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“The nation[U.S.] has over $2 trillion in infrastructure and social needs, and there is over $3 trillion in public sector pension funds,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and the leader of a group of public sector unions in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. that is studying the issue. “The question is, are there financially prudent ways to invest working men’s and women’s capital to create jobs and rebuild America’s infrastructure?” [end excerpt] Source

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AFL-CIO Announces Commitment to Promote Large-Scale Infrastructure Investments …….AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said:

”We at the AFL-CIO believe that together, with our partners in business and government, we can profitably invest at least $10 billion in workers’ capital over the next five years in public infrastructure projects to make America more competitive and energy-efficient.”

AFT [American Federation of Teachers 1.5 million members] President Randi Weingarten and AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades President Mark Ayers will announce the initiative at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting and describe the partnership with investors, the government and businesses.

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Teachers Union Prez Heads to Egypt: Should Obama Be Worried? …. [AFT] American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten recently led a delegation of union representatives to Cairo, Egypt to meet with “leaders of Egyptian unions that were instrumental in the recent political and governmental changes there,” according to a news release issued by the union.

Whoa. Are public sector unions planning a similar “regime change” here in America?

If not, why would Weingarten be cavorting in the Middle East at a time when American public schools are seeing massive dropout rates, budget reductions and reforms that strike at the base of union power?.....”

1 posted on 09/11/2011 8:30:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This is another evil plan by these commies.


2 posted on 09/11/2011 8:37:42 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Stay focused on the Obama agenda....starting with Ms. Pelosi insisting America blindly pass the health care bill: (Nancy Pelosi: We Need to Pass Health Care Bill to Find Out What’s In It)...get past the ads.

(...How Many Times Did He Say 'Pass the Bill'? -- VIDEO)

Rather than acting like a president, Obama acts just like an Union organizer or a community organizer....America has a Marxist/Socialist man as POTUS.

3 posted on 09/11/2011 8:42:34 AM PDT by yoe
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The TARP and stimulus monies you took from us didn't go to squat to improve the economy.
 
The two Quantitative easings you have done didn't improve anything.
 
You want more monies?  Well, you do have a sense of humor.
 
But, really, is your scam all that funny?
 
"Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." The Council, led by GE's Jeffrey Immelt, erupted in laughter.

The Obama administration promised the Recovery Act ("the stimulus") would prevent the jobless rate from going over 8%. It now stands at 9.1%.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVonk_OqEUU
 
 

7 posted on 09/11/2011 8:47:25 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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Oh....this explains why Chris Matthews was carrying on about this. Good old Chris.....always carrying the water for the Democrats.


9 posted on 09/11/2011 8:56:10 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Quack, waddle...

Economy of the Soviet Union

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...Based on a system of state ownership, the Soviet economy was managed through Gosplan (the State Planning Commission), Gosbank (the State Bank) and the Gossnab (State Commission for Materials and Equipment Supply). Beginning in 1928, the economy was directed by a series of five-year plans...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union
 
Gosplan... Gosbank...Gossnab... Texas Enterprise Fund.
 
..."from each  (D)uck according to its ability, to each (D)uck according to its need"
 
 
"...According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare.
 
What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
 
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
 
The first stage being "demoralization".  [Got Liar Loans?]
 
It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.  Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism..."
 
--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov
--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2095202/posts
 
 
 
Pot, frog - boiling yet?
 
 
 

12 posted on 09/11/2011 9:02:39 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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Lots of DC bureaucrats are ready to grab their slice of the money pie leaving only crumbs. Why doesn't Barry just cut the unions a check and stop with all of the ‘jobs’ flimflam?
14 posted on 09/11/2011 9:20:29 AM PDT by JPG (Palin '12)
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