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Obama criticizes Michigan right-to-work bills
Town Hall ^ | 12/10/12 | AP News

Posted on 12/10/2012 12:27:09 PM PST by Nachum

REDFORD, Mich. (AP) — President Barack Obama says right-to-work legislation in Michigan is more about politics than economics. He is criticizing a measure that would prevent requiring non-union employees to financially support unions at their workplace.

Obama received loud applause at a Michigan engine plant when he said we shouldn't be "taking away your rights to bargain for better wages and working conditions."

The president says that the right-to-work bills are more about "giving you the right to work for less money."

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To: HawkHogan
Hood organizin’ don’t pay too good.

Hussein and The Wookie were both given barely-show-up jobs by the Chicago establishment. Her job paid especially well.

41 posted on 12/10/2012 3:01:15 PM PST by Jacquerie ("How few were left who had seen the republic!" - Tacitus, The Annals)
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To: dennisw
Four more years of this maggot...agony. Maybe a meteor will hit DC and level it

I vote for meteor as well.

42 posted on 12/10/2012 3:06:05 PM PST by Walmartian (I'm their leader. Which way did they go?)
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To: cripplecreek
Warren are calling in sick tomorrow and closing down schools.

Yep, just heard that on the news.......

43 posted on 12/10/2012 3:12:09 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: cripplecreek
Warren are calling in sick tomorrow and closing down schools.

Yep, just heard that on the news.......

And the local news is giving 100% coverage to the unions and their plans........

44 posted on 12/10/2012 3:17:24 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: dennisw

I don’t believe that he will leave at the end of 4 years. But if he does, so what? obama is not the problem, the problem is the parasites and traitors that elect him. And I don’t see the i.q. of the Nation raising in the next 4 years. What the results of November 6, 2012 told anyon with enough sense to geyt in out of th rain is, that as a Nation, we do not have the intelligence to make out day to day decisions, that a Governmental Bureaucrat will have to make these decisions.


45 posted on 12/10/2012 3:18:17 PM PST by sport
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To: Nachum

Note the use of unions as the battering ram.

We saw this in .wisconsin earlier this year. the people prevailed in WI in spite of the threats and vote fraud.

The unions under Leo Girard and Valerie Jarrett is one of the prime powers behind Zero the sock puppet.

Follow the money. OUR tax money goes to unions, which then recycles it to the Democrat Party, which uses it to increase their power.

Before it was below the radar. ow, it is front and center thanks to Zero’s re-election.

And where is the response from the Pubs? not the MI GOP, which is doing th right thing, but the national GOP?

You see Reid and Levin opening their traps, why aren’t they being shut down by Republican Senators.

Those 800 FBI files that Hillary stole must still be paying big dividends.


46 posted on 12/10/2012 3:19:21 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82
And where is the response from the Pubs? not the MI GOP, which is doing th right thing, but the national GOP?

I'd like to see other state legislatures and governors start standing together on this.
47 posted on 12/10/2012 3:21:42 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
reminding America that the 17th amendment was a disaster

Indeed it was, and the 16th and 19th weren't a whole lot better

48 posted on 12/10/2012 3:31:14 PM PST by Marathoner (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Nachum

The obama plan:

“Under MY plan, union bosses will be allowed to come to your house in the middle of the night with guns and collect union dues from you even if you aren’t in the union. I just hope no women kids get hurt if you don’t pay up. They will also be allowed to blow up your car if you give them any lip. This will increase auto sales and be good for the economy.

Also under MY plan, the unions will donate 50% of those dues to my third term re-election campaign. If they don’t do that, I will send my people to their house to collect. I just hope no women kids get hurt.”


49 posted on 12/10/2012 3:59:18 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Nachum
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Ohio has a Repub governor, and they control both houses of the legislature. Ohio should be the next Right-to-Work. And Wisconsin should adopt full right to work.

Each state that goes Right to Work further damages the Dems fundraising and number of election workers.

50 posted on 12/10/2012 4:11:35 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Nachum

So, Liberals think that choice is the holy grail of all human rights when it comes to a woman’s right to murder her unborn child but they think you shouldn’t have a choice when joining a union.

What an I missing here?


51 posted on 12/10/2012 4:13:04 PM PST by Carbonsteel
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To: Carbonsteel

Obama called it a “Right to work for less”

Assuming that were true, why in the hell does he think he needs to interfere with my right to work for less. He seems to think “the rich” should work for less.


52 posted on 12/10/2012 4:26:49 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

“An assault on unions”

Dingy Harry finally gets it.


53 posted on 12/10/2012 7:12:00 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
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To: Nachum

>> The president says that the right-to-work bills are more about “giving you the right to work for less money.”

Kinda’ like giving millions of citizens the right to be unemployment...


54 posted on 12/10/2012 7:18:34 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: cripplecreek

Oh, do I detect some stones here by the Michigan GOP? Boehner, please pay attention!


55 posted on 12/10/2012 9:50:22 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: livius

So do I.


56 posted on 12/12/2012 12:54:42 AM PST by itssme
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To: HawkHogan
bozo just cleaned the erasers and hung around the teacher's lounge...a lounge lizard they called him. There he gooooes...slither, slither.
57 posted on 12/12/2012 12:58:52 AM PST by itssme
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To: Nachum
The president says that the right-to-work bills are more about "giving you the right to work for less money."

What about giving you the right to work for companies that are actually still in business?

58 posted on 12/12/2012 1:16:29 AM PST by Fresh Wind
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To: dennisw

I was in DC some years ago when the land next to the Capitol building was a giant pit, due to the construction of the visitor’s center. Good idea I thought, just forget the construction and concentrate on expanding the pit. That was my last visit, so I still envision that pit. Every SOTU speech since, I’ve wondered if a sinkhole will swallow up the chamber.


59 posted on 12/12/2012 1:32:11 AM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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