Showing posts with label Unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unions. Show all posts

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Score “One” for the Constitution v. Executive Office Abusers

Some of the best news I’ve read in a long time.  There is still some sanity in our courts and an understanding that the U.S. Constitution set-up a separation of powers intentionally to protect you and I from government tyranny.

The Landmark Legal Foundation (aka Mark Levin) has done our Country a great service by forcing this issue into the courts and setting the precedent that Presidents and their Executive Branch must follow the laws of the Constitution.

Enjoy the article and don’t forget to send your thanks to the Landmark Legal Foundation for taking this issue to court.

YiT ~  Shelly


Obama recess appointments unconstitutional

  • By Stephen Dinan

    The Washington Times; Friday, January 25, 2013

    • Richard Cordray stands left as President Obama announces in the State Dining Room of the White House on Jan. 24, 2013, that he will re-nominate Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a role that he has held for the last year under a recess appointment, and nominate Mary Joe White to lead the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). (Associated Press

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    In a case freighted with major constitutional implications, a federal appeals court on Friday overturned President Obama’s controversial recess appointments from last year, ruling he abused his powers and acted when the Senate was not actually in a recess.

    The three-judge panel’s ruling is a major blow to Mr. Obama. The judges ruled that the appointments he made to the National Labor Relations Board are illegal, and hence the five-person board did not have a quorum to operate.

    But the ruling has even broader constitutional significance, with the judges arguing that the president’s recess appointment powers don’t apply to “intra-session” appointments — those made when Congress has left town for a few days or weeks. They said Mr. Obama erred when he said he could claim the power to determine when he could make appointments.

    “Allowing the president to define the scope of his own appointments power would eviscerate the Constitution’s separation of powers,” the judges said in their opinion.

    The judges said presidents’ recess powers only apply after Congress has adjourned a session permanently, which in modern times usually means only at the end of a year. If the ruling withstands Supreme Court scrutiny, it would dramatically constrain presidents in the future

    Read more:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/25/federal-court-obama-broke-law-recess-appointments/#ixzz2JEx3JfOr
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  • Of course the NLRB feels very confident that President Obama’s appointments will be upheld; so why adhere to a pesky verdict from an insignificant decision that goes against them?  They have important work to do and until someone forcibly stops them, they’re going to continue on as if nothing has changed.  Wonder if AG Holder’s office will step-in and uphold the federal courts ruling?

    YiT ~  Shelly


    Obama’s Union-Controlled NLRB Thumbs Nose At Court Ruling, Chairman Vows To March Onward

    By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 25th, 2013 at 09:15 PM  |  29

    NLRB picketing

    Following Friday morning’s appeals court ruling that Barack Obama’s “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, union attorney (and current NLRB chairman) Mark Gaston Pearce vowed to ignore the court’s ruling.

    In a statement posted on the NLRB’s website, Pearce stated:

    “The Board respectfully disagrees with today’s decision and believes that the President’s position in the matter will ultimately be upheld. It should be noted that this order applies to only one specific case, Noel Canning, and that similar questions have been raised in more than a dozen cases pending in other courts of appeals.

    Click here to read the full story.

    Monday, October 15, 2012

    Big Government + Big Promises = Big Problems

    Everyday we fail to get honest answers on how the federal, state, counties and cities are going to come up with the funds to pay out all of the unfunded, mandated promises of future pension payments.

    There is only one real solution to this problem and that is to stop making promises we cannot afford to keep!  If we the people insist that our elected public servants stop increasing the level of public spending beyond the tax payers ability to pay, remove the mandates to pay prevailing union scale wages, start privatizing as much government services as quickly as we can; maybe we can avoid the upcoming. fiscal train-wreck, headed our way.

    Enjoy the article provided below and stay tuned…this one is coming soon!

    YiT ~  Shelly


     

    Exclusive: Study shows $1.2 trillion gap for public pensions

    A pair of elderly couples view the ocean and waves along the beach in La Jolla, California March 8, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Blake

    By Hilary Russ - Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:01pm EDT

    (Reuters) - The largest 100 public pension funds have around $1.2 trillion of unfunded liabilities, about $300 billion above the nearly $900 billion they reported themselves, according to a new actuarial study to be released on Monday.

    The pension systems reported a median funding level of 75.1 percent. The study by the actuarial firm Milliman, which used different ways to value assets and measure liabilities, finds an aggregate level of funding of 67.8 percent.

    But Milliman, one of the world largest actuarial firms took a close look at U.S. public pension funding for the first time, and said the multibillion-dollar difference was good news.

    Rebecca Sielman, the report's author, said results should reassure the public that America's public pensions in general are accurately reporting their funding shortfalls.

    The difference between what public pensions across the United States have reported and what Milliman found wasn't significant, Sielman said. She noted that a relatively small change in the way the figures are calculated could lead to seemingly outsized results because the funds are so large.

    "The numbers really didn't change that much," she said. "It really didn't move the needle."

