. Makes no difference whether it’s the public or private sector, the workers who do the work should get the money. I’ve yet to see one of the tea bagger politicians refuse their money or say that they themselves earn too much or declare that they won’t accept the incredibly generous health care and pension benefits that THEY get. Maybe they can lead BY EXAMPLE instead of turning Americans against Americans.
This is all about giving workers less of a say in the workplace and paying workers, all workers less. If that’s what you want, elect all those wackos that you want, but don’t you dare cry to me when you start wondering why you pay so much to purchase health insurance for your family, your pension benefits disappear, you have to work longer before you can retire and you have to work more to earn less.
If you want to live in the fantasy land that says your employer will want to do the right thing by you, drink the tea party kool-aid. If you really think that big business will do the right thing before they do the profitable thing, keep smoking that tea party tea.
By the way, it seems that a common complaing among unenlightened conservatives is that union dues money is dontated to politicians. Well, it is, Now, corporate profits that should rightly be returned to investors as dividends are also dontaed to politicians. Which is wrong and which is right? You don’t like the unions donating to mainly the Democrats because the Democrats at least care a bit about workers’ rights whereas the republicans, because their corporate masters dislike the unions, oppose them in every possible way. Basic issus is thoug, if corporations can donate their investors profits, why can’t the unions donate from their dues?
No ridiculous “talking points” I want answers, please.
By the way, it seems that a common complaint among unenlightened conservatives is that union dues money is dontated to politicians. Well, it is, Now, corporate profits that should rightly be returned to investors as dividends are also dontaed to politicians. Which is wrong and which is right? You don’t like the unions donating to mainly the Democrats because the Democrats at least care a bit about workers’ rights whereas the republicans, because their corporate masters dislike the unions, oppose them in every possible way. Basic issus is thoug, if corporations can donate their investors profits, why can’t the unions donate from their dues?
No ridiculous “talking points” I want answers, please.
Rich,
If you are working in a sweatshop just QUIT. This is 21st century America. You can be whatever you want to be. You don’t need your big union boss to come put his arms around you and make everything better. He probably is making 6 figures himself and feels good about himself whenever he can get a CEO to throw you a bone. Unions today are all about GREED, POWER, and ENTITLEMENTS. Rich, you believe that corporations/government have a bottomless bucket of money that they can pull from whenever somebody starts crying about wanting more. If you want more money Rich, if you want better benefits, If you want a better life go get it yourself. No one is stopping you. God gave you a brain, hopefully, use it. No one is stopping you except you. I am all for peole getting paid what they are worth, so if they don’t think where they are currently working will provide them with what they need then they need to start looking someplace else.
@ Rich- You must learn to separate private & public unions. You choose to pay dues to belong to a private union. Those consist of regular dues & working dues, which my husband paid for over 30 years. He is a retired electrician & he NEVER worked for a POOR contractor. there is a purpose for corporations – they employ union workers.Public unions on the other hand are collecting dues from a worker whos payday comes from YOUR tax dollars. My husband retired at about 52% of his working wage. Public union employees are retiring at 75% of their working wage. Do you think that’s fair? The head of the AFL/CIO Rich Trumpka is an avowed Socialist. Please educate yourself & don’t buy into what literature the local sends you. You are a smart guy, but by what you’ve written it appears that you’ve been drinking the “koolaide” It’s not up to the local to tell you how to vote -EVER! Unions have NO business involving themselves in the government. Keep searching & God bless!
John, don’t talk down to me. I probably have more skills that you ever have or will have. Unions are about getting paid a fair wage, having quality health care and a safe pension. My dad’s union entrusted their pension to their main employer and the main employer gleefully screwed my dad out of over $250,000 that he worked for. Corporations will not out of the goodness of their hearts do the right thing for you. A union protects the workers from getting screwed by a greedy employer. We need then now more than ever. I really seem to detect jealousy on your part because someone else has a better deal than you do. This is big business dividing the American workers before the conquer us. The union bosses don’t come up and hug us, you fool, they make sure that workplaces are safe and manned by fully trained and productive workers. You have sucked up the right wing bullshit hook line and sinker. Why is there no anger at the massive salaries Wall Streeters get and then shield most of it from taxes? Where is the anger at the Wall Street crooks that almost caused a world-wide depression and are now using our money to pay themselves massive bonuses? Where is the anger at the increasing disparity between the workers and management salaries? Every year they get more and you get less. We don’t balance the budget on the backs of the workers.
