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Obama's Labor Day Address
No video here: just audio - like his last "Irene is a national catastrophe" videoconference from the vacation. Soundbites include the following (via Bloomberg):
- OBAMA SAYS UNIONS CRUCIAL TO AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASS
- OBAMA SAYS AMERICA NEEDS 'STRONG LABOR MOVEMENT'
- OBAMA SAYS U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY PROVED 'THE CYNICS' WRONG
- OBAMA SAYS CONGRESS NEEDS TO 'GET ON BOARD' ON ROAD REPAIR WORK
- OBAMA QUOTES 1948 TRUMAN SPEECH PRAISING UNIONS
- OBAMA SAYS HE WILL STAY FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
and the kicker:
- OBAMA SAYS ROADS AND BRIDGES NEED REBUILDING IN U.S.
Enjoy America: you are about to have many bore roads and bridges rebuilt.
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
September 02, 2011
Presidential Proclamation--Labor Day
Every day, hard-working men and women across America prove that, even in difficult times, our country is still home to the most creative, dynamic, and talented workers in the world. Generations of working people have built this country -- from our highways and skylines, to the goods and services driving us in the 21st century. On Labor Day and throughout the year, we celebrate our Nation's workers, and we commit to supporting their efforts in moving our economy forward.
The right to organize and collectively bargain is a fundamental American value. Since its beginnings in our country, organized labor has raised our living standards and built our middle class. It is the reason we have a minimum wage, weekends away from work to rest and spend time with family, and basic protections in our workplaces. Many Americans today are given opportunities because their parents and grandparents fought for these basic rights and values. The principles upheld by the honorable laborers of generations past and their unions continue to fuel the growth of our economy and a strong middle class.
This year has seen a vigorous fight to protect these rights and values, and on this Labor Day, we reaffirm that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of the American dream. From public employees -- including teachers, firefighters, police, and others who perform public services -- to workers in private industries, these men and women hold the power of our Nation in their hands.
In the last several years, we have pulled our country back from the brink, through a series of tough economic decisions. While we have come far, great challenges still face us. Many Americans are still struggling, and many are unemployed. My Administration is working tirelessly each day to promote policies that get Americans back to work. We will always strive to keep our fundamental promise that, in America, anyone who works hard and acts responsibly can provide a better future for their children. When we come together, there is no limit to what the American workforce can do.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 5, 2011, as Labor Day. I call upon all public officials and people of the United States to observe
this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that acknowledge the tremendous contributions of working Americans and their families.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.
BARACK OBAMA
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Yeah, but which way is Mecca?
this information super highway is the bomb - in a flash the educated unemployed know they'll soon be holding shovels and lollipop signs... and doing it OUTSIDE and under the sun, and... and.. AWAY from computers - this is generational change stuff Mr President - visionary
Does this include The Van Wyck expressway in Queens? I hope so. That fucker makes me sea sick.
Wow, if the Obama "Jobs Bill" is going to be something focusing exclusively on pro-union rhetoric, then stocks will surely crash.
Time to hedge everything you have.
God damned filthy heathen!
Maxine Waters was calling for a 1 trillion dollar stimulus.......LOL. I wonder how far Obama is going to go.
Want $1 trillion on infrastructure stimulus? No problem. We pay for it with $1 trillion cut from DoD and Medicaid transfer payments.
I guarantee you the moment it becomes clear they actually have to pay for the trillion via other spending cuts, they stop calling for it.
It won't be enough, it's never enough. It's failed every time it's tried. They always say it failed because they did not spend enough.
Maybe that pathetic, ignorant bitch was the trial balloon.
You misspelled baboon.
Come one come all to Zero Hedge... the place where racist biggots gather to compare notes and wallow in anaonymous rasist groupthink!
Too bad about the community (most of it)... 'cause the financial articles are some of the best in the business.
I can't get over the feeling that the racist bullroar is disinfo originating from certain government agencies.
Notice how often a serious or important thread gets derailed by some totally random racist or anti Semitic post that has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
All to prevent serious discussion, serious thought, and to discredit the site and its followers.
bingo
I'm no racist (check how I beat up on Trav7777 and BobDab, if you don't believe me), but that woman has been beaten near to death with the stupid stick.
LOL, we have our troglodytes, and you have yours.
America! What a country!
I prefer to think of it as a benchmark for the degredation of our congress with respect to average intelligence.
We'll ditch Maxine and Patty Murray, if you ditch Gohmert and Inhofe. Deal?
