BO to SEIU - Your Agenda, is My Agenda
There’s pretty much no denying SEIU and ACORN are very close to BO. Here’s BO at their convention last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ1NJaCtIkM&feature=related
And President Transparency has had a few a few visitors. From the WSL BLOG: The list includes William Ayers, (I thought BO said he hardly knew him???) Jeremiah Wright, Michael Moore, Robert Kelly (R. Kelly), Malik Shabazz, and Michael Jordan.
One thing is clear: Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern holds sway at the White House, where he’s listed for 22 visits—the top number on the logs. Visitors in the top 10 also include former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy, and NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan.
Is this the president of all? Or of the Healthcare payout to SEIU?
Jeff:
What? A Democratic President is close to the country’s biggest union? Who’d ‘a’ thunk it?
2 November 2009, 10:32 pmYorkshire:
Jeff:
What? A Democratic President is close to the country’s biggest union? Who’d ‘a’ thunk it?
Sure as hell took me by surprise!
2 November 2009, 10:35 pmDana Pico:
But can we afford to have the President supporting the agenda of the SEIU? SEIU’s goal — like the goal of any union — is to increase the wages and benefits the members receive. Thing is, we already spend way too much money, way too much money, and giving more to SEIU members means spending even more money.
Nothing is free; everything has to be paid for somehow, some way. If a raise is given to the employees, then either taxes must be raised, other programs cut, or more money borrowed from China.
3 November 2009, 6:09 amropelight:
SEIU provided the goons and thugs to attack voters at Democrat Town Hall meetings. When Congressional Dems got called out for supporting Obama’s reckless spending by constituents, the call went out from the White House to SEIU to pack the rooms, limit attendance to supporters, and shout down or strong-arm citizens who voiced disapproval.
ACORN stuffs the ballot boxes, and SEIU, along with the New Black Panthers silence any who object to election fraud. They work together, like one hand washing the other to subvert elections and put Obama’s enablers in office.
3 November 2009, 8:41 amYorkshire:
Connect the dots from SEIU, Service Employees International Union to hospitals, especially Local 1199E and connect it to the HealthCare Bill and what do you get? Hospital workers, Gummint run Healthcare, SEIU, 22 visits to BO from Andrew Stern, and BO saying to them SEIU’s Agenda is His Agenda.
3 November 2009, 8:49 amPerry:
Ropelight goes nuts without attribution: “SEIU provided the goons and thugs to attack voters at Democrat Town Hall meetings. When Congressional Dems got called out for supporting Obama’s reckless spending by constituents, the call went out from the White House to SEIU to pack the rooms, limit attendance to supporters, and shout down or strong-arm citizens who voiced disapproval.”
To be credible, ropelight, you need to give us a credible source for you allegations.
“ACORN stuffs the ballot boxes, and SEIU, along with the New Black Panthers silence any who object to election fraud. They work together, like one hand washing the other to subvert elections and put Obama’s enablers in office.”
Same here, unless citations are given, any honest person would call this made up stuff.
ACORN registers voters, focused mainly on the poor and on minorities, which angers elites like Ropelight. They have committed no election fraud, and the occasional member who have were turned into the authorities by ACORN!
3 November 2009, 9:19 amDana Pico:
In te meantime, SEPTA workers staged a “surprise” strike:
By not announcing the strile time, commuters in Philly who used SEPTA hadn’t made alternate arrangements to get to work. Great work, union goons!
3 November 2009, 9:22 amPerry:
Yorkshire twists and turns:“Connect the dots from SEIU, Service Employees International Union to hospitals, especially Local 1199E and connect it to the HealthCare Bill and what do you get? Hospital workers, Gummint run Healthcare, SEIU, 22 visits to BO from Andrew Stern, and BO saying to them SEIU’s Agenda is His Agenda.”
First of all, at least the Obama visitors log has been made public, a change from Bush’s secrecy.