FDR, a democrat and Champion of labor said it all: ALL government/public employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service”
“In the private sector, management has a strong incentive to negotiate pragmatically — the need to maintain a profit to stay in business. Customers have a choice of buying cheaper products and services elsewhere.In the public sector, such restraints disappear. The employees — through their campaign contributions and organizing activities — often get to determine who sits on the other side of the negotiating table from them.
When politicians who owe their power to public employees conduct so-called negotiations (in many states behind closed doors as there is no transparency) with them, taxpayers are left utterly defenseless. Since government is a monopoly, citizens are not permitted to shop around for another one that negotiates better contracts and provides cheaper services. No, citizens must simply pay, under the threat of arrest and imprisonment.
Thus, politicians can give away the store, bank on the unions’ support in the next election, and hand the bill over to someone else. You.
We’ve seen the results of such one-sided “negotiations”: early retirements, pensions with annual cost-of-living boosts, free health care for life. And while the politicians retain their power, and public-employee-union bosses get fat, private-sector workers find their quality of life steadily eroded by higher taxes that do little to provide basic services or help the neediest.
It’s a perfect circle: Public-employee unions get increasing amounts of money from the taxpayers, and use it to defeat the taxpayers’ interests.
This is a corrupt system, whereby politicians, lawyers and union labor leaders reap rewards through dues collected that go to the very politicians, attorney’s and the unions leaders themselves….and the taxpayers foot the bills and/or held hostage/extorted with threats and loss of services…if demands not met, while demonizing hesitant taxpayers as uncaring enemies of children, the elderly and the poor (who are purportedly “served” by the government bureaucrats the unions represent.
I also find it appalling that this progressive labor agenda is using Dr. Martin Luther King as the model for ‘Worker Rights’ Rights? Rights do not come from a Government, Roghts come from an individual based idea, under God, not for a collective entity or group for than this is a form of Socialism.
Rich,
I am sorry for talking down to you. I just don’t see this your way. I hope the best for you.
Richar——it’s ok for the politicians to have pension and health care deals like you describe, but not for the workers? Is that your point? The ones who do the least, and are at least partly responsible for getting us into the mess we’re in today, get the most. American workers need to fight so that we have the best, too. I see no one in Congress looking to give up THEIR pension and health care deals, probably among the best in the world. Let’s see THEM lead by example, not by empty words.
I am sooo looking forward to the Rich’s of the world getting paid their “fair share” in worthless hyper-inflated “money”. The wailing will be sweet music to my ears to drown out the MISERY we will all be in.
This subject is NOT so political at it’s roots as it is Financial. Now Dimicrats have used Unions for a big money laundering circle, and to be fair Corporations used to donate to Repubs, but not so much anymore.
The Ruling Elites of Both Parties took in money and gave out favors. But now there is no more money to pay out the favors, unless you print it out of thin air. Hence my 1st sentence.
The fantasy of unemployed or lower paid citizens paying for higher wages and benefits for Union workers and Government workers is a house of cards that will fall of it’s own folly.
Print Mo Obama Money to pay the poor Unionionists and Governmentalists. The RESULTS will be the same: No Jobs, No Wealth, Default.
I say we all take up a collection for Rich- Maybe a bi-monthly handout
Javier, I never askeo for one penny and I’ve been working since I ws 13 years old. You folks are so quick to sell out your fellow American workers for what??? If the working, middle class is not strong and stable, there is no one to purchase goods and services and the economy in general will suffer. You’ve fallen for the right wing bullshit that tells you we, the American sprker is the cause of the financial crisis when really it’s the politicians and big business. Already the tea baggers have sold out to big business.
I keep asking and no one answers, where is the tea party anger at the thieves in Brooks Brothers suits on Wall Street who so gleefully separated us from our money, got caught, got away with it anyway and now are asking YOU and your tea bag buddies to remove any and all regulations so they can do it again!! Let’s leave the workers alone and go after the real cause of all this, the greedy fucks in big business who pay little or no taxes and then gleefully suck up government handouts. Close tax loopholes and end corporate welfare and let’s see the politicians leading by giving up their “Cadillac health care” and world class pensions before any of us have to give up one dime..
Gen Early, you are dead wrong. There is plenty of money out there, but the ultra wealthy don’t want you to have your share adn the republicans protect them. The greatest transfer of wealth from the lower 95% to the upper 5% has occurred over the last 10 or so years. Why shouldn’t working people demand their share of the pie? Wall Streeters earning over $100M a year that they make in various nafarious ways should be the target of your angst, not the working guy next door.