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Obama strongly disapproves of public union limits
AP/WorldMag ^ | Apr 26, 11:09 PM EDT

Posted on 04/26/2011 8:28:23 PM PDT by quantim

CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he strongly disapproves of new laws restricting public employee unions in Ohio and Wisconsin and says states should not use the financial crisis as an excuse to erode bargaining rights.

He tells Romona Robinson of Cleveland's WKYC-TV in a White House interview Tuesday public employees should not be blamed for a financial crisis they had nothing to do with and sacrifices should be shared in tough economic times.

Under Ohio's new law, 350,000 public workers can negotiate wages and certain work conditions but not health care, sick time or pension benefits. Opponents hope to ask voters to overturn the measure.

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More class warfare starting the 2012 campaign.
1 posted on 04/26/2011 8:28:27 PM PDT by quantim
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To: quantim
Americans Obama strongly disapproves of public union limits Obama.
2 posted on 04/26/2011 8:29:48 PM PDT by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: quantim

FUBO....unions are only 13% of the working population....YOU WILL LOSE.


3 posted on 04/26/2011 8:30:25 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Unlike the West, the Islamic world is serious.)
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To: Nachum

ping


4 posted on 04/26/2011 8:30:55 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Prayers for missing Marizela Perez. Prayers for her safe return.)
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To: quantim

F this guy.
Its a childish response but its whats deep in my gut. To put it bluntly he is an enemy of this country.


5 posted on 04/26/2011 8:32:02 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: quantim

No surprise; that’s pretty much what Lenin thought, too.


6 posted on 04/26/2011 8:32:07 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Union thugs versus the rest of the country.

Wonder how that will turn out?

7 posted on 04/26/2011 8:32:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
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To: quantim

Who gives two craps what an African dictator thinks?


8 posted on 04/26/2011 8:32:43 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: quantim

BHO——FU


9 posted on 04/26/2011 8:33:14 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose lips sink ships!)
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Only the best for his SS troops...


10 posted on 04/26/2011 8:33:31 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: quantim

Obama is a Marxist idiot.


11 posted on 04/26/2011 8:33:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: hillarys cankles

Obama go back to the Kenyan hole you crawled out of, Unions suck and I hope other States will start to vote in Right to Work Laws.


12 posted on 04/26/2011 8:34:35 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: quantim

According to Zero everyone must “share sacrifice”.....except the unions.....


13 posted on 04/26/2011 8:35:25 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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Folks like Scott Walker need to hang strong. We can’t abandon them. Unions are getting madder and they control the police, the schools, and so much more. We must stand strong.


14 posted on 04/26/2011 8:37:22 PM PDT by commonguymd (Freedom is a myth anymore it seems)
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Perhaps if 0bama did something to fix the economy then the political capital needed to pass these limits would not exist.


15 posted on 04/26/2011 8:38:19 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: quantim

I just read that 80% of Californians support public employee pension reform. Eighty-percent of *Californians*! Times are changing quickly as pension abuses such as spiking are revealed. . .


16 posted on 04/26/2011 8:38:41 PM PDT by olivia3boys
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If this is how the WH thinks they need to run the campaign, they are in very deep trouble. This dope should already have the base behind him and be working on getting the independents. All this class warfare BS doesn’t play anymore except for the radical left. Results and accomplishments are what people want to see and he has none.


17 posted on 04/26/2011 8:39:03 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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I'm not a real Bolshevik, but TOTUS makes me play one on TV. Oh, wait... I really am a Bolshevik.

18 posted on 04/26/2011 8:40:09 PM PDT by newheart (The trouble ain't too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. -Mark Twain)
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To: quantim

The Liberal Messiah defending unions is as newsworthy as is the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun and that 2 + 2 = 4.


19 posted on 04/26/2011 8:40:26 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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“...states should not use the financial crisis as an excuse to erode bargaining rights.”

On the contrary, we should never let a good crisis go to waste.


20 posted on 04/26/2011 8:40:34 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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