Second, it is about time someone in authority paid attention to labor, which has been short changed for decades, thus salaries have stagnated while the rich get richer, an unsustainable situation that may well lead to chaos and riots in the streets if the economy does not improve soon.
3 November 2009, 9:25 amYorkshire:
Perry:
Ropelight goes nuts without attribution: “SEIU provided the goons and thugs to attack voters at Democrat Town Hall meetings. When Congressional Dems got called out for supporting Obama’s reckless spending by constituents, the call went out from the White House to SEIU to pack the rooms, limit attendance to supporters, and shout down or strong-arm citizens who voiced disapproval.”
To be credible, ropelight, you need to give us a credible source for you allegations.
“ACORN stuffs the ballot boxes, and SEIU, along with the New Black Panthers silence any who object to election fraud. They work together, like one hand washing the other to subvert elections and put Obama’s enablers in office.”
Same here, unless citations are given, any honest person would call this made up stuff.
ACORN registers voters, focused mainly on the poor and on minorities, which angers elites like Ropelight. They have committed no election fraud, and the occasional member who has were turned in the authorities by ACORN!
Perry, all this stuff happened while you were sticking your head in the sand, closing your eys and putting your fingers in your ears. If you need citations, read the news from August and September and find it all. Perry, you yell citation constantly, and constantly you’re shown the way. Look it up and prove Ropelight and the rest of us wrong.
3 November 2009, 9:41 amYorkshire:
Perry:
Second, it is about time someone in authority paid attention to labor, which has been short changed for decades, thus salaries have stagnated while the rich get richer, an unsustainable situation that may well lead to chaos and riots in the streets if the economy does not improve soon.
I think you’re describing class envy and the need to equal all wages. Hmmm, wonder what that’s called?
3 November 2009, 9:43 amNangleator:
I heard ACORN invented evil. And it’s SEIU’s fault there’s night time and rain and mosquitoes and farts. And every time a poor person votes, a wealthy dowager spills her caviar on her dress, and must immediately order a servant girl beaten.
3 November 2009, 9:48 amNangleator:
“William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Moore, Robert Kelly (R. Kelly), Malik Shabazz, and Michael Jordan”
Yeah, I’m sure there’s just one of each name in the whole world. And Yorkshire checked his story carefully.
3 November 2009, 10:02 amYorkshire:
Nangleator:
I heard ACORN invented evil. And it’s SEIU’s fault there’s night time and rain and mosquitoes and farts.
I could, maybe, politely ask for a citation please
3 November 2009, 10:03 amNangleator:
Of course, if it was the real Michael Jordan, well, the government of the U.S. would simply have to be toppled!
3 November 2009, 10:03 amYorkshire:
Nangleator:
Of course, if it was the real Michael Jordan, well, the government of the U.S. would simply have to be toppled!
By the “towering” presence?
3 November 2009, 10:04 amYorkshire:
Nangleator:
“William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Moore, Robert Kelly (R. Kelly), Malik Shabazz, and Michael Jordan”
Yeah, I’m sure there’s just one of each name in the whole world. And Yorkshire checked his story carefully.
Well, the article may have alluded to a Bullfrog for Wright.
3 November 2009, 10:06 amEric:
Oh come on! The first three are well known left wing kooks. What are the odds that three perfect strangers with those exact names just popped into the WH for a visit?
3 November 2009, 10:54 amNangleator:
From Answers.com: “About over 10,000,000 people visit the white house each year.”
3 November 2009, 11:07 amPerry:
Yorkshire moans:“Look it up and prove Ropelight and the rest of us wrong.”
No Yorkshire, that’s not the way it works. The person who makes the allegations has the responsibility to back it up, especially when it’s off the wall, like many of yours are.
Yorkshire“Perry:
Second, it is about time someone in authority paid attention to labor, which has been short changed for decades, thus salaries have stagnated while the rich get richer, an unsustainable situation that may well lead to chaos and riots in the streets if the economy does not improve soon.
Yorkshire: I think you’re describing class envy and the need to equal all wages. Hmmm, wonder what that’s called?”
