Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill

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Bailout Recipients Hosted Call To Defeat Key Labor Bill

January 27, 2009 01:10 PM

Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and business officials to organize opposition to the U.S. labor community's top legislative priority.

Participants on the October 17 call -- including at least one representative from another bailout recipient, AIG -- were urged to persuade their clients to send "large contributions" to groups working against the Employee Free Trade Act (EFCA), as well as to vulnerable Senate Republicans, who could help block passage of the bill.

Bernie Marcus, the charismatic co-founder of Home Depot, led the call along with Rick Berman, an aggressive EFCA opponent and founder of the Center for Union Facts. Over the course of an hour, the two framed the legislation as an existential threat to American capitalism, or worse.

"This is the demise of a civilization," said Marcus. "This is how a civilization disappears. I am sitting here as an elder statesman and I'm watching this happen and I don't believe it."

listen to clips at link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/bank-of-america-hosted-an_n_161248.html


PREVIOUSLY HOME DEPOT FOUNDER, BERNIE MARCUS, SAID THIS:

Home Depot Founder: Retailers Who Don't Support GOP "Should Be Shot"

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/19/home-depot-founder-retail_n_144863.html?page=6

TIME TO BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT!

[ikojo]

1. Wow! When I read the headline I thought

these guys must need a wheelbarrow to carry their balls around. How big must your balls be to put a bunch of people out of work, take a taxpayer funded handout and still not want to give workers rights to a better life.

The chutzpah of the corporate elite. Unfortunately there are probably many people in my office (an insurance company) who would be against the EFCA.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. I have not been in Home Depot for years..as soon as I found what big repuke the owner was..

I stopped going there. They are in the same category as Walmart.

I patronize CostCo and Lowes.

[BOSSHOG]

3. No we don't need no stinking government intervention

lets just proceed with limbaughian economics where the working class gets crumbs while the billionaires eat cake.

[October]

4. Un-freaking-believable! They disgust me.

Home Depot moron who made his billions from consumers who tend to work in the field of labor...

I hate these guys.