    Both the pension funds' reported results and Milliman's findings fell within the range of previous estimates from other studies of the total size of the public pension shortfall in the United States.

    With the study, Milliman, stepped into the debate about whether public pensions are underreporting the size of their liabilities.  (Click here to read the full story)

    Monday, July 30, 2012

    “DiscovertheNetworks.org”; An amazing tool to research and find how the Political Left is interconnected and funded

    Straight from David Horowitz.  For those of you who do not already know David Horowitz, he is a former activist for the left.  David was raised by communist parents, and had his own awakening when the US left the Vietnam War.  Once the US military was gone and no longer a threat, the people left behind were slaughtered by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.  The activist, leadership of the left, showed no compassion or anger at a “communist” regime’s massacre of it’s own people.  So had he been fighting for a lie?

    Yes, Mr. Horowitz, now understood the empty, inhumane and ruthless nature of the movement he had helped.  Since that time he has worked tirelessly to expose the Progressive’s and with this website, he helps you to see the connections, too.  The website is: “DiscovertheNetworks.org.” 

    Mr. Horowitz also works under the organization HorowitzFreedomCenter.org, which helps to keep us connected with others who strive to “drain the swamp,” as Nancy Pelosi so adoringly coined.

    Use it.  Enjoy it.  Share it.  We the People must expose how they’ve been working in harmony to rustle, wrangle and corral us towards the cliff.

    YiT ~  Shelly


    Monday, December 19, 2011

    Wanted: “Healthcare Organizers for the SEIU”

    Recently Washington State voters approved the initiative requiring that “home care givers” must attend a state sponsored class that requires membership with the SEIU and you will be fully comp'd the expense of this class.  If the home care person does not take this course they will be in-eligible for any compensation from the State or Medicare for their costs of keeping a loved one at home, rather than “dumping” them in to a nursing home.

    Was this initiative really about increasing the quality of home health care, or was it really about growing the SEIU through an initiative which mandates a growing private sector into being Union paying members?

    The post below is from SEIU Healthcare 775NW.  It’s a snapshot from their SEIU website.  Look over the snapshot of the job responsibilities and go to the link to read the full posting.  Afterwards, you decide whether this was about improved healthcare or growing Union membership.

    YiT,  Shelly


    SEIU - Service Employees International Union, CTW, CLC

    DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
    Management:
    • Develop and lead a highly skilled team of organizers to develop rank and file worker leaders and mobilize members for strategic field campaigns.
    • Lead and maintain systems for staff training and accountability, in coordination with the Lead Organizer for the Leaders in Action Nursing Home team and other teams.
    • Co-ordinate with other leads and team managers to effectively execute coordinated field campaigns.
    • Participate in strategic planning with the union’s leadership team.
    Leadership Development:
    • Leading members and organizers to develop curriculum and lead leadership development trainings
    • Train and lead members in non-violent civil disobedience, such as occupying state buildings and banks, and peaceful resistance.
    • Implement leadership program with the goal of engaging 10% of members in active leadership and majority participation
    Member Mobilization:
    • Execute field plans mobilizing members around political campaigns, annual Leadership Convention, lobby days, regional meetings.
    • Execute field plans for special campaigns including contract campaigns, ballot initiatives, COPE contributions, general membership growth and the broader campaign to fight for a fair economy.
    • Plan and execute strategic direct action field plans including banner drops, bank takeovers, and capitol occupations with membership, other local unions, and coalition partners
    Additional Responsibilities:
    • Assignments to electoral, legislative and growth (new organizing) campaigns as required
    • Other duties as assigned

    Click here to read the full posting on the SEIU website.

    Monday, November 7, 2011

    More Pigs at the Trough: “The Price of Free Corn”, by Steve Washam

    So tell me, are you able to understand the similarity between the story I’ve posted below and the Occupier’s around the World?

    YiT,  Shelly


    By Steve Washam, based on a telling by George Gordon

    In a realistic style, this story illustrates what the U.S. government and the UN are doing to the people of America and the  world. When thinking of Constitutional violations by our  politicians, think of this parable.

    Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few  possessions, especially his traps -- and drove south.

    Several weeks later he stopped in a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. It was a Saturday morning -- a lazy day -- when he walked into the general store. Sitting around the pot-bellied stove were seven or eight of the town's local citizens.

    The traveler spoke, "Gentlemen, could you direct me to the Okefenokee Swamp?"

    Some of the old-timers looked at him like he was crazy. "You must be a stranger in these parts," they said.

    "I am. I'm from North Dakota," said the stranger.

    "In the Okefenokee Swamp are thousands of wild hogs," one old man explained. "A man who goes into the swamp by himself asks to die!"

    He lifted up his leg. "I lost half my leg here, to the pigs of the swamp."

    Another old fellow said, "Look at the cuts on me; look at my arm bit off!"

    "Those pigs have been free since the Revolution, eating snakes and rooting out roots and fending for themselves for over a hundred years. They're wild and they're dangerous. You can't trap them. No  man dare go into the swamp by himself."