No, as I’ve said on here ad infinitum, I am very concerned about the trend of wealth away from the poor and middle to the top. I’m sure you will agree that this is an unsustainable trend.
The reason for this trend, as I see it, is greed for money and power, instead of seeing to it that productivity and hard work are rewarded fairly, down and up the line.
3 November 2009, 11:53 amJohn Hitchcock:
No, Perry, that’s not the way it works. When dealing with a “Helen Keller” partisan who never admits to being wrong when widely-known recent events are thrown in his face (with citations), there is a time to cut bait. You no longer receive the benefit of the doubt for your feigned ignorance.
3 November 2009, 12:00 pmh.:
Perry, the poor don’t have wealth. If they did they wouldn’t be poor.
3 November 2009, 12:26 pmEric:
And the vast majority of those are tourists, anonymous folks whose names aren’t likely to end up on a WH guest list. The names that ARE there are unlikely to be people who, by sheerest coincidence, happen to share the same names with several famous lefties. I mean, honestly, I shouldn’t have to explain this!
3 November 2009, 12:32 pmDNW:
These were reported not to be the persons they initially seem to be.
3 November 2009, 12:45 pmNangleator:
h., collectively, the poor have wealth. But not for long.
3 November 2009, 1:02 pmDNW:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33556933/ns/politics-white_house/
3 November 2009, 1:05 pmropelight:
I should have included the following:
In NJ, ACORN and SEIU goons pick-up Absentee Ballots by the dozens, brazenly appropriate the names of non-English speakers and vote over and over again for Emperor Corzine, just like they did for Obama the Usurper.
These filthy animals are scum, low down, belly crawling, yellow dog, scum. They’re not worthy of the gifts of freedom and independence this great country provides. Let them haunt the sewers and dark precincts where they learned to take joy in subverting democratic institutions.
ACORN and SEIU are a pox on the very concepts of liberty and honor. They belong in the seventh ring of hell along with their genetic brethren Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Osama bin Ladin, and Saddam Hussein.
3 November 2009, 1:22 pmDNW:
The release of names was a limited and selective release: “Obama names 110 White House visitors - White House- msnbc.com”
“Despite the accompanying White House claim of “transparency like you’ve never seen before,” the Obama White House continues to take the same legal position as the Bush White House, arguing that the records are not public records subject to
the Freedom of Information Act. Only limited “voluntary releases” are being made to settle a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group, though a federal judge has twice ruled that all the visitor logs are public. Yet there are severe limitations to the transparency: Most of the visitors from Inauguration Day to September will never be released by the White House under this voluntary disclosure — unless the public can guess
their names …”
It was obviously therefore, not comprehensive.
Thus, of the 110 names they released, we find the requested names of “Angela Davis”, “Jeremiah Wright”, “William Ayers” …”
However,
Since the White House is obviously aware of Obama’s personal baggage when it comes to being connected to these names, why would it release them without an accompanying comment that would squelch any potential furor over, “Ayers”?
Does this seeming indifference to the “implications” of releasing these names add up?
I suppose it might, if one prefers the stimulation of a pseudo controversy that can be disposed of, to a real one that can’t be …
3 November 2009, 1:59 pmNangleator:
ropelight, you’d better start listening to different shows before your master has you strapping on a bomb to kill people you know nothing truthful about.
3 November 2009, 2:01 pmropelight:
Nag, you’re all mixed up. It’s not me but Bill Ayres, one of your lot, the little rich boy terrorist from Chicago, who blows people up to make political points.
You know who I’m talking about, the vicious self-centered monster, the acknowledged Communist who kicked off Obama’s career, the one who wrote Obama’s book, the one who admitted he was “Guilty as hell, and free as a bird” while talking about himself, which isn’t at all unusual, since he’s obsessed with inconsequential topics.
3 November 2009, 2:45 pmPerry:
Ropelight: You’re filled with anger and irrational talk, hardly worth a discussion!
