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The union that hates the Boy Scouts
NY Post ^ | November 21, 2009 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 11/21/2009 3:33:45 AM PST by Scanian

The Boy Scouts' motto is: Be prepared. Who knew it meant preparing to de fend themselves against union thuggery? Kids, pay attention: This is a teachable moment for all of you on power, politics and Big Labor's culture of corruption.

At last week's City Council meeting in Allentown, Pa., a top official of the local Service Employees International Union chapter ranted about 17-year-old Scout Kevin Anderson's park-cleanup work. To earn an Eagle Scout badge, Anderson devoted some 200 hours to picking up trash and helping clear a 1,000-foot walking path with fellow members of Boy Scouts Troop 301 of Center Valley.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andystern; biglabor; boyscouts; bsa; eaglescouts; nickbalzano; pennsylvania; scouting; scouts; seiu; unions

1 posted on 11/21/2009 3:33:49 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Around here they protested the use of prisoners to pick up trash along the roads, to demeaning they said, then they started an ‘adopt a road’ program where people can pick up trash along the roads, I kid you not. It’s too demeaning for a prisoner to do it, but not for a taxpayer!!!!


2 posted on 11/21/2009 3:48:21 AM PST by Waco (Stay as bootiful as ya are Karvile.')
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To: Scanian

Unions have devolved into little more than anachronistic gangs of lazy, malleable thugs with entitlement attitudes.


3 posted on 11/21/2009 3:51:24 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: Scanian

No work gets done without the union being involved. That includes volunteer work.

The SEIU is nothing more than a Democrat Party apparatus.

They don’t represent workers. They only represent CONTROL.


4 posted on 11/21/2009 3:54:21 AM PST by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: Scanian

What one young man is doing would have taken 10 union thugs and three times the hours spent doing the same thing.Unions are the down fall of this country.


5 posted on 11/21/2009 3:54:23 AM PST by bikerman (Buck Farack)
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To: Scanian
Update:

Three days of taking body blows nationally from conservative pundits, a rebuke from the Lehigh Valley's congressman and even a lashing from his own union led Balzano to voluntarily resign his position Thursday as head of the local Service Employees International Union. Balzano said he and seven other executive officers of the local SEIU stepped down.

http://www.mcall.com/news/all-a1_5scout.7091922nov20,0,1983128.story

6 posted on 11/21/2009 3:56:10 AM PST by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: Scanian
In a related story, the Boy Scouts have introduced a new set of merit badges centering around "Sloth and Laziness." The SEIU fully endorses these new merit badges, especially after the Boy Scouts bestowed upon the SEIU members a truckload of honorary badges.


7 posted on 11/21/2009 4:23:32 AM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 34 days away from outliving Lefty Frizzell)
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To: sausageseller

it’s been said...”a house divided cannot stand”.

0bama uses union “strength” when it suits him then promotes volunteerism to take work away from the union.

the problem is, it’s OUR HOUSE that 0bama is dividing!


8 posted on 11/21/2009 5:22:25 AM PST by mreerm
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To: Scanian

Soon the Democrats are going to be making enemies faster than they can vote against them.


9 posted on 11/21/2009 5:29:09 AM PST by Aroostook25
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To: Waco
Same here. We have the Sergeants Majors Association, Warrant Officers Association, VFW, AmVets, Special Forces Association, ....., adopting a stretch of highway. It’s too demeaning for a prisoner to do it, but not for a Patriots!!!!
10 posted on 11/21/2009 6:54:43 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: sausageseller

Glad you posted the update on this story.

Don’t mess with an Eagle Scout candidate. Not only did he clean up a trail in the local park, but he took out the trash too.


11 posted on 11/22/2009 5:16:54 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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