Methinks Maxine is late for her deep colonic...
They're still trying to get her head out of the way.
Time to invest in America.
Funny! Business is hard at divesting America and getting out while they can.
Yeah, look where they're going! China is one gigantic fucking centrally government planned economy!
Wait, how is the U.S. any less of one?
Translation: U.S. is going to need a lot more toner cartridges.
That in itself is not a problem. Finite resources are a greater problem. But if the new highways are built to facilitate speeds of up to 300 km/h in hydrogen powered super cars.. why not?
Time for America to meet European highway standards.
Time is money, higher speed = more time = more money!
Two problems with that:
1) Asphalt is made from oil
2) There is no such thing as a production model hydrogen super car, and never will be
1) Tarsands
2) It will inspire the auto industry at least to build more fuel efficient and faster cars
Point is that infrastructure investments in the US are long overdue. This country's infrastructure is shit compared to Europe. Obama should bring rail into the equation as well. You realize China has better infrastructure standards than the US in some regions?
Tarsands? Go back to school on this one: I'd thought that most were aware that this one was pretty clearly debunked.
"It will inspire the auto industry at least to build more fuel efficient and faster cars"
And sell to WHOM? What part of "declining physical resources and increasing population sizes" are you having problems with?
Oh, that's right, we'll "cash for clunkers" our way out of all of this... When will we see "cash for clunker earth?"
all well & good, but....didn't we have this debate already 2 years & $800B ago?
More money mean more power...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Moh7DXMk8g
Does the POTUS have to personally declare every holiday for it to be legal?
Thanks for pointing that out, I had to scroll back up and there it is Presidential Proclomation-Labour Day. Pythonesque.
no, he's just reminding everyone (and himself) that he's president.
Building roads - talk about being on the cutting edge of technology, hell i bet we could even export roads - we'll all be rich!
more bridge and tunnel people - maybe that is his way of annoying wall street, they just hate when the bridge and tunnel crowd is out in manhattan
I stopped reading after "Obama Says"
nothing about the whacked out trade policy. What a loser
Obama siding with the unions is politically a great move. We may not agree with the policies but he's going back to his "hood" for support and the trade policy imbalance will be addressed via his union friends. Pretty good move on his part.
lol...yeahright. He already is at 100% black approval effectively. Functionally every black that votes is gonna vote for him.
Reaching out to the spook vote isn't gonna get him anywhere he ain't already. Ditto with the unions and all the other libtarded groups that banded together with unprecedented turnout to get his sorry ass elected.
I think they stay home next time unless the GOP puts Paylin up there or someone who galvanizes opposition. If it's a milquetoast GOPer, fuckit, stay home. History was already made.
Blacks only comprise 12% of the population, so for him to secure 12% of the vote (providing EVERY black adult and child in America votes) really doesn't amount to much beyond the redneck racist pigs who try to make it into something.
I can guarantee you that far more than 12% of Americans are racist pigs and won't vote for him because of his color... like you. It far outweighs that small minority that you speak of.
By the way, I like how you "redneck up" your rhetoric when you get all racist, and shit. You ain't gonna trick me, you confederate goon. I'm fixin' to tell the truth!
Come on man we expect our trolls around here to be more entertaining you boring ass one-trick pony.
Kill Whitey!
Is it just me, or does anyone else see a fundimental stupidity in a guy whose avitar is a similey face with a Hitler 'stache running around accusing people of racism?
This is bribe money for those who are parasites and vote for pols who give money for votes. Nothing more than another attempt by the worst person to ever reside in the WH to get votes. He has no ideas. Having been raised the "Chicago Way" everything is about getting and paying bribes. What I have not figured out yet, other than Soros and Unions, who is getting rich with this empty suit in office? The squid gets paid no matter who is POTUS so they do not count.
Corruption likes to stay hidden. It works best when there is no light shone upon it.
Doubt it; do you have any idea how hard it was to convince white guys from western Pennsylvania to pull the lever for him? What kind of machine on the ground that required?
And then he fucked them with no kisses when it came to EFCA and card check. The rank and file will want zero to do with him after that maneuver.
He may have Detroit and Trumka kissing his ass come 2012, but the guys in the shop who actually work for a living will not fall in line again.
'our country is still home to the most creative, dynamic, and talented workers in the world'
So let's get them building roads, can't think of a better use of creative talents.
This is painful.
Near my house the American Reinvestment Act tore down a highway divider and then, I swear to god, REBUILT it, this time they colored the concrete red - we are so FK'd....
