Posted on 05/13/2015 6:19:40 AM PDT by xzins
If unions were common sense, I wouldn’t even mind them. As it is they became political gophers for democrats AND they implemented insanity in their workplace rules and insanity in their wage negotiations.
Everyone has the right to join with others to make their case. But when their case is irrational, then they lose credibility.
The other issue is whether free trade is a net plus for America's economy. I would argue that as long as other nations manipulate their currencies to make their goods artificially cheaper for export, we have no business giving those countries a level playing field at our end unilaterally. Those who argue that this agreement should have a clause to impose tariffs on currency manipulators are on the right track.
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
...in our friend Matt Boyle's analysis "It wasn't until Sessions forcibly took control of the party message heading into the 2014 midterm elections that Republicans won big time, taking back the U.S. Senate and enlarging their House majority. That only came after a year plus of GOP infighting while Ryan, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush joined forces with Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), pushing open borders immigration policies coupled with amnesty via the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill." While the Senate passed the bill in a bloody process, noted Boyle, the House never took up the immigration bill -- and the 113th Congress came and went without any amnesty passed into law. Republicans won big as they railed against President Obama's then-just-planned executive amnesty -- which he went ahead and did anyway despite every inside-the-beltway political prognosticator being wrong about the necessity of Gang of Eight style "immigration reform" for the GOP's survival as a political party Boyle concluded. And Boyle is right -- almost all of the Republican candidates for President have come out against all or part of the Big Business open borders agenda -- the notable exceptions being Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.
Everyone has the right to join with others to make their case. But when their case is irrational, then they lose credibility.
Agreed, but the issue that's being debated is not whether voluntary union membership should be legal (never in dispute), but whether workers should be forced to join unions against their will. "Right to Work" doesn't outlaw unions, it outlaws making union membership mandatory. Everyone has the right to join any organization voluntarily, but nobody should be forced to join one against his will.
And incidentally, why is it that you never spam any threads with pro-immigration quotes from Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, and other Republicans who are even more liberal on the issue?
Big Bump! He is a great representative of the American people. Thank You Alabama.
I’ve been a fan of Sessions ever since he opposed TARP in 2008, when most establishment Republicans and Democrats alike were all in favor of using tax dollars to bail out failing investment banks. It always seems like Democrats and Republicans can quarrel over nothing, but march lockstep when it comes to policies that really screw us, whether it’s “free trade” with currency manipulating nations, taxpayer funded bail-outs for bankers, or amnesty for illegal immigrants.
There are a lot of folks here that hated Ron Paul and they have transferred that hatred to Ron's son Rand Paul. Very medieval to hate the son for the sins of the father, IMHO. Rand Paul is one of the most conservative members of the US Senate. He's right there with Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions. He's made a few missteps but over all he is a reliable conservative vote in the US Senate.
I still get mad thinking about TARP, TARP convinced me that our federal government was totally corrupt and owned lock stock and barrel by big banking.
I can't stand Jeb Bush (and wasn't a fan of his brother either), but I don't spam every single thread on this forum with pro-illegal immigrant quotes from the Bushes. If I did, that wouldn't be dislike or disagreement, it would be obsessive psychosis. That's probably the case with this sunken guy.
It was also one of the many issues that revealed the Democrat vs. Republican choice is mostly a sham, apart from a few principled stalwarts like Sessions.
Jeff Sessions is the one Senator I trust.
I wish he were running for President.
Any explanation why Ted Cruz voted for this TPP?
Seems like the Democrats in R jerseys are working harder for Obama on this than real Democrats and that sets off all kinds of alarm bells.
That was very disappointing, and something of a surprise. I think what he said was that his support for free trade trumps any reservations he has over giving Obama fast track authority. As far as I'm concerned, he's wrong on both counts.
On the other hand, have ANY of the Republican candidates or likely candidates spoken out against this? Scott Walker perhaps?
I don’t spam, ever.
I certainly don’t spam “every single FR thread”, an accusation which, by the way, makes you demonstrably a liar.
Why are you such a buttboy for Rand Paul that you make an ad hominem attack which is so demonstrably false?
Why don’t you spend your time more productively?
While the Senate passed the bill in a bloody process, noted Boyle, the House never took up the immigration bill -- and the 113th Congress came and went without any amnesty passed into law.
Rand Paul is a Democrat in all but name, and a demagogue — just exactly like his old man. There’s still a residue of FINOs who keep pushing him as if he’s conservative.
Why are you such a buttboy for Rand Paul that you make an ad hominem attack which is so demonstrably false?
You really are beyond pathetic. First, I'm not a Rand Paul supporter (will probably vote for either Walker or Cruz in the primaries), I just don't have your psychotic obsession with him or with anyone else. Frankly, if I spent as much time obsessing over anyone as you do him, I'd see a shrink. So I repeat my initial question: why does only Rand's support for illegals bother you, but not the even louder support for illegals from Jeb, Rubio, or your neocon gurus?
Second, isn't it a little ironic to accuse me of making ad hominem attacks when you engage in juvenile name-calling like "butt-boy"?
I certainly don’t spam “every single FR thread”, an accusation which, by the way, makes you demonstrably a liar.
OK, if you want to play childish semantic games, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that it's not every single thread, just disproportionately many. Happy? Now kindly take your little tantrum somewhere else.
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