Occupy ROTH Army

[FORD]

This is silly and not the model anywhere else(apart from maybe Cuba). The point is that if you have a decent universal healthcare system most people don't pay someone else for insurance(why bother?) but if they want to you have to let them since that's their right. You may end up with 5% with private health insurance because they have plenty of cash and if they want to do that for better 'hotel services' in private hospitals there isn't a problem with that.

Sounds like you read Howard Dean's book.....

[BigBadBrian]

to red anti-union states

You mean "right-to-work" states. You know, the ones that won't require you to give money to union fat cats.

[BigBadBrian]

decent universal healthcare system

that's certainly not Britain's NHS.

Google anything along the lines of "UK NHS horror stories" or something similar.

[BigBadBrian]

Also, for those that knew, I might as well announce here.
I put off the MRI. Until a later date, I feel healthy enough. I will try to reschedule as soon as possible. My doctor's office was very understanding and supportive. A new nick name for me, lumpy. hahaha. God willing, it was only an echo.

The very best of luck to you, Blaze, I sincerely hope everything turns out extremely well. Don't wait too long for your MRI.

[fifth element]

You mean "right-to-work" states. You know, the ones that won't require you to give money to union fat cats.

for those who DON'T know, "right to work" is code for "right to fire"....as employers can get rid of you for ANY reason, real or imagined.

Don't believe it? You should, as that is exactly what my lawyer informed me after i was fired on a totally trumped up charge.
Yes, i live in a "right to work" state.

Companies in "right to work" states...(a name chosen for the sole purpose of getting the uninformed to back it because it SOUNDS good)
can fire you because they don't like the way you look....(generally citing garbage about the company image, etc, etc, etc.)

[ashstralia]

we've had a situation here recently where public servants (including emergency services) have protested the new state govt's changes to industrial relations laws...

hey fifth element... check out this from post#37; we've had governments rise and fall on this in my lifetime!

[BigBadBrian]

for those who DON'T know, "right to work" is code for "right to fire"....as employers can get rid of you for ANY reason, real or imagined.

True enough, but you also don't have to worry about a union pulling you onto a picket line if you don't agree with them. Besides, unions don't offer the employment protection they once did. If an employer doesn't like you, you're pretty much gone whether you like it or not. All they need do is document your shortcomings (real or imagined) over time and that is pretty much it. Your union has little recourse.

Hope you've found another job or will find another one soon.

[BigBadBrian]

i'd say that these guys are definitely on the pissed side, Nitro....

I'd say these are the "great unwashed masses" Katie Couric was referring to.

[BigBadBrian]

http://occupywallst.org/forum/propos...all-st-moveme/

Their website seems to be as of the time I'm typing this. Hmmm...wonder why?

[BigBadBrian]

Sounds like an extension of the founding father's vision. Sorry BBB....it is..... look up the first 3 freedoms...

How so?

[BigBadBrian]

Keith "The Marxist" Olbermann =

[BigBadBrian]

i'd say that these guys are definitely on the pissed side, Nitro....

Also, I see very few black people in these protests. These people must be racists.

[Matt White]

Typical...must be the same "shipped in Union Thugs" from Madison WI earlier this year................


same old Neo-fascist defense...............

funny how this movement is spreading...not disappearing...as Faux News & the Ailes Puppets would have had you believe...........

[jhale667]

Typical...must be the same "shipped in Union Thugs" from Madison WI earlier this year................


same old Neo-fascist defense...............

funny how this movement is spreading...not disappearing...as Faux News & the Ailes Puppets would have had you believe...........

Exactly, exactly.

Notice Brie threw out the usual lame knee-jerk "Marxist" crap about the Olbermann video...pathetic neocon troll.

[WACF]

I heard a blurb on the ABC News tonight about 20,000 or so manufacturing jobs supposedly about to return to the US. Why is this the case? Because the Chinese want higher wages. So they no longer have slave labor to offset the higher shipping costs.

That's the good news. Bad news is, these alleged jobs seem to be returning only to red anti-union states with Koch whore governors, so they STILL won't be living wage jobs.

It is a start though.

In your anti-union states...what have they done to make it hard to orginize?