When you let the federal government "educate" your children they cannot recognize a century old failed political dogma to march to with the expansion of union help, commrade. Ahhh, where can I sign up to be a worker/citizen/soldier for my federal family?
Only the illiterate would think Obama's job plans are new, fresh and full of promise.
Put Obama in Ye Olde Time Machine and send him back to the political movement failures of the last century. Guess he missed those classes at Harvard.
Errrr, Great Leader, could we build businesses and factories along the sides of those old roads?
Only the illiterate would think Obama's job plans are new, fresh and full of promise.
Yeah, well, the illiterate and the non-literate. That's a large enough percentage to get him re-elected.
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."
Mark Twain
Twain's my guy. Tops. Cynical bastard, but his insights into human nature are timeless.
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Well, if the SHOVEL READY FUNDS had been used for this 2yrs ago, a lot of folks would have been put to work.
The rebuilds and repairs are sorely needed........as they are FALLLING apart, and are hazardous, and most have been for some time.
At least he is finally onto a POSITIVE.
But the UNION "PROGRESSIVE CRAP" must go.
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It's Labor Day...what the fuck did you expect?
As a Californian I can't get behind the pro-Union rhetoric; public sector Unions have made necessary reforms very difficult here.
It's also hard to get behind calls for grand infrastructure improvements: California's high-speed rail project has so far been a disaster.
imagine Apollo with diversity...or the Manhattan project
That's one small step for y'all motherfuckers, and one big-ass step fuh me, bitch!
Hey, why's Collins firing the thrusters? Was it because I played Last Poets for 235,000 miles?
Gee, it would be nice to focus on alternative energy, but I guess he totally fucked us there with solyndra. What a moron!
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Headlines LATimes..LOL
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It certainly was an latimes link. apology accepted.
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and there it is, Washington, upon realizing that the ponzi is in danger of being blown up is reaching for the big, fat red panic button labeled "shovel ready jobs"...
Pledge of Resistance
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names
Not in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions
of blood for oil
Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless
Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight for
Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil
Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us
Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evil
Not by our will
and Not in our name
We pledge resistance
We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity
We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice,
freedom and peace
Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.
By Saul Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ_o660d0oc
Sorry guys but Obummer ain't gonna do jack shit for the Unions or rebuild any bridges - it's just another damn speech - But the fact is a Developed Country has up to date Bridges.
The private sector can't and won't do everything.
Bitch about unions but not a word on hedge fund managers walking away with billion plus salaries taxed as a LTCG?
I suppose some won't be happy til our min wage and infrastructure matches Mexico and Honduras.
Which it probably will shortly if some of you here get your wish. The fact that you call obummer a socialist when he's obviously a bankster multi-national corporation loving fascist whore points out the fact you all took too many business classes and not enough Civics or Ethics courses.
Obummer is the perfect republican which you'd recognize if it wasn't for the racism clouding your eyes.
Bitchez!
yes...diversity and equality means that everything that exceeds the failed brown races' achievements must be destroyed and everyone should live like they do
Where have you been?
Everyone gets their turn in the barrel around here.
Can you tell me how higher union labor costs helps build infrastucture?
Can you tell me how paying the vast majority of people shit wages where they can't afford to give their children a good education, can't afford health insurance and live on the edge of bankruptcy and homelessness is a good thing for this country?
I'd argue it's not Keynesian for the gov to spend Trillions like it has in the last few years but give it all to the filthy rich kleptocrats?
I suppose it's the poor peoples fault for the Housing disaster and the 10's of trillions in bailouts given to the banksters when the TOTAL residential mortgage market is around 12 trillion -
Or how rebuilding funds used after Katrina were handed out to firms who subbed out the work over and over until the 180.00 an hour price to the gov paid the actual schmuck who did the job $8.50 a hour.
That's not Keynesian - thats legalized Fraud and Theft.
Harry Hopkins ran the FDR work programs where 97% of the monies spent were paid to previously broke and unemployed workers who sent it home to Families.
Harry Hopkins was the greatest American you've never heard of.
Flame away tough guys -
I think you present a false choice on the "majority" being paid poor wages.
Unskilled labor will always make poor wages, especially since we have a never ending inflow of it over our southern borders.
I don't get your other point. Even if I grant your apparent point that government was less corrupt in FDR's time, how would that be relevant to today's monstrosity?
Ain't it weird that the bigger government got, the more power it attained, the more corrupt it grows. Be sure and put you hopes on what you already know is a faithless whore.