    Every man nodded his head in agreement.

    The old trapper said, "Thank you so much for the warning. Now  could you direct me to the swamp?"

    They said, "Well, yeah, it's due south -- straight down the road." But they begged the stranger not to go, because they knew he'd  meet a terrible fate.

    He said, "Sell me ten sacks of corn, and help me load them into  the wagon."

    And they did.

    Then the old trapper bid them farewell and drove on down the road. The townsfolk thought they'd never see him again. Two weeks later  the man came back. He pulled up to the general store, got down off  the wagon, walked in and bought ten more sacks of corn. After  loading it up he went back down the road toward the swamp.

    Two weeks later he returned and, again, bought ten sacks of corn. This went on for a month. And then two months, and three. Every  week or two the old trapper would come into town on a Saturday  morning, load up ten sacks of corn and drive off south into the  swamp.

    The stranger soon became a legend in the little village and the subject of much speculation. People wondered what kind of devil  had possessed this man, that he could go into the Okefenokee by  himself and not be consumed by the wild and free hogs.

    One morning the man came into town as usual. Everyone thought he wanted more corn. He got off the wagon and went into the store  where the usual group of men were gathered around the stove. He  took off his gloves.

    "Gentlemen," he said, "I need to hire about ten or fifteen wagons. I need twenty or thirty men. I have six thousand hogs out in the swamp, penned up, and they're all hungry. I've got to get them to  market right away."

    "You've WHAT in the swamp?" asked the storekeeper,  incredulously.

    "I have six thousand hogs penned up. They haven't eaten for two or three days, and they'll starve if I don't get back there to feed and take care of them."

    One of the old-timers said, "You mean you've captured the wild  hogs of the Okefenokee?"

    "That's right."

    "How did you do that? What did you do?" the men urged, breathlessly.

    One of them exclaimed, "But I lost my arm!"

    "I lost my brother!" cried another.

    "I lost my leg to those wild boars!" chimed a third.

    The trapper said, "Well, the first week I went in there they were wild all right. They hid in the undergrowth and wouldn't come out.  I dared not get off the wagon. So I spread corn along behind the  wagon. Every day I'd spread a sack of corn.

    "The old pigs would have nothing to do with it. But the younger pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn than it was to  root out roots and catch snakes. So the very young began to eat  the corn first.

    "I did this every day. Pretty soon, even the old pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn, after all, they were all free;  they were not penned up. They could run off in any direction they  wanted at any time.

    "The next thing was to get them used to eating in the same place all the time. So, I selected a clearing, and I started putting the  corn in the clearing.

    "At first they wouldn't come to the clearing. It was too far. It was too open. It was a nuisance to them.

    "But the very young decided that it was easier to take the corn in the clearing than it was to root out roots and catch their own  snakes. And not long thereafter, the older pigs also decided that  it was easier to come to the clearing every day.

    "And so the pigs learned to come to the clearing every day to get their free corn. They could still subsidize their diet with roots  and snakes and whatever else they wanted. After all, they were all  free. They could run in any direction at any time. There were no  bounds upon them.

    "The next step was to get them used to fence posts. So I put fence posts all the way around the clearing. I put them in the  underbrush so that they wouldn't get suspicious or upset, after  all, they were just sticks sticking up out of the ground, like the  trees and the brush. The corn was there every day. It was easy to  walk in between the posts, get the corn, and walk back out.

    "This went on for a week or two. Shortly they became very used to walking into the clearing, getting the free corn, and walking back out through the fence posts.

    "The next step was to put one rail down at the bottom. I also left a few openings, so that the older, fatter pigs could walk through the openings and the younger pigs could easily jump over just one  rail, after all, it was no real threat to their freedom or  independence they could always jump over the rail and flee in  any direction at any time.

    "Now I decided that I wouldn't feed them every day. I began to  feed them every other day. On the days I didn't feed them, the  pigs still gathered in the clearing. They squealed, and they  grunted, and they begged and pleaded with me to feed them -- but I  only fed them every other day. Then I put a second rail around the  posts.”

    "Now the pigs became more and more desperate for food. Because now they were no longer used to going out and digging their own roots  and finding their own food, they now needed me. They needed my  corn every other day.

    "So I trained them that I would feed them every day if they came  in through a gate and I put up a third rail around the fence. But it was still no great threat to their freedom, because there were several gates and they could run in and out at will. Finally I put up the fourth rail. Then I closed all the gates but one, and I fed them very, very well."

    "Yesterday I closed the last gate and today I need you to help me take these pigs to market."

    The price of free corn.


    The parable of the pigs has a serious moral lesson. This story is about federal money being used to bait, trap and enslave a once  free and independent people.

    Federal welfare, in its myriad forms, has reduced not only individuals to a state of dependency; state and local governments  are also on the fast track to elimination, due to their functions  being subverted by the command and control structures of federal  "revenue sharing" programs.

