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A union fat cat as 'fiscal watchdog'
NY Post ^ | March 3, 2010 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 03/03/2010 3:36:28 AM PST by Scanian

Everything you need to know about President Obama's commitment to fiscal responsibility and cost containment can be summed up in two words: Andy Stern.

Stern is the corruption-coddling head of the powerful Service Employees International Union. In naming Stern and others to the White House debt commission last week, Obama extolled his appointees as "distinguished individuals" who'll bring a "sense of integrity" to the job. Tell that to rank-and-file SEIU members across the country who have watched their hard-earned dues go down the tubes under Stern's thugocracy.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: debtcommission; obama; seiu; stern

1 posted on 03/03/2010 3:36:30 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Andy Stern is playing so hard he better hope Obama holds office. He could go down like Hoffa.


2 posted on 03/03/2010 3:43:27 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Scanian

Great piece by Malkin...as usual. Frankly, I think Glenn Beck said it best when he pointed out that Stern’s appointment to this stupid, show-commission proves that Obama simply isn’t serious about debt reduction.


3 posted on 03/03/2010 3:44:32 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: Scanian

Glenn Beck showed what has happened to SEIU pension funds since Stern has been at the helm. They’re in freefall.


4 posted on 03/03/2010 3:44:38 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: Scanian

“Fat Cat”???? He’s a Union Mobster Capo.

The only Govt seat *he* should be sitting in, is “Ol’ Sparky”!


5 posted on 03/03/2010 3:52:31 AM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: RightOnline

I am concerned for Glenn Beck’s life. From what I can see, Beck is the ONLY ONE exposing the ugly truth about Obama’s despicable agenda. Our America is crumbling before our eyes. Meanwhile the republicans and dems bicker and fight like sophomores.


6 posted on 03/03/2010 3:56:44 AM PST by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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Folks, this is an exact quote from Andy Stern to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said during the time SEIU was targeting this institution for unionization:

""We will unionize your workforce, or we will destroy your reputation." Andrew Stern, SEIU President

This is their attitude towards people who are sick and undergoing treatment, that they will use them and their condition as simply a tool to achieve their goals.

7 posted on 03/03/2010 3:58:00 AM PST by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: rlmorel
Direct quote from the SEIU bylaws.

We must organize unorganized Healthcare workers, extending to them the gains of unionism while securing control over the Healthcare industry.

SEIU bylaws pdf
8 posted on 03/03/2010 3:59:40 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: cripplecreek

One would think the SEIU membership - sheep though they may be - would be ballistic about his public/private excesses. Guess they feel he’ll get them better payoffs besides just pension stuff. Course, the “little” ones will suffer while the stewards on up get cream.


9 posted on 03/03/2010 4:10:33 AM PST by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: bossmechanic

If you look at the SEIU bylaws you’ll see that the SEIU has very little member control. A good many of those members never even had a choice about joining.


10 posted on 03/03/2010 4:16:47 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: RightOnline
Stern's appointment is also another reminder that Obama doesn't get that the goal of America, her citizens, her businesses (indeed, the goal of life itself) is "excellence of performance." That is how the free market system operates...that is how nature operates.

If you don't outrun the competition...you end up not having dinner but being dinner.

Obama defines success not as excellence of performance but as the ownership of power blocs and control.

In Obama's world, there is no accountability or competition to improve performance...there is only control and extortion.

He is quite ill IMO.

11 posted on 03/03/2010 4:21:33 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
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To: RightOnline

I think John Fund hit the nail on the head when he said that Zer0 plans to hold a lame duck congressional session after Nov. 2 to implement the suggestions of the “commission,” most of which will come straight from the White House.

As usual, he is looking for ways to screw the taxpayers while having the ability to blame somebody else for it.


12 posted on 03/03/2010 4:56:25 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Anti-Bubba182
Andy Stern is playing so hard he better hope Obama holds office. He could go down like Hoffa.

During Phase I, Meany, Fitzsimmons and others were in bed with Nixon. Comes Phase II, only Fitzsimmons continued to play ball with the WH.......Hoffa was pardoned shortly thereafter.

13 posted on 03/03/2010 6:50:11 AM PST by Roccus (Hawaii Hall of Records safe from tsunami......Obama saddened.)
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