3 November 2009, 6:09 pmPerry:
DNW: Please link us to Bush’s guest list. Obama’s is not complete, unfortunately, but his is a step in the right direction!
3 November 2009, 6:13 pmYorkshire:
Andy Stern, another LEFTIST turn for BO. 22 visits? Must have been another Andy Stern. With all BO’s Lefty Friends, BO just has to be a moderate. Remember he campaigned that way. Remember he said see who I associate with?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzG0xpkjWrA
3 November 2009, 7:51 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpfU_AC7Ls
Yorkshire:
BO said to the SEIU Convention - “Your Agenda, is My Agenda”
With Andy Stern as President of SEIU, then I suppose BO agrees with this?
From Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ, February 20, 2007:
NARRATOR: It started last summer with the so-called Big Box Ordinance. Labor wanted it. Business didn’t.
STERN: We took names. We watched how they voted. We know where they live.
NARRATOR: In October, Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union:
STERN: There are opportunities in America to share better in the wealth, to rebalance the power. And unions and government are part of the solution.
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That little slogan “Workers of the world, unite!” comes from The Communist Manifesto. Stern is a fan.
STERN: We’re trying to use the power of persuasion. And if that doesn’t work, we’re going to use the persuasion of power because there are governments and there are opportunities to change laws that affect these companies. And I’m not naive. We’re ready to strike.
One is known by the company they keep.
3 November 2009, 8:09 pmmicbro:
indeed
3 November 2009, 8:23 pmDana Pico:
Perry wrote:
Trouble is, the only labor unions with any pull these days are the unions representing people in non-portable jobs. Teachers have to be here to teach, public employees have to be here to do whatever it is they do. Unions are dying in industry, because in most cases, the jobs are portable: it doesn’t matter where a car is built in relation to where it is sold.
If unions push labor costs to the extent that companies using non-union labor, or companies producing abroad, become able to produce the same goods for less money, then the union has just pushed the unionized company out of business. Simple economics, whether you like it or not.
The public employee unions, on the other hand, have a different situation: their “companies” have the power, in the end, to meet wage demands through taxation, through, in effect, compelling the customers to continue to buy their product. The discipl;ine of keeping the company in business that labor unions for private employers face doesn’t apply to them, so their demands get more and more rediculous, more disconnected with reality.
3 November 2009, 8:32 pmJohn Hitchcock:
I was in the teamsters union twice, once as a new-home insulation installer (dunno how that makes teamster, but whatever) and once as a line-haul trucker. That union never did anything but save the jobs of people who deserved to be fired and suck our dues to pay for Democrat legislators. In my last permanent job, I was 3rd shift union steward. Lotta good that did, too. At least they weren’t “ept” enough to save the jobs of people who deserved to be fired. Then again, they weren’t “ept” enough to save the jobs of people who DID NOT deserve to be fired. Sheet Metal Workers International Union. World HQ somewhere in Scandinavia. In the labor/mgmt meetings, I was the sole Conservative. The rest were card-carrying liberal BDS Democrats. And my heavy union dues went to elect BHO.
When I interview for a job, I know beforehand if it’s a union shop or a non-union shop. So I know if I need to be diplomatic (I can work in a union shop, I was a union steward in one) or forthright (I don’t really care for unions).
3 November 2009, 11:37 pmNangleator:
Some union decisions are bad… eliminate all unions!
4 November 2009, 8:53 amCan we also apply this process to political parties? (They won’t last long.)
And then we can just vote on individuals based on their individual, uninfluenced views.
ropelight:
…eliminate all unions!
Good idea. The sooner the better. These corrupt, feather bedding, economic disasters, are an anachronism in today’s society. Unions spoil efficient production, complicate ordinary activities, run roughshod over the rights of members, and keep organized crime and corrupt politicians in business while reducing workers to the status of house slaves. Unions are Un-American.
It’s past time rid our nation of these vile criminal organizations. Support a National Right to Work Law. It’s time to take out the trash, put the shameful and corrupt Unions in the garbage dump of progress where they belong.
4 November 2009, 9:58 am