    Please copy this parable and send it to all of your state and  local elected leaders and other concerned citizens. Tell them" Just  say NO to federal corn."

    The bacon you save, may be your own.


    Occupy Whatcom County Council supported by Councilman Mann??? and City Council Candidate Cathy Lehman???

    As always, their words speak louder than mine.Sus Devp (small)

    YiT,  Shelly


    Occupy Whatcom County Council

    Share · Public Event

    Wednesday, November 9 · 6:30pm - 9:00pm


    Location

    Walk from Maritime to County Courthouse

    311 Grand Ave

    Bellingham, WA


    Created By

    #occupybellingham


    More Info

    We need 99 people to gather at the #OB Encampment at 6:30. There will be a brief orientation at the encampment, and then an even more brief walk from the Encampment to the Whatcom County Courthouse... where there will be warmth. Warmth and democracy.
    Each person is allowed 3 minutes to speak about any issue they feel is important.

    Wall
    • Carrie Lynn

      What will the orientation be about?

      Like · · 5 hours ago

    • Richard May

      while it may be permissable to speak on "any issue", it would be highly helpful if occupy folks would aim for a focused, constructive, specific complaint or demand, so that the general public would have a better chance to understand and learn what the fuss is about.

      Like · · 13 hours ago
    • Shane M Roth

      It is my experience that there is always at least one representative of the 1% at County Council meetings. There needs to be at least 99 representatives from the 99% to achieve equity of attendance at County Council events.

      Like · · 21 hours ago
    • Iris Maute-Gibson

      I'm unfortunately going to be out of town; stay warm and fierce!

      Like · · 23 hours ago
    • Cathy Lehman

      I'll be speaking in the public hearing (and possibly in the open session as well) on behalf of Futurewise. Sounds like we're gonna pull an all-nighter! I'm game.

      Like · · Yesterday at 9:28am
    • Ken Mann

      Technically, I'll be attending...

      Like · · Yesterday at 9:12am
      • 5 people like this.

        • Shane M Roth Ken is excused because he will be in a meeting at 6:30... nonetheless, he will be in the Encampment in spirit.

          Yesterday at 9:26am · Like


    Friday, November 4, 2011

    OWS moves into their next phase; “The Robin Hood Tax”

    The Occupiers have been organized from the get go.  They have painted a picture of themselves as a disorganized group who just happened to gather together on September 17th, (Constitution Day) to express their multifaceted, disjointed complaints.  “Not so!”, says Erik Erickson of “Red State”.  Well those of us who know that “Occupy  Wall Street” (it’s simply amazing that such a spontaneous movement has put together a print publication a high tech website and serves the Occupier’s  organic, corn fed, “filet mignon” type food???) was originally labeled “Days of Rage”, organized by the SEIU’s Steven Lerner, heartily agree with Mr. Erickson’s belief.

    Enjoy these ‘2’ articles from “Red State” and stay on top of what’s really happening, because the mainstream media is not showing you the truth of this movement.  Then ask yourself (and maybe even take the time to ask the MSM); “Why?”

    YiT,  Shelly


    Unions & #OccupyWallStreet Reveal Their Hidden Agenda: A Worldwide Financial Tax

    Posted by LaborUnionReport (Diary)

    Thursday, November 3rd at 11:00AM EDT

    If there’s one thing about the Marxists controlling today’s unions, it is that they are predictable. If you watch them long enough, the pattern is always the same: Demand the extreme with something attainable in mind as the fallback position.

    In labor relations, the making of outrageous demands is a classic negotiating tactic at the bargaining table because union negotiators know company negotiators will only agree to what they are willing to based on business economics. In politics, however, the union tactic is an absolute winner because their prey (politicians, many of whom are bought by unions anyway) always fall for it and, besides, it’s only the taxpayers who are stuck with the tab. One thing though, whether at the bargaining table or in politics, unions always reveal their hidden agenda—eventually. Click here to read the full story.


    #OccupySetup: Dems Introduce “Steal From The Rich, Give To The Poor” Tax Act

    Posted by LaborUnionReport (Diary)

    Friday, November 4th at 12:15AM EDT

    Let’s put this into some context, shall we? For nearly two months, America has watch the violence-laden, union-sponsored, carnival-like freak show of the #OccupyWallSt movement push its Neo-Communist agenda. Then, the day that union boss Richard Trumka heads over to Cannes, an #OccupyWallSt-union brigade of protesters expose the movement’s hidden agenda by announcing they will be taking their angry protests outside the Treasury Department to demand the so-called “Robin Hood Tax,” Democrats in the House and Senate introduce a bill to pass said tax:

    This week, a bill was introduced that would impose a new tax on certain trading transactions in financial markets. The tax – which is aimed at the wealthy – is already being called the “Robin Hood Tax” and is part of H.R. 3313, sponsored by Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR). Twelve co-sponsors in the House have signed onto the bill so far: Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR); Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA); Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI); Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D-MD); Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA); Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY); Rep. Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hi); Rep. Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. (D-GA); Rep. John P. Sarbanes (D-MD); Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-NY); Rep. Betty Sutton (D-OH) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT). Nope, those Ds aren’t typos. All of the sponsors of the bill are Democrats.