PS. Under the bailout agreement, the UAW agreed to give up its right to strike against GM and Chrysler.
Keep that hopium alive.
Don't smear me as an obama supporter -that guy's as big of a crook as bush was - i don't vote for either political party as a rule-
The so called "ROAD" to recovery. Here Mr. President let me help you out seeing how Summers, Romer, Orzag, Goolsby and the rest of your economic team has not only" ditched" you but has left you on the "road" to nowhere. Here Mr. President, please take notes... Small business has produced over 65% of all new jobs over the last 15 years in this country...Not paving jobs, road work maintenance, census positions or weather stripping engineers. It is small business that carrys the weight in this country and you have done everything you can to ignore them and shut them down. If there is any hope for the future in this country, Small business needs a chance to take back Main St. from the Fascist whores on Wall St. and start rebuilding this country again. The new mindset on this Labor Day should be" too small to fail" and with this attitude and your support everything else will just happen. If you want to build bridges I suggest you start by rebuilding the bridges you burned with the small business owners in this country and tearing down the temporary suspension bridges you have built between the White House and Wall ST.
I feel let down...
roads 'n' bridges? WTF?
Where's dem green jobs?
Fans on every roof?
Solar powered cars?
Fan powered cars?
dem green jobs?
P.S. Set your political affiliation aside, Barama must go!
"set your political affiliation aside"
switching one teleprompter for another will change nothing, if Obama stays or goes, if it's Perry or Romney who takes his place makes no difference, nothing will change. It's not just Obama that has to go, it's the entire DC culture that is corrupted, bought and paid for to it's very core and it can not be salvaged in it's current incarnation. Simply tossing Obama is the illusion of choice and achieves nothing.
Anyone who votes for either of the 2 main political parties is a large part of the problem. And sorry but Ron Paul doesn't cut it. - although i 100% agree on his end the wars and the Fed Reserve - his other policies are simply another set of Empower the Oligarch's ideals - along with killing off granny if she's unlucky enough to not be in the top 2%.
Ron paul, in your opinion, is'nt the total answer.
Okay.
Bur Dr. paul has been espousing exactly what more and more people want to hear for 30 yrs.
If he ends up being the same as the rest the system has lost an important part of the perpetual fraud.
There would be no one for the malcontents,patriots,, rabble rousers, constitutionists.sound money,people to go to with hope of a positive change.
And then another layer of that stinkin' onion is peeled off.
No matter what he does, good or bad, could be the catylist for real change.
To suggest staying in the 2 party paridigm changes anything is ,well, naive at best.
yeah lol...roads and bridges.
we're consuming 10% less oil than at peak, have gone back to where we were 14 years ago. And.we're.going.lower.
So wtf do we need more roads and fuckin bridges for? They're reconstructing the entire fuckin Capital Beltway...for what? There WON'T be more traffic!
Freakin idiots, all of them. But try going into a meeting and stating the truth.
Glimpse of future here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-04/workers-play-cards-at-idle-indian-factories.html
I'd rather pay some poor schmuck receiving poverty wages for doing nothing than a Xe or USA soldier to handcuff a 5 month old baby and then shoot it in the back of the head or pay the head of GE or Goldman 10's of millions a year to outsource America's future for another buck for the oligarch's who have Captured the goverment.
So those are our only choices? Give me a minute I'm thinking it over...will the baby die or just be hopelessly injured in the shootings? Nope, I think I've got it let's do none of the above. Wow that wasn't so hard afterall.
when did they start making baby handcuffs?
Overall this is what should be roughly expected at his 'jobs' initiative coming up.
More payroll tax holiday (doesn't do squat for jobs)
A nationwide slave labor program modeled after the fascist Georgia Works (for free) program. The one where you're given a 100 dollar a week stipend by the gov't and work for free. About 12 weeks later give or take 4, the company either decides to hire you or doesn't. (here's a hint, 19 percent are hired....if nationwide I expect that to drop in half). So basically companies get free labor 'to help the bottom line' (because somehow that helps create jobs), the people that are already employed lose hours and money, people work for free, and are recycled through so they can continually get free labor. Fascist, unamerican pro-corporate whore policy.
