"Dockworkers Union: bigger port threat than Dubai?"

[Coexist]

How dare they.

Educate the unwashed masses and blame the Unions - this is the Bush strategy for shoving the port deal down our throats.



from http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/03/06.html#a7416
(on edit: that photo is small - the words running under that man are "Dockworkers Union: bigger port threat than Dubai?"


This thread discusses John Fund's idiocy on Lou Dobbs last night.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x590214#590343

I am really sick of labor being a scapegoat. Has anyone else heard this from other talking heads?

I am glad Dobbs shut him up. The look on his face and scorn for that theory was beautiful.

[MadMaddie]

1. They are really turning on the American people aren't they...

Unions
Gays
Minorities
Women
Elderly
Children
Terminally ill


Who have I left off of this list?

[Nikki Stone 1]

2. The Middle Class (they just don't know it yet)

:kick:

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Oh they know it

Why else do they keep giving the rich their tax cuts?

[liberal N proud]

3. Every group but the rich and aristocracy

[Coexist]

4. Victims of natural disasters.

[blm]

5. One of the most disgusting excuses the billionaire executive class makes

is that the fault is with the guys who want to be paid living wages to raise their families while they defend their own million dlollar salaries and multi-million dollar bonuses.

[katsy]

8. Well that's par for the course...

It was "a few bad apples" in the military who carried out the orders to torture civilian POWs.

Why would the ruling class indict their own?

[Democrats_win]

9. Excuse, certainly. In a way it's also an excess of the execs too.

The privileged class in this country is so conditioned to believe that not even the lives of those who work and protect this country are sacred.

Their views and the lives of the idle privileged in this country is the greatest threat America ever faced. We face a huge debt to China and our industrial capacity that would have paid it off was sold to make the rich richer and us poorer.

[madrchsod]

6. now that is funny

i guess they will have to federalize the ports and call in the army to unload the ships...

[Coexist]

7. actually - the National Guard was SUPPOSED to assist with Port Security

after 9/11. However, when they WERE called up, they were sent to Iraq

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/17/bush.powell.terro... /

<snip>
At the Pentagon, Bush and military officials discussed details for the call-up of 35,000 military reservists, which the president authorized last week.

"They will help maintain our air defense so they can stay on high alert. They will check shipping in ports."

[MadMaddie]

10. Nah....they will just let Halliburton do it....

[Coexist]

14. Rush called for this already.

Big surprise.

[nonconformist]

11. I saw the repeat of Lou Dobbs last night

I had to pick my jaw up off the floor when Fund blamed unions. Like you say, HOW DARE THEY. Lou was seriously pissed off.

[central scrutinizer]

13. Nothing new here

Inflation in oil prices: good
inflation in stock prices: good
Inflation in CEO salaries: good
Inflation in home prices: good
Inflation in Congressional salaries: good

Inflation in wages: RED ALERT - WOOP WOOP WOOP - Federal Reserve swings into action, talking heads on MSM read from their new scripts, Congress considers lowering minimum wage and instituting new Bracero programs, administration proposes increasing the number of H1B visas, WOOP WOOP

[Ksec]

15. The Wall Street Journal and its minions , like fund, hate any union.

It cuts into their profits . How dare any american want a decent wage, safe conditions, and a few benefits? Thats anti American to want such things, and deprive a few stockholders.

If the WSJ says Unions are the enemy then I must say that THEY are really the enemy of the regular American. The Capitalist cares only about the profit. They could care less about the worker or the country. Only the profit that can be made.