    And, of course, there’s this:

    This idea invoking the name of Robin has been around for awhile… October 29th is the eve of the G20 Leaders Summit in France. #Occupy originator Adbusters wants its followers to “rise up and demand that our G20 leaders immediately impose a 1 percent ROBIN HOOD tax on all financial transactions and currency trades.”

    Click here to read the full story.

    Sunday, October 30, 2011

    Philosophical take on OWS Manifesto

    This is a lengthy but worthwhile video where each segment of the Occupy Wall Street Manifesto is taken apart, word for word, to expose` the fact that OWS is focused on the wrong solution to their “collective” demands.

    YiT,  Shelly



    Wednesday, October 19, 2011

    Who’s behind the curtain of OWS? Meet Lisa Fithian!

    Everyday, if take the time to look and research, there is more evidence of the massive amount of planning that has been done to create “Occupy Wall Street” and all of the other “Occupy Protests”.  Lisa Fithian is described as a professional organizer for anti-globalist, anarchists, unions, etc.  The end game for “Sustainable Development”, the “Sustainablists”, is globalism.  Someone should ask Lisa Fithian, why she is either just another of the useful idiots to promote a global push for global-socialism, or she is lying to her supporters as is written in the Saul Alinsky modeling of “Rules for Radicals”.  We all know that there is no greed or corruption in Socialist/Communist/Marxist regimes, right?

    Outlining his strategy in organizing, Alinsky writes:

    There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default.[2]

    For Alinsky, organizing is the process of highlighting whatever he believed to be wrong and convincing people they can actually do something about it. The two are linked. If people feel they don’t have the power to change a situation, they stop thinking about it.

    According to Alinsky, the organizer — especially a paid organizer from outside — must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility. Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a situation. Alinsky would say, "The first step in community organization is community disorganization."

    History has proven that top down governments are always corrupt and hold “little” regard for human rights.  The only system that has ever come close to that is the “Capitalist” system.

    Enjoy this video and please share it with your friends, family and contact list.Sus Devp (small)

    Yit,  Shelly


    Monday, October 17, 2011

    “Tea Parties & Occupiers have common ground complaints, but opposite solutions!”

    This article takes on and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of both the Tea Parties and the Occupiers, why both groups are righteously mad at the system, but have diametrically opposite solutions to the problem.

    The premise is that the system has been rigged to insure that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.  That is not entirely true.  The rich get richer because they have money and power to effect “politicians” who are micro-managing the economy away from the free markets.  The politicians initial intent may be genuine, but as often happens, their genuine act has driven the U.S. economic model ever closer to socialism.  The wealthy have the ability to influence the government and the government has an ever increasing need for money.  So the outcome of this are these Public Private Partnerships, which sets up an Oligarchy, which leads to a “two” class system in America.  An Oligarchy cannot exist without the consent of the politicians.  The outcome of Socialism and an Oligarchy is that the middle class is being squeezed ever downward.  The solution is not to “nationalize” the economy, but to free up the economy and enable the small businesses and entrepreneur's to breakthrough the walls that this change in our political system has created.

    The protesters must be addressed to understand that all of the Marxism that was dished out in their K-12 and higher institutes of education, cannot fix what ails America.  The restoration of our Constitutional protections will require that we peel back the onion and simplify the system.  As it stands now, the system shuts down the vast majority of us who want to be self sufficient, by drowning us in red tape, regulations, permits, fees and all the money needed to grease the skids of the system.  The correction of overt government interference in the private markets,  the simplification of business regulations and taxes will vastly improve the lot of the small business, middle class and the poor.  It will enable us to independently work our way upwards economically, so we can care for ourselves and our families.Sus Devp (small)

    YiT,  Shelly


    “Finding Common Ground with the Occupiers”

    Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)

    Friday, October 14th at 1:16PM EDT

    The occupiers think the government should pick the winners and losers and the tea party thinks the free market can.

    “But wait,” they say, “the market is not free.” And they are right. But the solution should be to free up the market, not shackle it or nationalize it.

    Back in 2009, I asked when the people would revolt. The left went nuts, accusing me of fomenting the very violence they are now fomenting. But this is precisely where I saw us heading. The left has whipped people into a sentiment against Wall Street and bankers and the rich, but as I pointed out then and still maintain, it is the politicians who are to blame. People are reacting now, as I predicted they would, to the tyranny of small things.

    The bankers on Wall Street have the same number of votes the rest of us have. But it is the politicians, not the banks, who have made the playing field un-level. And the banks and their derivatives and new fees, etc. are all in response to the playing field being unleveled.

    What has happened is government has made it more and more difficult for anyone to make a profit. So the financial industry got more and more creative in trying to make a profit. The house of cards eventually came tumbling down. But it never would have happened, but for the government — from Fannie to Freddie to the Community Redevelopment Act and on and on and on.

