Posted on 03/17/2013 10:54:20 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Hundreds of chanting, jeering municipal union members, armed with piercing black whistles, drowned out Mayor Nutter Thursday as he attempted to give his annual budget address on the floor of City Council.
Rather than forcibly evict the protesterswho are upset over a four-year stalemate in their contract negotiations with the cityCouncil President Darrell L. Clarke recessed the meeting as Nutter read his speech. Nutter later delivered his speech downstairs to a more friendly audienceabout 30 applauding members of his own staff and 20 reporters.
It was the most chaotic Council meeting in more than 30 years, comparable only to the 1981 session that broke down in a fistfight between Council members John Street and Francis Rafferty as they argued over how to resolve a teachers strike.
Nutter said later in the day that he would have continued his delivery, inaudible in chambers, had Clarke not called a recessbut the mayor refused to publicly second-guess that decision.
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If you were to ask the average American if communist agitators are alive and well, they would give you an empty stare. The reality is that they are here, and they have another name: union organizers.
I wouldn’t use satanic tactics like thatand the only time they work for leftists and their allies is when a nation gets away from God (note Leviticus 26:16).
Prayer and fasting towards God is the right thing to do before even setting a course of action. Did anyone notice that we heard nothing about prayer and fasting out of CPAC this year?
Surely you jest.. the american people are generally corrupt..
Obama is just punishment(punishment!).. it is far too late for that..
Time is not for re-modeling the foundation IS GONE.. disintegrated.. weak.. dilapidated..
Buildings are time stamped.. time for a new one..
Are you afraid of the BLOOD it will take?..
Better to fear NOT making the hard choices..
Why there is still TIME to make them.. time is leaking out the bucket as we speak..
You might have noticed that I did not say we shouldn’t act, when necessary; if we are to be like our Founding Fathers, we ought not fear bloodshed at all, or doing what needs to be done to winI’ve often quoted George Washington on here, where he says “it must be known that we are at all times ready for war”. But we do have to pray and fast before God, because we are not sinless to be sure; we do not need Him fighting against us. The very fact that leftists and Islamists rise up against us is due to our getting away from God.
“These commie union losers are going to chant themselves right out of jobs. Someday soon, they will all be gone and this country will be a better place.”
That is what is happening with the municipal cuts here in NJ; it leaves a more affordable place with streets that look like something out of Mogadishu (stop signs obscured by brush, potholes that could eat a small child, etc.). They are spending their current revenues paying for the guys who retired 20 years ago that used to fix the streets and cut back the foliage...
The term "Twinks" is going to take on another meaning...
You might have noticed that I did not say we shouldnt act, when necessary
I know...... I used you as a foil for making a statement..
I don’t believe in miracles... I rely on them..
If America is not punished by Obama.. for crimes too many to count..
God may have to apologize to Sodom... that will NOT happen..
75,000,000+ murdered babies cry out for justice..
America IS BEING punished.. rightfully so...
Stopping the punishment is a pipedream..
“I have long hoped for a time when the left’s coalition of special interest groups (gays, feminists, greens, la razas, peaceniks, unionistas, academics etc.) became a coalition of competing interests. I have also long been disappointed that it hasn’t happened yet.”
It happened here in NJ, as teachers’ unions got 5% raises with property taxes capped at 2%; to balance the budget, thousands of cops and firemen and untenured teachers have lost their jobs over the last few years. Those jobs will never come back, either; the populations they “served” are fleeing the state (and we lost an electoral vote to prove it).
I have long hoped for a time when the lefts coalition of special interest groups (gays, feminists, greens, la razas, peaceniks, unionistas, academics etc.) became a coalition of competing interests. I have also long been disappointed that it hasnt happened yet.
That will NOT happen until SOMEONE makes it happen..
They could easily be divided and conquered...
It just takes the will to DO IT!..
Republicans are too lazy and optimistic.. because they are lazy..
It would take a Cabal of EX-republicans to do it..
Yes, but have they started blaming each other yet? I'm guessing in their minds it's still somehow "Bush's fault."
Bugger perhaps.
How delightful - a ‘rat disrupted by his own supporters....
Oh we could keep going on that one I think...
heh heh heh....
“Yes, but have they started blaming each other yet? I’m guessing in their minds it’s still somehow “Bush’s fault.”
The infighting is becoming more public; cops and firemen think they are just as entitled to taxpayers’ incomes as teachers do, and those laid off will not be finding that kind of work again in NJ for a long time. They no longer blame Bush; they blame Obama (though they should be blaming state, county, and municipal politicians - this would have happened regardless of who was in the White House). NJ was a dying state when W was in office as well; it is a socialist toilet.
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