U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is pictured at a protest rally calling for
an end to the U.S. government shut down on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 10, 2013.
Posted on 10/10/2013 6:28:50 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
WASHINGTON - Despite a steady rain, about 250 laid-off federal workers rallied on Capitol Hill Thursday to protest the ongoing shutdown of much of the federal government.
Organized by at least two unions, the speakers and attendees blamed Tea Party Republicans for the legislative gridlock that has failed to produce spending authority.
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson likened the conservative hard-liners to Civil War insurrectionists.
"They lost the battle on the field in 1863," Jackson told the crowd. "They lost the battle at the polls in 2012. They must not take our government."
Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi (D-- Calif.) predicted enough moderate Republicans would break ranks to support a "clean" budget bill.
"We, the Democrats in the House of Representatives, have been willing -- have been willing -- to give them 200 votes to open up government," declared Pelosi before beginning a repetitive chant: "Give us a vote! Give us a vote! Give us a vote! Give us a vote!"
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You’ll thank them later when you’r not paying 25 - 33 % of your paycheck towards our “affordable healhcare”....
Organized by at least two unions …Astroturfing for the press. These unions must have gotten some big exemptions from Zerocare too.
You’ll thank them later when you’r not paying 25 - 33 % of your paycheck towards your “affordable healhcare”....
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90% of my fellow federal workers blame Obama. It’s a Law Enforcement Agency soooooo.....
So what? They can get a real job and grow up.
You’re welcome you pampered pricks.
Obama thinks he is a modern Lincoln, but elected to free us from freedom.
Making such a comparison as Jackson did is ignorant and hateful beyond reproach. What a complete, total and abysmal scumbag. He can’t return to the pit soon enough.
For catching them in a massive tax payer scam! They get UNFUNDED unemployment benefits from the state tax payers, and then get back pay on top of that from the federal tax payers. They're stealing their vacation freebies from us twice!
I blame the laid off federal employees for the shutdown. These perpetually flatulating public servants need to STHU. When Americans want any crap out of government employees, we’ll unscrew their heads and dip it out.
And we blame them for incompetence.
They hate us anyway. Let them. Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
Perhaps they'll catch cold and die.
I blame federal workers for the money they steal from me. I wish I could sell their organs to get my money back. How about that union thugs?
“They lost the battle at the polls in 2012. They must not take our government.”
Somehow they missed the fact that Republicans won the battle for the House in 2012.
LOL
As far as I’m concerned laid-off “non-essential” federal employees should be fired - permanently.
Only essential operations of government and those essential to those functions should be working for the government.
The Federal Goobermint is NOT a jobs program!!!!
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