    Only those with money could stay ahead. To be sure, some of them were crooked bastards who should go to jail along with some politicians. But not all of them or even most of them. More so, many on the left right now ignore the fact that these guys are bipartisan in their giving, if not slightly left, and the Obama Administration has done nothing about them. In fact, many of this administration’s legal reforms have actually benefited the biggest financial service firms like Goldman Sachs.

    Click here to read the full story.


    Friday, October 14, 2011

    The “Occupation” Party

    So we’ve gone from “Occupy Wall Street”, to the “Flea Party”, to “Pigs at the Trough” and now another fitting descriptive label “The Occupation Party”.  If that doesn’t speak of Marxist ideology, well you must have slept through every class during your public education.Sus Devp (small)

    YiT,  Shelly


    Shepard Fairey, L.A. Street Artist, Designs Party Invite for Occupy Wall Street

    By Simone Wilson Fri., Oct. 14 2011 at 10:45 AM Categories: Arts News, Occupy L.A.

    OWS Invite shepard fairey.jpg

    A West Coast legend does his part.

    ​Yup. This just happened. Right after receiving the victorious news from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg that Occupy Wall Street doesn't have to move out of Zuccotti Park after all, protest organizers learned they'd been blessed with a Shepard Fairey original.

    An East Coast art-blog editor who's been keeping up with the artistic aspects of OWS (and oh, there are many -- in L.A. too!) told WNYC radio of Fairey's "Occupation Party" invite: "I think it's really great that it's an upward looking positive image, as well as it tries to tie together a little bit of the radicalism of the 60's with today."

    obama_hope.jpg

    Look familiar?

    ​Indeed -- Fairey's apparently still on his strong-black-person-gazing-majestically-into-the-heavens kick. But will his (very kind) contributions to the movement revive the Obama "Hope" curse?

    Fairey's portrait of the president lured millions of huddled hipsters to the voting booths in 2008. But after many of them decided he's just as useless as the next paid-off politician -- seeing as, you know, the sky didn't rain down free pot and iPads -- the "Hope" symbol took on a new cheesy patriotism.  Click here for the full story.


    The truth is found posted within the comment section of this article:


    Rad 4 hours ago

    Looks like Angela Davis...the black radical from the 70's. This whole Occupy thing is going to blow up in the left's faces.


    freeulysses 16 minutes ago in reply to cre8more

    cre8more said "Were there "white punks"...of course. Were there college professors
    debating issues intelligently...yes. Were there blacks, latinos, and
    other people of color expressing their thoughts with conviction, passion
    and a prevailing sense of civility...ABSOLUTELY."
    And tell me, were there people calling for bringing back the guillotine? Yes. For beheading bankers? Yes. Complaining that the protest wasn't violent enough? Yes. That the entire system of capitalism be destroyed? Yes. That this country needs a real revolution? Yes. That there were representatives of the communist party? Yes. That the protest was called for by a group out of Canada that don't even live under our political system? Yes.
    If you are going to tell the truth, tell the whole truth. This has been a 3 ring circus from jump street. The problem is, it's using people's anger or envy over 100 different issues, and when the only uniting factor is anger, being fueled by global reformists that are not part of or care about the American way of life, you are creating a brew that is not good for the 99%, not good for civilization. If you get your 100 wishes, the economy will be worse, entitlements will be unsustainable, blood will run in the streets, and the system that has done more for the quality of life of millions around the globe will be weakened.


    Pigs at the Trough

    Some people have started to call “Occupy Wall Street” the “Flea Party”.  In my opinion they are the epitome of “Pigs at the Trough”!

    Please accept my apology for the offensive picture(s), but words cannot describe what these picture(s) show that our Country will look like as this behavior is encouraged through the mainstream media, by the DCCC, SEIU, AFL-CIO, SocialistWorker.org, Communist Party USA, President Barack Obama, Vice President Biden, Congresswoman Pelosi and what used to be proud and moral leaders of a proud and moral Country.Sus Devp (small)

    Yours in Truth,  Shelly


    “PIGS AT THE TROUGH”


    SCREEN SHOTS FROM THE WEBSITES OF PROGRESSIVE PROPONENTS



    Monday, October 3, 2011

    Days of Rage - grassroots or astro-turf?

    Back in February of 2011, on the Glenn Beck Show, Mr. Beck revealed a video taped session from SEIU’s former leader, Steven Lerner.  In this video Mr. Lerner speaks about the beginning of an organized event to be called the “Days of Rage”.  The event was to begin on September 17th, 2011 (Constitution Day) on the streets of Manhattan, New York, known as “Wall Street”.  This action comes directly from the manifesto; “The Coming Insurrection”.

    There has been a lot of local and national news blips with cutesy video of the protestors.  Their video pretty much focuses on the un-intelligible rants of an uninformed band of parrots.