Claim that free trade packages with Colombia, South Korea, and another central American country will create jobs here, instead of suck more out of the country. (for more bankster tax havens and screwing of china, and more manufacturing jobs lost to South Korea)
The 'best' part of his 'plan' is to rebuild roads and a few bridges that obviously need to be done, but because they have to be done, not because 'they create jobs'. It's also not like these jobs weren't already going to be in the pike but funding issues were delaying them. So it's really not an expansion, but pulling from the list of things that had been delayed...and that's job creation? Especially since it's not part of a bigger strategy like a mag lev or nawapa program, but just fixing what we already had. Repairing roads is about the lowest rung type of 'infrastructure' jobs. How about stuff that will actually matter and produce cost savings, or an ability for other businesses to latch onto? Nope none of those ideas are in his plans. Just rudimentary shit.
...oh and the kicker? Isn't he giving his speech in Detroit?
(is his teleprompter guy gone before or after..ha ha..might be a rough place to test out a new teleprompter speech writer)
This would be the time for Detroit's people to lambaste fascist NerObama.
While of course not certain, I'd say this would be a prime opportunity for 'Nero' to crack and present himself to the people that should rightfully heckle him. (but then again who knows how much the crowd will be pre-screened)
So again....
He's about to announce slave labor, job killing free trade, already in the pipe maintenance projects on mostly low cost roads, and more social security insolvency as a 'jobs' program....In Detroit! What a fool. Heckle the shit out of them Detroit. (but I won't hold my breath)
Of course none of this will save our fucktard economic system based on monetarism.
Glass-Steagall
lock limit down
bytches
happy labor day....
We could truck radioactive waste all over the place, mess with it and truck it back to be stored under waterproof sheets 60 feet from your house...since Japan is our new economic role model:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/05_20.html
Tochigi moving radioactive ash to 6 sewage plants
Tochigi Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, has begun moving radioactive sludge from a temporary storage site to several sewage plants, where it can only be kept for the time being.
Following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, high levels of radioactive material were detected in sludge at waste water plants across eastern Japan.
Tochigi Prefecture had incinerated the sludge from its sewage plants at its waste water recycling plant, and melted the ash to reduce its volume. But the amount of ash has reached 1,000 tons, close to the storage capacity.
To deal with the problem, the prefecture decided last month to keep the radioactive waste at 6 of its waste water treatment plants.
On Monday, 50 tons of contaminated ash was being delivered by truck to a sewage plant in Kaminokawa Town. The ash contains around 30,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram.
Tochigi Prefecture says the ash will pose no health hazards to residents or the environment, because it will be covered with water-proof sheets and stored at sites more than 20 meters from the nearest houses.
But the head of a local residents' group says that although they have agreed to the storage, they still have doubts about safety. He said he wants the authorities to be clear about how long they intend to keep the waste at the sewage plants.
Monday, September 05, 2011 14:56 +0900 (JST)
50 tons more than 20 meters away, eh? boy, that would make me sleep safe at night.
By the way, attacking unions in today's corrupt systemic collapse is especially stupid, counterproductive and vindictive. Once we get through a few years with a fully reformed financial system and no bailouts/excessive compensation and normal tax rates for the wealthy...how about we talk about unions THEN...?
<general applause, shouts of 'Huzzah! etc.>
All right, I knew everyone would agree. What a relief!
Union Lackey!
Yes let's immediately stop prosecuting all burglars until we have first caught all the murderers.
There are 50 states. During his election campaign Obama spoke of visiting all 57 states which proves he does not know how many states there are.
This is an astonishing error for a presidential candidate.
Ever since, this has been a standing joke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrsBKGpwi58
One particular rumor I had heard is that the "57 states" mentioned was a Fruedian slip of sorts. The "57 states" actually refer to the 57 various muslim nations and regions around the world...
I think he'd just ODed on Heinz 57 Sauce . . .
OBAMA SAYS ROADS AND BRIDGES NEED REBUILDING IN U.S.
the Japan way:building bridges to nowhere for nowhere for decades, hoping it will suddenly lift the economy.
Just to be historically accurate that Bridge to Nowhere was from a Republican Senator and a Republican Governor blowing each other and their corporate buddies. Now obummer is simply following the crony capitalist republican model.
From the land of I-Can-See-Russia Palin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
Fucking party pussies that think this is somehow only one political party that engages in shit...
And as far as those whining about Obama? Please continue, as it allows me to DO with less competition. I mean, really, how the fuck can ANY of this be a surprise? Either people are (still) fucking stupid, asking for something that can NEVER happen (TPTB concede?), or they're part of the party game (trying to get Their party in power).
People, those who want everything for nothing, as well as the corporate carpet baggers, beg for this shit. No one wants to come clean, take note of the elephant in the room, this "unsustainable" paradigm.
