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Asked About Auto Walkout, Tim Scott Praises Reagan’s Firing of Workers
yahoo ^ | 09/19/2023 | Maggie Astor

Posted on 09/21/2023 8:18:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

So Tim Scott is literally retarded and doesn’t understand the difference between federal workers and private employees?


21 posted on 09/21/2023 8:38:51 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Timmy: The Air Traffic Controllers were federal employees under control of DC and the president.


22 posted on 09/21/2023 8:42:53 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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To: srmanuel

Within 2 seconds, I came up with a response that a true Presidental candidate would use and is a hell of a lot better than what Scott spit out. Basically encourage the two sides to work out differences for the good of the economy and the country. Easy. Next question. How could anyone be faulted for an answer like that? Tim Scott is stupid.


23 posted on 09/21/2023 8:44:27 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: srmanuel

All 3 should build/ revamp their Mexico / out of US factories. And make these the EV exclusive factories. No EV production in US.

Then as the US Gov forces the auto makers to switch to EV Only. The are simultaneously destroying the UAW.

By the time the Gov reverses the decision and allows ICE again. The US plats would have already laid off all employees and gone dark.


24 posted on 09/21/2023 8:45:06 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: econjack
I don't know why the auto companies don't do something similar.

That would be monopolistic collusion in restraint of trade.
25 posted on 09/21/2023 8:48:42 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Union Bosses always demand their members vote Democrat.
Now the Democrats have brought you high inflation so you need more pay to make up for it.

If the Unions go on strike, the Democrats have also flooded the US with illegal aliens ready to take the place of the striking workers.

No matter how this turns out, in the next election I expect the Unions to demand their members vote ...DEMOCRAT.


26 posted on 09/21/2023 8:49:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

That would certainly be 100% better than Scott’s answer, he can basically forget getting any blue collar votes union states, which means he’s got no chance to win anything.

If I were a Republican candidate, I would not be 100% for the workers, but I would be absolutely against the Biden Democratic Policies that are creating the problem, and I would be highly critical of Management for passing around big pay and bonus increases among themselves, while going along with building cars that lose money versus cars that make money.

It would be a way to make the connection between the disaster the Green New Deal will be for average people and the Democrats 100% embrace of this lunacy.


27 posted on 09/21/2023 8:50:42 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Correction..

Unions Are and have always been A wholly owned subsidiary and a prime funding arm of the Democrat party.


28 posted on 09/21/2023 8:54:34 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: mikey_hates_everything

He’s not. Scott is simply a tool for GOP elites who can say they support a black man for President so the media won’t call them white supremacists.


29 posted on 09/21/2023 9:03:58 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: 4Runner

Scott is being stupid here. There’s a huge opportunity to flip a voting block who are protesting EV’s. Why support the management who are bowing to the climate gods?


30 posted on 09/21/2023 9:16:54 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: 4Runner

Exactly.


31 posted on 09/21/2023 9:22:21 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: odawg

You missed the point. If the people strike. They don’t want to work. So...Its simple. Fire them all. Close down the company if you have to. Just fire them.


32 posted on 09/21/2023 9:28:11 AM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Firing employees, whose work was under a government contract that specifically prohibited strikes and was critical to the safety of thousands of air passengers, is completely different than a labor dispute between private companies and a union. On the face it an idiotic remark.


33 posted on 09/21/2023 9:33:54 AM PDT by katana
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To: Dr. Sivana
No, it wouldn't. Monopoly laws (e.g., Sherman Antitrust Law) apply to selling a good or service and even then, you have to control 67% of the market. With respect to labor, the auto companies are a monopsony, or a single buyer of labor, which is also not the case.
34 posted on 09/21/2023 9:52:59 AM PDT by econjack
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To: mikey_hates_everything
I don’t think Tim Scott is very bright.

I also don't think he likes the ladies. Where is Mrs. Scott?

35 posted on 09/21/2023 9:54:25 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Dandy

“You missed the point.”

No, I did not miss the point.

He was plain — fire the workers.

That is really going to help his cause, sure.

I am very much pro-union, by the way. Union bosses have a tendency to be corrupt, but industry leaders are also. Checks and balances.


36 posted on 09/21/2023 11:12:23 AM PDT by odawg
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To: econjack

A huge fraction of America’s automobile factory employees are Free (as in speech) Workers, not beholden to any “union”. Their employers are not likely to do anything that will help the automobile manufacturers who are stuck with union slaves for workers.


37 posted on 09/21/2023 11:22:19 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Dr. Sivana
That would be monopolistic collusion in restraint of trade.

But a "union" going on "strike" is not ...

Thanks for revealing the hidden corruption of current labor law.

38 posted on 09/21/2023 11:24:25 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Thanks for revealing the hidden corruption of current labor law.

Actually, I didn’t. Econjack made appropriate corrections to my prima facie understanding in an ealier post (Though I doubt that the 67% is a hard number).
39 posted on 09/21/2023 11:32:21 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Dr. Sivana
To determine if a firm has “monopoly power,” the lower courts generally require that a firm has a minimum market share of between 70% and 80%, according to the Justice Department.

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/06/17/when-is-a-powerful-company-considered-a-monopoly/

40 posted on 09/21/2023 11:37:44 AM PDT by econjack
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