    The video I’ve posted below shows a great difference in the level of protestors who are gathering in Washington, D.C., but they are no better informed than the protestors in New York.  The difference is that they are not showing drugged-out children, from the flower children, of the 60’s generation.  They are college educated youth, on their way to be the “leaders” of tomorrow.  The college educated class that are graduating from our schools of higher learning are prime examples of the re-wiring that has been done to our youth.  Listen to their words and realize that this is a prime example of the how our public Universities, a majority of our private Universities, our public Schools and again a majority of our private Schools have turned away from teaching the true meaning of the Founders fight for our U.S. Constitution, free markets and the rights to our private property.

    The schools are dependent on public funding from the federal and state governments.  This funding comes with many strings attached and some of those strings are tied to A21/Sustainable Development policy.  The stated goals for Sustainable Development is to change education of the youth towards a “global” understanding that the United States unjustly has accumulated too much wealth in proportion to the rest of the world.  They fail to mention that it is due to the U.S. Constitution, State Constitutions and Local Charters, that citizen’s of the United States have the rights to their property, and this is the key to our ability to create wealth.  As the government taxes and regulates these rights and protections away, our private wealth is seriously eroded, which is the major factor to our current economic malaise.Sus Devp (small)

    Yours in Truth, Shelly 


    Days of Rage in DC

    Click here to read the full story that contained this video.


    Sunday, September 25, 2011

    “Days of Rage” or Union Rage for Relevance and a call for Marxism?

    The news media has given the public dribs and drabs with regards to the “Days of Rage” protestors in New York and around the United States, who portray themselves as grassroots activists, that want to bring down “Wall Street”.  There is a teensy-weensy bit of information that the news media has intentionally (?) not included in their reporting of this story...”The Days of Rage” is an SEIU (Service Employees International Union) sponsored, contrived and implemented event.  The SEIU’s own “Stephen Lerner” is the major player who has been putting the teams together to go out and gin-up support for this event and even though Glenn Beck reported on this event about 3 months ago, the media ignored the event and still ignores the “union” connection.  Will you question why the media had chosen to give half the story and who benefits from this blatant omission of facts?

    Yours In Truth  Winking smile  Shelly


    WHO IS BEHIND THE ‘US DAY OF RAGE’ TO ‘OCCUPY’ WALL STREET THIS SEPTEMBER 17TH?

    What, exactly, is a “US Day of Rage?” Well, on September 17th we may find out for certain, but until then, The Blaze is revealing what information does exist about this very nefarious-sounding campaign.

    A US Day of Rage is the title given to a day of ostensibly “non-violent” civil disobedience orchestrated by a group of radicals — that reportedly include SEIU’s Stephen Lerner and ACORN founder Wade Rathke (who, coincidentally, formerly served as president of SEIU’s local New Orleans branch) — targeting Wall Street and U.S. capitalism. It’s worth noting that the title of the movement — if its intentions are indeed non-violent in nature — appears to contradict itself slightly.

    But what is perhaps even more interesting than its title is who is allegedly behind the movement.  Click here to read the full story.


    SEIU plans days of rage against Wall Street

    - Online By F. Vincent Vernuccio and Matthew Vadum Monday, July 18, 2011


    Conducting interviews on this topic is the author of Subversion, Inc., Matthew Vadum.

    From Capital Research Center publication Organization Trends, July 2011
    By F. Vincent Vernuccio and Matthew Vadum

    Summary: Led by the radical Service Employees International Union (SEIU), left-wing unions and activist groups have been planning to launch a national campaign of economic strong-arming and sabotage. Their plan envisions mortgage and student loan strikes and bank boycotts. Also contemplated are acts of harassment and intimidation directed against bank officials, corporate heads and public officials deemed to be enemies of the people.

    On March 25 ACORN founder Wade Rathke, a one-time president of an SEIU local in New Orleans, announced what he described as “days of rage in ten cities around JP Morgan Chase.” Rathke said the forthcoming campaign of demonstrations, strikes and disruption will mark “the beginning of the anti-banking jihad.”

    This kind of inflammatory language hasn’t been in the news since the days of Patty Hearst, the Weathermen, and the Black Panthers. But it has always characterized the rhetoric of left-wing activists. Now, as the labor movement lurches increasingly to port in frustration at the stalemated politics of Washington, D.C., you can expect to hear more fighting words from the activist Left.

    Since at least the late 1960s, the American Left has embraced what could be characterized as economic strong arming. Striking fear into the hearts of bigcorporations is a tactic that has proven to be both politically useful-and lucrative. The shakedown artists of ACORN and Jesse Jackson’s Wall Street Project can attest to that.  Click here to read the full story.

    Tuesday, September 6, 2011

    Dear Mr. Hoffa…

    One last post for tonight.  Sarah Palin has put into her own words a rebuttal to Jimmy Hoffa Jr’s attack against “We the People”.  So, Mr. Hoffa, how is it that Nafta, Gatt and the WTO were all passed under Democrat President’s?  How is it, Mr. Hoffa, that the jobs you profess to love have all been regulated out of existence for our beloved United States?  I think that you, Mr. Hoffa, are either a well paid crook or just plain stupid.

