[martosko]

Where's the "civility"? Did Obama leave it in his other pants?

[KeyLargo]

Teamsters’ Vegas Convention Calls for CEO Prosecutions & Union Pension Bailout

Posted by LaborUnionReport (Profile)

Monday, July 4th, 2011 at 8:00PM EDT

Despite the bribery scandals, the dancers, and the jokes about the millions of their members’ dues that Teamster bosses spent in Las Vegas last week at the union’s 28th international convention, delegates did accomplish one thing of note: The delegates passed a resolution that, among other things, calls for a “financial rescue package for struggling union pensions” (also known as the $165 billion union pension bailout).

Following last year’s failure of Democrats (and a few Republicans, like new GOP-presidential hopeful Thad McCotter) to get taxpayers to shell out up to $165 billion to prop up union pension funds, unions have continued to bemoan the fact that they have been unable to dip their beaks into the public treasury as Wall St. fat cats did in 2008.

Meanwhile, as hundreds of union pension funds are listed in critical status, union bosses (including the Teamsters) continue to misleadingly blame the financial meltdown of 2008 for their ills. The fact of the matter is, many union pension funds were already underfunded before the economy tanked.

For example, the Teamsters notorious Central States Pension Fund (ironically, the same pension plan that helped build the Las Vegas strip) was estimated to be only half funded in 2007 when Teamsters president James P. Hoffa reportedly allowed UPS to withdraw from the fund in exchange for unionizing UPS Freight.

Read more at:

http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/07/04/teamsters-vegas-convention-calls-for-ceo-prosecutions-union-pension-bailout/

[Don Corleone]

Read my lips...read my tag.

DC

[R0CK3T]

Perhaps it’s time for a preemptive strike to avoid an assault on Freedom Loving Americans?

[the invisib1e hand]

don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, right Mr. President?

[Sarah Barracuda]

Civility went out a long time ago. The progressives see their agenda near death and they will do anything to save it. If that means riots and race wars they are all for it. I saw the signs saying “We need jobs” I wonder how many of those Government kiss asses actually got off their asses and actually went to look for work..they all have their hands out waiting for their Obama money

[HereInTheHeartland]

This is an incredibly good thing. Republican campaign commercials running next fall will feature this video with Obama speaking ion the back ground.

If they are smart.....

[Mr. Mojo]

There’ll be a lot of angry union thugs, Islamists, communists, feminazis, welfare parasites, and racial victicrats on Nov. 6, 2012. A helluva lot.

[Baladas]

Union Thug alert!!! Careful, Jinbo, don’t want to end up in cement like Daddy.

[NoGrayZone]

Yo Jimmy, where’s your papa?

[dforest]

I suggest someonr take the film of an event like this and a film of a Tea Party rally, put them up against each other.

Make sure the film goes viral. Ask, who seems to be the people we should worry about? Just who is inciting violence?

[Paladin2]

Should all TEA Partiers go Galt, there’d be no there there anymore.

[Las Vegas Ron]

CWII Ping!

Thanks melancholy

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[harpu]

If I remember correctly...the ‘rank and file’ of the Teamsters were pretty evenly split in their support of ‘W’. I can’t imagine that the fine job OBozo has done would cause that split to lean any more left than it already has.

[Quickgun]

Anytime one of ‘em wants to kick my a$$, I always have it with me.....

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Sound a lot like the Custer bluster, just before he got his a$$ whipped, no?

[Mygirlsmom]

Who is it that wants to push granny off a cliff?

[hiredhand]

We already have a house policy along with many others we know, and this is that IF it says "Union Made", we simply don't buy it. We've been saying for several years now that it will be a cold day in hell before we support Detroit and the unions with respect to the U.S. auto industry. Ditto for everything else with a "Union" sticker on it. From what I understand through feedback, our refusal to support them is having some degree of impact.

As for Hoffa's poorly chosen words, he's inciting violence... plain and simple. This is usually a crime, except in cases where the complicit approval of the authorities is present. If Obama had half a brain he would have refused to take the stage after Hoffa and distanced himself from the man IMMEDIATELY. But he doesn't, and he didn't.

About them wanting to fight... yeah.... we'll just see how that works out for them. :-)

[Dead Corpse]

Do unto others, before they have a chance to do unto you...

Drop him off a cliff. Do it now...

[FightThePower!]

Buy gun and ammo, lots and lots of them.