Posted on 03/01/2011 8:42:24 AM PST by Qbert
“I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified, or their rights are infringed upon."
-- President Obama speaking to the members of the National Governors’ Association
President Obama and his administration have jumped back into the fray on the Wisconsin budget stalemate on the side of protesting workers and fugitive Democratic lawmakers.
In his remarks to the nation’s governors gathered at the White House, Obama volunteered his concerns that public employees were being “denigrated or vilified” and cautioned against infringing upon their rights.
That follows weekend remarks by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who the Washington Examiner reports fired up the crowd at the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee by shouting that the “fight is on” for "our brothers and sisters in public employee unions."
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And, as has been oft discussed, this is a huge political issue for 2012. Wisconsin and Ohio are swing states and public worker unions are the most important Democratic constituency, providing the largest bloc of the party’s financial support, reliable votes and ground troops for getting out other voters. A loss here for Democrats and unions would be a damaging blow to Obama’s reelection hopes. Obama needs a union win and needs to show his union patrons that he is with them in the struggle.
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The Obama administration has worsened the plight of those governors with new obligations under Medicaid and, ironically, through the generous bailouts he has obtained for their states.
State governments were the largest single recipients of cash from Obama’s February, 2009 stimulus package. States received an estimated $160 billion out of the $787 billion package. Then, in August of 2010 the president pushed through another $26 billion in state aid aimed at preventing government worker layoffs.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Obama joins a battle of wits unarmed.
“The Wisconsin Governor has responded to the President’s comments. The Governor’s Press Secretary Cullen Werwie issued the following statement:”
Now, that’s how it’s supposed to be done.
Obviously Valerie Jarrett read this mornings NY Times poll about the supposed popularity of Scott Walker’s actions in Wisconsin.
Yes, some public employees are more equal than others.
Excellent point!
Obama versus The Straw Man, Part 2 Thousand and Counting.
Says the person who has no problem denigrating and vilifying groups he doesn't like.
"The fight is on...for our brothers and sisters in public employee unions."
I guess those of us who aren't in unions have been kicked out of the family. Isn't this the most incredibly inappropriate language for someone in the executive branch to be using?
there is a link to send a fax to the Governor.
You can sign the Open Letter to Governor Scott Walker and encourage him to stand strong against Big Labor.
Sponsored by the National Right to Work Committee:
http://righttoworkcommittee.org/walker_openletter.aspx?pid=wol3
Pass it along FReely
Free association is what I heard someone say yesterday when asked that question. Don’t know if that really applies but it seems that is the answer they handed out for that one.
Yep the union owned punk is still on duty 24/7/365.
“What rights are being infringed upon? The unions’ rights to free speech or free press? Their rights to bear arms? The laborers’ rights to practice their religion? Could somebody please answer this question for me? What Constitutional right does one have to belong to a union?”
—There in no federal constitutional right (and the existence of right to work states backs this up).
But imagine the outrage from the Left if Republican governors around the nation pulled an Obama, and unilaterally declared forced-unionism to be unconstitutional (as Obama did with DOMA), and said they would no longer enforce it...
The US Constitution does not provide for freedom of association. Even if it did, that would mean that people have the freedom to not associate with unions.
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