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Detroit: Barney Worries Bankruptcy Would Bust Unions
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/19/2008 7:08:52 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

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To: Paladin2
Except that now Bwanny has screwed all of America.

Don't you mean "has screwed the world"? ;-)

21 posted on 11/19/2008 7:32:29 AM PST by maryz
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Barney Frank is supports anything that will gather together large groups of men.


22 posted on 11/19/2008 7:36:03 AM PST by PGR88
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Barney Frank supports anything that will gather together large groups of men.


23 posted on 11/19/2008 7:36:11 AM PST by PGR88
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To: tgusa
And we’ve got 4 years to ignore him

...fortunately for conservatives, Barney Frank's big mouth and high profile are quickly making him the face of the Democrat congress. We need him to keep doubling down on failed liberal experiments.

24 posted on 11/19/2008 7:37:23 AM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What is Shelby doing, associating with this architect of disaster. If he wants to be a RAT, let him change parties. I may be too critical; but I am tired of one-way bipartisanship.

Shun the RATs; don’t give them the time of day; don’t go to their parties and by all means don’t vote with them. Let them call us obstructionist; we respond with “0bama lies: so do you.”


25 posted on 11/19/2008 7:37:46 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
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To: NTHockey

Shelby did not associate himself with Frank. To the contrary, he spoke in favor of letting the automakers go into bankruptcy. Are you suggesting Shelby should refuse to appear on the same show as Frank and let Barney have the audience to himself?


26 posted on 11/19/2008 7:40:25 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: GOPJ
I DO NOT want my tax dollars spent giving these union guys better health care (FREE) than the rest of us pay for.

It's worse than that. They are paid full pay and benefits when they are laid off.

27 posted on 11/19/2008 7:43:28 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Barney you ignorant slut. You can break the unions now, by letting GM go into bankruptcy and reorganize. Or you can break them later when you ignorami let gas go to 5 dollars a gallon again and the companies go beneath the waves permanently. Moron.


28 posted on 11/19/2008 7:45:22 AM PST by Enterprise (No Oil for Democrats!)
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To: tgusa

I’m sorry, but we can’t ignore Barney Fwank, as much as we would like to. We got “Alinski’d” and the aggressor chooses the rules of engagement. Unless we are willing to use the same tactics and more they will win. We can do so with the truth, rather than lies as they do.


29 posted on 11/19/2008 7:56:30 AM PST by jdsteel (CONGRESS: Take it again in twenty ten.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Detroit: Barney Worries Bankruptcy Would Bust Unions"

Hey...you've just got to put it in terms that Bawany Fwank can understand...like this...

Hey Bawany...the unions are gonna SUCK the carmakers DRY!

now that we have his undivided attention...
30 posted on 11/19/2008 7:56:37 AM PST by FrankR (Where's Waldo ([W]here [A]re [L]egal [D]ocuments [O]bama? (i.e. birth certificate))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Barney will have to implement his solution of taxing non union plants to level costs and make things equal, as unions are Barney's lifeblood.
31 posted on 11/19/2008 7:59:53 AM PST by hermgem (Will Olmr)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
What. Isn't this the turd that is directly responsible for the melt down of Wall Street. With the help of Dodd, just shut your mouth you a@@. Pelosi, go back to Kalifornia and suck your thumb.

No bailout. Chapter 11 will wake up this auto industry. Who wants every 6 months or less we will pass another 25 billion from now to eternity. They will just continue to leach on our tax system and haven't heard anything that they will change about the Union contracts. If it means millions our of work, then so be it. And those out of work should not get paid during layoff or termination by the company. And what happened to the union dues. Let these nitwit unions pay their layoff or termination benefits while they find a new job. Layoffs are tough, I know I had a couple many years ago. So don't cry on my shoulder.

32 posted on 11/19/2008 8:00:50 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Mr Frank, busting the airline unions was completely necessary, wise, and good. The airline industry survives today thanks in part to that politically difficult call. There are still unions in every airline sector and subsidiary. The same should happen for the auto industry, as well. It's what's best for America, which is wat your focus is supposed to be.

(Did anyone else catch the Barney Frank quote from 2003, where he acknowledged the riskiness of giving loans to underqualified folk, and he said, quote, "I want to roll the dice". Well, Barney, your personal gamble cost the globe about 4 trillion dollars. Now you want to take another one. How nice. How horrible that you'll never be held accountable for your inane policies.)

33 posted on 11/19/2008 8:02:11 AM PST by Teacher317 (Well, at least we know Obama isn't the anti-Christ. Satan would have more class.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“Barney Worries Bankruptcy Would Bust Unions”

Which is exactly why it is the BEST course of action!


34 posted on 11/19/2008 8:03:22 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The bailouts are targeting the biggest campaign contributors, unions, banks and finance, and insurance companies.

Who were Barneys, (congress) biggest campaign contributors.
Conflict of interest.

Say NO!


35 posted on 11/19/2008 8:05:34 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Well, pu88y-lips is used to bending over for everyone else; might as well do it for the UAW.


36 posted on 11/19/2008 8:05:57 AM PST by catchem (NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE STUPIDITY OF THE AMERICAN VOTER!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bar-knee should have thought of the bankruptcy of our nation before he tanked Freddie and Fannie.


37 posted on 11/19/2008 8:06:43 AM PST by madison10
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To: Mogollon
No small feat this meltdown, as a matter of fact it's gigantic as the whole world got dunked into recession by Barney's and his Democrat henchmen.
No, it wasn't Wall Street, since these people stepped onto the scene later to package bad with good mortgages then sell those "U.S. Government secured" mortgage packages to the rest of the world.
38 posted on 11/19/2008 8:12:33 AM PST by hermgem (Will Olmr)
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To: YellowRoseofTx
It's worse than that. They are paid full pay and benefits when they are laid off.

That is not true. Pay is over $35,000 per year before taxes and with early retirement supplement, certainly not "full pay" for an auto worker. They get health benefits, which although great, have been curtailed a great deal.

Why do you think the health care is free?

The MSM has been lying about the autoworker just like they did Joe the Plumber, next they'll be coming for the farmers and teachers.

39 posted on 11/19/2008 8:14:11 AM PST by madison10
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To: Paladin2

Dodson yesterday said it good for the autos paying employees to do nothing. He called it “taking care of employees”. He went as far as saying he Commends them. I almost fell out of my chair.


40 posted on 11/19/2008 8:19:17 AM PST by Orange1998
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