Posted on 07/20/2011 9:51:04 PM PDT by kcvl
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's rocky relationship with unions took a few more lumps Wednesday as labor groups pounded both a deficit-cutting proposal he embraced as well as the White House's praise of Walmart.
AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka started by hammering the Gang of Six proposal released Tuesday that would cut the deficit by $3.7 trillion over 10 years, in part by limiting popular middle class deductions for home mortgages, health insurance and retirement savings -- a plan Obama hailed Tuesday.
"Both parties keep telling us that deficit reduction requires 'tough choices' and 'shared sacrifice' and 'taking on sacred cows,'" Trumka said. "But then we keep seeing bipartisan support for plans like the so-called 'Gang of Six' that cut Social Security benefits, kill jobs, give tax incentives for corporations to export good jobs overseas, tax health benefits, and lower tax rates for billionaires and corporations."
"There’s no shared sacrifice here," he added. "The only sacred cows being gored are working people, the middle class, seniors and the poor."
Then the unions hit the White House with a triple-barreled shot for holding a major event with Walmart -- a company that was once a villain for Obama when he ran for office.
In this case, First Lady Michelle Obama praised the retailer for joining in her efforts to combat childhood obesity by opening hundreds of stores in "food deserts" -- neighborhoods that lack outlets that sell decent Food or the basic ingredients for healthy eating.
"If parents can't buy the food they need to prepare those meals, if their only options for groceries are in the corner gas station or the local minimart, then all that is just talk," Obama said.
She added praise for Walmart's executives and others for taking the plunge. "They didn’t do this just as executives who care about their company’s bottom lines -- and I’ve met these people," Obama said. "They did it as parents and as grandparents who care about the health of our kids. They did it as leaders who care about our country’s future."
But that did not outweigh what the unions see as Walmart's terrible labor record. The AFL-CIO, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and the SEIU all slammed Walmart's inclusion.
Yep, the liberal view is that Wal-Mart is evil.
Trumka is evil therefore the Unions are evil...
YES... ALL OF THEM... even yours..
Wait, am I missing something? The deficit is 1.5 trillion per yer, or another 15 trillion in 10 years. We’re planning to cut that 15 trillion down to about 12 trillion? So we’ll only be 25 trillion in the red in 2021. Yay.
Sounds to me like the collectivists have the republicans by the nads and are advancing their plan unhindered.
To LOL or barf? That is the question....
My wife works for walmart. Says the store shes working at is infested with liberals.
It’s not hard for my wife to rise to the top and get promoted. While all the liberals are pulling on her legs to slow down because it makes them look bad when she works circles around them.
well... he did let them get UBL.
Although I am not sure he could have stopped them.
Well, why would good liberals work at Wal-Mart, if Wal-Mart is evil, because of resisting unions and other such crimes against liberal ideology?
oh well, we know liberals can be hypocrites. Look at Al Gore and his carbon footprint. Heck Al even said we should limit the number of children we all have, to save the earth. He had four kids, far above the suggested “replacement level” of two. Again, we can’t hold good liberals to their own standards.
we got ubl in spite of Oepicfailo.
you know the stories - he wouldn’t do it and wouldn’t give the order... until someone just did it.
who you gonna believe?
I still say he’s failed at EVERYthing. And that’s hard! Unless he’s doing it on purpose.
I think the logic is to get them embedded. Then hit walmart with card check once it passes.
The charades are just starting.
The communists are “bashing” Ubanga so Ubanga doesn’t look like a communist. No, he’s just a regular American.
Wow. How clever. Everybody will fall for this.
(yawn)
I can agree with Trumka that the Gang of Six is nothing less than making the middle class share the sacrifice.
It is all purposeful be assured
“Nobody who makes less than $250,000 will see their taxes go up a single dime”.
Well, he was right in they will go up a whole lot more than a dime. Before it is all said and done, taxes will be the highest in history with both PUBs and RATs complicit in the crime.
BTW, Dick Morris on BOR last night predicted that the government will shut down and that 25% of “services” will stop. He then added that people don’t care.
Couldnt think of a better Moniker for Obama,”Corner Grocer Obama” Junk food Maven Both him and His Wife
They might smack him now but on election day they’ll smack (kiss) him in the voting booth.
How bad was the gang of 6 plan that a commie scumbag like Trumpka is against it?
On the contrary, I think he is succeeding and he is doing it on purpose. He hates this country and everything it stands for, and he's trying his best to destroy it before our very eyes. And it's all that we can do (those of us that still care) to resist his efforts and do what we can to reverse the damage.
If you meet ANYONE who still supports this demon as our president, KNOW in your mind that they also are a determined enemy of this country.
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