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Thousands gather for Ind. Statehouse union rally (BARF!)
Yahoo! News ^

Posted on 03/10/2011 12:22:53 PM PST by wk4bush2004

INDIANAPOLIS – Union workers, teachers, lawmakers and labor organizers said at a huge Statehouse rally Thursday that Indiana Republicans and GOP leaders nationwide have gone too far in pushing an agenda opponents consider an attack on public education and labor unions.

State police said more than 8,000 people gathered outside the Statehouse at the rally's peak, making it the largest rally at the Indiana Statehouse in years. Nancy Guyott, president of the Indiana AFL-CIO, told the cheering crowd that craftsmen built the Statehouse more than 100 years ago, and that they had returned Thursday to reclaim it.

"The working men and women of Indiana have come back to take back the people's house for the people," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: awjeezntsa; corruption; democrats; liberalfascism; unions
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Oh, they all talk about how great unions are? Let's talk about what unions have done to once-prosperous places in Indiana:

I have (conservative) friends that live in Muncie and when I visited that city, I was shocked at what it looked like. My friends told me that the Democrats and the unions got greedy and held guns to the corporate heads and refused to budge, until the companies finally said, "Screw you," and shut down all the plants and thousands lost their jobs (and not all of them were union sympathizers).

If you want to see a prime example of what unions & Democrats will eventually do to your city, go to MUNCIE, INDIANA!

1 posted on 03/10/2011 12:23:01 PM PST by wk4bush2004
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To: wk4bush2004

They’re getting spread pretty thin these days... LOL


2 posted on 03/10/2011 12:26:43 PM PST by MNlurker
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To: wk4bush2004

I have a time share in Muncie.

Just kidding. Could you imagine?

I’d love to take an abandoned town like Muncie and make my very own Galt’s Gulch right in the center of it....


3 posted on 03/10/2011 12:28:11 PM PST by Noamie
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To: wk4bush2004
Wisconsin will be closing the deal in a couple hours. Ohio will not be far behind. Indiana next?

Hey 'rats, "elections have consequences." While all the media were gibbering about Congress, the real American Revolution was being won in the statehouse elections, which added hundreds of republican lawmakers across the country. The people are beginning to reap the benefits of their common sense votes.

4 posted on 03/10/2011 12:31:34 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: wk4bush2004

The teachers are doing something today in NY NY. Bloomberg wants to cut them. Just saw a lot of cops hanging around city hall about 2 hours ago.I wouldn’t mind if they got so wound up that they rioted. The people would say, this is what we have teaching our kids? They want more what?


5 posted on 03/10/2011 12:34:11 PM PST by brooklyn dave
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What crap. This article is a perfect example of how the journalists color their "objective reporting" to promote an agenda.

This one did a particularly poor job of disguising their bias.

6 posted on 03/10/2011 12:34:28 PM PST by skeeter
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To: wk4bush2004

Funny, the Indiana Senate is not ever in session today. I think the unions picked today for their big rally without realizing there are no legislators in the house.


7 posted on 03/10/2011 12:35:33 PM PST by jaydubya2
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Or Detroit, Cleveland, Youngstown, Buffalo.........


8 posted on 03/10/2011 12:35:43 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: jaydubya2

ever = even


9 posted on 03/10/2011 12:36:37 PM PST by jaydubya2
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To: wk4bush2004

Ummmmm, it’s over, idiots. You lost.


10 posted on 03/10/2011 12:42:59 PM PST by Seruzawa
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Anderson Indiana is even worse than Muncie with vacant industrial sites and multi-empty retail buildings. Very sad.


11 posted on 03/10/2011 12:58:26 PM PST by raisincane (Food and gasoline prices are rising along with my temper.)
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Let them picket on this cloudy, windy and cold day (30s) with a few snow flakes in the air. Most people in downtown Indy are working or a few blocks away at Conseco Fieldhouse where the Big Ten basketball tournament is currently underway.

These union protesters should head to Anderson, IN, northeast of Indy, and view the open fields on St. Rd. 109 where thousands of union workers used to be employed by GM’s Delco Remy. The unions priced themselves out of those jobs and the old factory buildings have all been razed.


12 posted on 03/10/2011 1:01:22 PM PST by conservativehoosier
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Don’t these people have jobs?


13 posted on 03/10/2011 1:02:55 PM PST by muddler (Diligentia, Vis and Celeritas)
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Part of what is orchestrated and planned for every-where.
 
Pic below is an ad that has been making the rounds in newspapers in my area (TX).
 
 
 
 
They're not even trying to hide the connection to pResident W.T.F.
 
 
 

14 posted on 03/10/2011 1:09:50 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: skeeter

What crap. This article is a perfect example of how the journalists color their “objective reporting” to promote an agenda. This one did a particularly poor job of disguising their bias.

Everything they write is loaded, hysterical, fly ridden caca.


15 posted on 03/10/2011 1:29:23 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Noamie

Lake Buena Vista, Daytona, I could maybe see, but how many would invest money for continuing vacations in Muncie?


16 posted on 03/10/2011 1:34:20 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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Time for Indiana to do what Wisconsin did. Ignore the d’Rats and “gitter done.” Done with compromise. They LOST and elections have consequences.


17 posted on 03/10/2011 1:50:27 PM PST by Pat4ever (2010-Flipped the House, White House is Next!)
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“If you want to see a prime example of what unions & Democrats will eventually do to your city, go to MUNCIE, INDIANA!”

Ball Corporation (The folks that made Ball canning Jars) finally said enough, closed the plant, and moved it’s HQ to Denver


18 posted on 03/10/2011 1:57:43 PM PST by tcrlaf (Democrats Outforced America's Jobs for 40 Years. Now The Bill Is Due)
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To: wk4bush2004

Anderson, too.

At one time, 25,000 GM jobs.

today.....0


19 posted on 03/10/2011 4:42:09 PM PST by digger48
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Anderson, too.

At one time, 25,000 GM jobs.

today.....0


20 posted on 03/10/2011 4:42:13 PM PST by digger48
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