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To: chessplayer

WINNING!!


4 posted on 11/17/2012 9:55:09 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

99 weeks of unemployment will help. Maybe the Democrats can extend it to 150?


12 posted on 11/17/2012 9:56:50 AM PST by oldironsides
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To: cripplecreek

The Role of the Labor Unions in the Russian Revolution

www.marxists.org/archive/lozovsky/1920/russrevunion.htm

But up to the Revolution in 1905 there were no labor unions in Russia. There were .... The Russian Communist party inspired and led them. The unions and the


20 posted on 11/17/2012 10:00:59 AM PST by NEBO (Hitler, Che, Marx, Mao,Lenin and Stalin would be so jealous of Obama!)
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To: cripplecreek

LMAO.....


66 posted on 11/17/2012 11:41:34 AM PST by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Romney & Ryan.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: cripplecreek

Borg Warner here in Muncie, IN (remember Muncee transmission decals on hotrods?) did the same thing a few years ago. The union wouldn’t budge, so they closed their doors.
One of my neighbors was three months from her pension vesting and there wasn’t anywhere to transfer so she gets about $300 instead of 2K a month. Talk about cutting off your nose ...
As you mentioned the other day, it also hurt a lot of other `spin-off’ businesses around them as well—the taverns, breakfast cafes, etc. Lots of negative externalities, to use the economists’ and urban planners’ term.

But the important thing is, they “won”. Heh.

(Yeah, in a wacky union empyrrhricst kind of thinking. I’m trying to remember the quote, “Too many more victories like this ... “ and we’re toast?)


74 posted on 11/17/2012 12:10:13 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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