    Yours In Truth  Winking smile  Shelly


    Welcome, Union Brothers and Sisters

    by Sarah Palin on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 2:50am

    In my speech on Saturday in Iowa, I said: “Between bailouts for Wall Street cronies and stimulus projects for union bosses’ security and ‘green energy’ giveaways, [Barack Obama] took care of his friends. And now they’re on course to raise a billion dollars for his re-election bid so that they can do it all over again.” This was shamefully on display yesterday at President Obama’s taxpayer-funded campaign rally in Detroit. In introducing the President, Teamsters President James Hoffa represented precisely what I was talking about as he declared war on concerned independent Americans and on the freshman members we sent to Congress last November by saying, “Let’s take these son-of-a-bitches out!”

    What I say now, I say as a proud former union member and the wife, daughter, and sister of union members. So, as a former card-carrying IBEW sister married to a proud former Laborers, IBEW, and later USW member, please hear me out. What I have to say is for the hard working, patriotic, selfless union brothers and sisters in Michigan and throughout our country: Please don’t be taken in by union bosses’ thuggery like Jim Hoffa represented yesterday. Union bosses like this do not have your best interests at heart. What they care about is their own power and re-electing their friend Barack Obama so he will take care of them to the detriment of everyone else.

    Read Sarah’s complete notes by clicking here.

    Monday, April 18, 2011

    “Houston! We Still Have A Problem”

    The reason that states like Wisconsin have approved the removal of collective bargaining for ‘public’ employees is expressly explained by the following links.  Please take the time to go to these sites and read the full story.  My spouse has a small union pension which we started collecting on 3 years ago.  1 1/2 years ago I received a letter stating that the pension fund was at 65% funding (stage yellow).  One year later I received a letter stating that the pension fund level was still headed downwards and they had one more year to bring up the funding level or reduce all pensioner's reimbursement by 35% or greater, in order to remain compliant with the law (s).  Last week I received a letter and I am going to copy the language  from the letter “verbatim”.  Please take the time to read and absorb what this information means to “all” private citizen’s and tax payers, after which I ask you to follow this link to the labor dispute (of which there are many) happening in Orange, CT, between Teamsters Local 443 and Dichello Distributors.

    Yours In Truth  Winking smile  Shelly


    The purpose of this notice is to advise you that the Board of Trustees of the ***** **** Retirement Plan (“Plan”) elected to take advantage of certain special funding rules available under the Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 (Pension Relief Act of 2010).  These rules were put in place by the Federal government to help multiemployer pension plans respond to the historic investment losses suffered in 2008 and 2009.

    No Changes are being made to your current benefits or the rate at which you earn future benefits under the Plan.

    Explanation of special funding rules elected by the Trustees

    Each year the Plan’s actuary prepares a valuation that compares the Plan’s liabilities (essentially benefit promises to current and future retirees and beneficiaries) to the actuarial value of the Plan’s investments.  The market value of investments fluctuates from day to day.  For funding purposes, Federal pension law allows plans to use actuarial values of plan investments that are designed to smooth out those fluctuations.

    The Trustees have made elections permitted under Federal law related to the investment losses incurred during the 2008-09 year.

    Elections Made

    Extended amortization of investment losses.  Federal law generally requires that investment losses be taken into account for funding purposes over a 15-year period.  By electing to use this rule, the Plan’s net investment losses incurred in the 2009-09 plan year will be taken into account for funding purposes over a 29-year period beginning after the end of the plan year in which the loss was incurred.

    Expanded asset smoothing.  Federal law allows the Plan to “smooth” out variations in the market value of investments by spreading the difference between the expected return on Plan assets and actual return over a five-year period.  By electing to use this rule, the difference between actual investment returns and expected investment returns for the plan year ending June 30, 2009 will be spread over ten years instead of five.

    Effect of the application of the special funding rules

    In general, applying the special funding rules allows the Plan more time to recover from the investment losses in 2008-09 while maintaining the current level of benefits provided under the Plan.  The special funding rules will reduce the level of annual contributions needed to meet minimum contribution requirements under the law.  The special funding rules may also improve the Plan’s zone status in future plan years.  You will continue to receive annual funding notices that give you information about the Plan’s funding status.

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    Under the Federal law, the Plan cannot generally improve benefits while the special funding rules apply and during the two-plan year period thereafter (“Restriction Period”).  An exception is provided if the amendment is required as a condition of continued qualification under the Internal Revenue Code, or the Plan’s actuary certifies that (i) the increase is paid for by additional contributions and (ii) the benefit  (and associated contribution) increase is not reasonably expected to reduce the plan’s funded percentages and credit balances during the Restricted Period.

    As a result of the elections described above, the Trustees currently anticipate that benefit improvements will be limited until June 30, 2017.