Unions have become a farce and are all about the power of the union leaders, not the workers. Ask anyone who has been screwed by their union and has had to sue them for disability benefits etc.

What gives the union the right to endorse a candidate on behalf of it's members? They endorse and feel THEY have the right to represent them in non union matters... what gives them the right to say someone else can't declare they are a union member as a way of showing they understand workers issues.

They have outlived their usefulness and overstep their boundaries.

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What the hell is viagra ads doing here?

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Some - not all - unions, have been guilty of terrible crimes and abuses of power.
Does that mean that we should go back to the conditions suffered by workers in this country, before there were unions?

Early union leaders literally died for the right of American workers to organize, so that they might have a voice to raise against the barbaric worker abuses of the Robber Barons, the fore-bearers of today's mega-corporations.

Many unions need to do a whole lot of internal house cleaning. In the meantime, concentrate on the crucial election at hand and help spread the word that a union card doesn't make Palin's husband any less a Republican. Or make her less of a hypocrite, for running ad's about him being a "fisherman", while hiding his long involvement with British Petroleum.

Stay mentally on topic people, they're trying to scatter and divert our attention.
And remember that she, not he, is running for office. And that she is a card carrying religious-right wing-nut, Cheney style Fascist.

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It's outrageous that the disparity between the working class and the wealthy is presently more than it was 40 years ago, that a CEO will make more in 10 minutes than one of his working employees makes in a full year. Much of this comes in the form of a bonus for his company having done so well under his leadership. Well, if the company has done so well, why not spread the wealth amongst everyone who works for the company, who helped get it to where it is? Often bonus agreements with CEOs have nothing to do with increased production or profit. They are just simply written into the CEO's contract, regardless of performance, up and even down, based purely on reputation and relationships and who you know. This is particularly egregious and insulting. The American way? Sadly it has become that. Give the hardworking, dedicated employees all the credit but the inside boys take all the money and benefits, assurances and support. Screw that. I say tax the living shit out of these super wealthy republicans and democrats, we gotta get the money to support their wars from somewhere, not just pass it down to the children of the working poor and the vulnerable. Close all loopholes. No more offshore ownership if you want to live and work in this country. Hopefully unions will come back with a vengeance. They should. And less and less money will go to military industrial lobbyists and war profiteering. It should begin with free education so people learn the wrongness of war, why wars are always fought with "other people's children", not the politician's children or those of the lobbyists who control them. We must learn the down side of "my country right or wrong". Who the hell wants to live in a country that's "wrong"? We were wrong in Vietnam. We were wrong in Iraq, to invade to control it's oil. We need to start pushing for peace. We need a Department of Peace to shut down our war hungry, aggressive, imperialistic government which is trying to spread itself all over the world without being wanted or invited. We've got enough nuclear bombs to annihilate everyone, all of civilization, so no nation in its right mind would attack us. But still it's not enough for our self-perpetuating military which wants and needs more. More capital, more missiles, more and smaller nuclear weapons, more aircraft carriers and nuclear subs (even though they just stood by and watched the trade towers fall), more soldiers, poor and uneducated, so they will not ask why should I kill this other person in his own land? Because they hate you, stupid. Don't ask. Just shoot to kill. Instead of my country right or wrong, union membership must reflect a new, more sensitive awareness, a little less brawn and a lot more intelligence. Where is the money coming from and where does it go? Is it helping to make this world a better place for my children and theirs to come? If owners and corporations are unwilling to open their books and share their knowledge, be transparent as we expect of our government, then I say the hell with them. Go find another job or borrow some money from the government and go start one yourself for others.

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one of the first community organizing efforts by Obama was to help steelworkers in South Chicago where the plant had closed. Sarah Palin just put down someone who helped her husband's fellow union workers when they were jobless to survive! No wonder the President of the United Steelworkers is so mad! I would be too, and I would be seriously asking this man to shut up his hypocritical wife or get out of the union, forget using him as a prop for her campaign. She has shown she is ungrateful at best, cold and heartless at worst, where her husband's union members are concerned. Hope the union comes out and endorses Obama - that should really help the Republican ticket! NOT!

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The band 'Heart', writers of the song Baracuda used at the convention and rallies since, told them to stop using their song. Shameless in any way, lacking any honor whatsoever, they continue to do as they please. But I do think the media and the real world are catching up.

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