Why do we need to rebuild roads and bridges? Didn't we just have a trillion $ "stimulus" for that? Oh, silly me: http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2011/08/youve-blown-your-trust.htm...
more shovel ready bs from the teleprompter
to quote Taggert @ Blazing Saddles.... "Ah am depressed."
Obama pretending to champion unions or labor is like hearing Bush Jr saying " 'merca is diccted to oil" (all stop)... or Bush Jr championing saw grass.
He's such a liar. Just cause he is saying this definitely does not mean it will be so.
Obummer is a bore . . .
Union labor makes up less than 7% of the work force, maybe Obama ought to rethink his re-election strategery. War against small business to continue. Very Quixiote-like.
Thought for the day???
Is this going to be the catalyst for the violence to start?.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/05/jimmy_hoffa_at_obama_event_on_gop_lets_take_these_son_of_bitches_out.html
He might want to rethink that....
Go ahead, make my day.
"Let's take these son of bitches out"
wonder if that's what they (whoever they are) said before they took out Jimmy's Pappy.
We need step up the Keynesian building projects to something that will really create full employment. How about building pyramids on the moon?
We don't need roads and bridges.
We need flying cars.
Get on that, Barry.
Flying cars, LOL!
Operating in two dimensions out there is scary as hell, imagine having to do so in three? For now my house is fairly safe from transportation snafus, but with flying cars all bets would be off. Think of Mr. Magoo happening all around you! Insurance rates would be astronomical! (self-limiting I'd figure)
We've actually got TOO much transportation: anyone not believing so needs to take a closer look out on the roadways; BTW - why is there so much traffic when everyone's unemployed, wtf?
My father used to always say: "Go pound tar." Screw gold, I want to be a blacktop baron.
How did Labor Day as a holiday come about? Because of unions.
It was the fascist state throwing a bone to its slaves...
Origins came from The Haymarket affair/incident: which turned into May Day, mostly recognized by most of the rest of the world. The fascists/oligarchs, as is always the case, remade/rebranded things, turning what was originally a slaughter of workers into one in which workers are encouraged to go spend money on crap in order to keep their slave masters in control.
Maybe they can make the two lane road they made into a four lane road into a six lane highway with this deficit increase plan. I mean the two amusement parks both closed over five years ago so the need for the shovel ready plan in place since 1982 wasn't really there but it put some low bid union guys to work for over a year when the job should have taken a month.
For some reason it has taken six months to dig a ditch for a new sewer right down the street. Ahh The American Laziness and Crap Job Act. If we built things right in the first place they wouldn't need fixed again as soon as the job is over. hey just finished a section of highway last year and they are already ripping it up again because they screwed up the foundation.
This guy is such a Dork - you need vast amounts of Gasoline to drive on roads - its that road friction thingy - America is fucked.
Road repair job is highly paid and stable. Does it need any degree?
If only the Dem party would make up same percentage as union membership we would be better off. With the mask off we are a little closer if the brain dead would get a clue.
Oh fuck maybe they'll fix the Tappan Zee before it kills 500 people.
Do you need any roads and bridges in the new green economy?
This is directed at you, puppetmaster for Obama:
You are a nitwit.
Excuse me
Oh will you excuse me
I'm just trying to find the bridge... Has anybody seen the bridge?
(Have you seen the bridge?)
I ain't seen the bridge!
(Where's that confounded bridge?) (spoken by Robert Plant)
The unions are responsible for the destruction of the American Auto industry. Go back to Econ class Obummer - try to stay awake this time.
The guy's a dumbshit. They did a bunch of shovel ready road improvements back in 2009 with a lot of debt and it made effectively no difference except to a few contractors in that year. Roads are a waste of debt money.
I'm the corporate controller of aggregate mines and ready mix companies.
What we will see is work directed to established union companies with an established union work force to rebuild roads and bridges. These companies will use the same employees that they already have, but will hire a series of temporary workers for short duration jobs that will be required to pay union dues for the work.
They will have no say in the union dues use, nor will there be any sort of refund after they are laid off within three or four months. Those dues will help swell the union campaign chests without offsets for health and pension plans.
The AFL/CIO has called for war with republicans. In effect they have also called for war against non-union workers.
If you're non-union, it's seriously time to lock and load. The intimidation tactics are going to become life-threatening and there will soon be little alternative for self defense, or retribution.
This may be the date that the second civil war will begin according to history.