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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 12:42 AM
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Dualing Rallies in Iowa: 1,000 Union members and supporters, 60 Teabaggers
http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-capitol-rallies-022211,0,5258980.story

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Ramirez said he worked for John Deere as a union member for nearly 30 years and is new to the Tea Party. He joined the party's gathering with about 60 others at the bottom of the statehouse steps. Ramirez believes his fellow union members need to realize it is time to make do with less for the good of the country. He said, "Absolutely. All of are going to have go give up."

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At their rally, the state's unions delivered a far more organized front with a sound system set up for a list of speakers before the crowd. They cheered for each other and jeered the tea partiers downstairs. One man holding a union banner screamed, "Three reasons to be a Republican: either you're real rich, you are real religious, or you are real stupid. Which are you?"

It is fear that brought Becky Douglas, of Belle Plaine, to the rally. She said her son is a corrections officer. She said, "Think something has to be done to stop what they're about to do in his country. Not good."

Douglas joined more than 1,000 union members and supporters, many of them bussed in from other parts of the state. Douglas doesn't think the government should turn against the workers who serve its people. She said, "They want to take it away from the working man. I don't think so."

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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 12:44 AM
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1. Dueling. Don't think you want to go into duality.
Not between the union people and the Kochheads.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 12:46 AM
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2. About the same range as large saturday
mehtinks the baggers will soon realize how much of a MINORITY they are.
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:04 AM
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3. this Ramirez character is dumber than a bag of hamburgers.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:27 AM
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4. These tea baggers are so stupid...it hurts!
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 01:28 AM by CoffeeCat
The article quotes tea bagger Ramirez, "Ramirez believes his fellow union members need to realize it is time to make do with less for the good of the country."

What in the hell???? While the corporations get rich beyond their wildest dreams, and the CEOs and executives walk away
with the entire store---the working class folks are the ones who have to "make do with less"????

Never in the Koch Brothers wildest dreams has there ever been a goofier bunch of brainless lemmings--than these tea baggers.

They will toe the line for the corporatists and fight AGAINST their own interests--without thinking. Ramirez is advocating
that the middle class needs to suffer and give up more--so the upper 3 percent can have more. OMG!!

The corporatists, the elitists and the cocktail-party circuit are laughing their asses off at these bozos!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:45 AM
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5. The GOPers risk a big chuck of their creds by their anti union stances
They reveal themselves as STUPID and Inept
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