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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-11 10:20 AM
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The GOP's take on the auto industry: Killing the auto industry kills the auto unions. AWESOME!
The lesson from the auto industry and the GOP's stance on saving or killing it is the lesson people keep forgetting. The GOP will pay any price to kill the Unions. Look at Wisconsin. Many of those legislators are bout to be out of a job but they are fine with that. They succeeded in weakening the Unions and that is a fair price.

The same thing is happening in education. Since they couldn't kill the teacher's unions they have decided to kill education. By doing so they will take down the strongest of all the unions. The teacher's unions scare them the most because most of the time the teachers win. See, when you advocate for children you usually win in the public eye. So... the teacher's unions must die.

And the auto union.

And the clothing manufacturers unions.

And the GOP doesn't care what the price is. They were willing to kill the entire auto industry to get their way.

They will stop at nothing.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-11 10:22 AM
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1. Does anyone think that the baseball steroids hearings were unrelated?
baseball and football have very strong and effective unions (see collusion in baseball and MLK day- Super Bowl).

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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-11 10:29 AM
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2. I guess saving the auto companies is a big deal.
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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-11 10:37 AM
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3. collective bargaining is a big deal.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-11 10:53 AM
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4. Reagan already did this to the steelworkers
A serious recession plus an undervalued dollar killed them.

It was a deliberate move to eliminate one of the progressive underpinnings of the Democratic Party
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Snoutport Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-05-11 05:33 PM
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5. I did not know that!
Damn, DU is like political school.
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