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Morning Briefing for November 21, 2011

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November 21, 2011

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1. #OWS Hijacked: #OccupyCongress Next Steps On Unions’ Agenda

2. Obama-NLRB Rushing to Issue Ambush Elections Rules on Nov. 30

3. Was the Tea Party Kicked Out of the Capitol By Former Bennett Staffers Mad at Mike Lee?

4. Busting The Myth of Union Job Security

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1. #OWS Hijacked: #OccupyCongress Next Steps On Unions’ Agenda

Did it really need to take two months for New York City Mayor Bloomberg to figure out that unions have hijacked the #OccupyMovement? Most sane observers knew that from the very start when when the Transport Workers Union in New York endorsed the squatters in Zuccotti Park, opening the flood gates for other unions, the Democrats, and the institutional Left to climb on board.

Since then, unions have provided paid protesters, legal representation, money, advertising, and even offered their property to the #OWS movement.

What began as a Neo-Communist movement that allegedly only had the goal of destroying capitalism has now become a full-fledged, union-financed class war with the very real goal (in coordination with Democrats in Congress) of instituting tax increases, along with the it’s-only-a-matter-of-time global system of taxation, beginning with the so-called Robin Hood Tax.

Now, so thoroughly have the unions hijacked the #OWS movement that the SEIU even stole the ‘We Are the 99%’ slogan in its endorsement of Barack Obama’s re-election. Unsurprisingly, the SEIU did so without even bothering to ask permission of the Occupy protesters. [Note the pre-printed 99% t-shirts on SEIU bosses as they were arrested on Thursday.]

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2. Obama-NLRB Rushing to Issue Ambush Elections Rules on Nov. 30

It seems that Friday afternoons are always the time to drop job-killing news on America’s job creators. In this case, the union appointees within Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board have issued a press release stating they will be issuing their final rule on ambush elections on November 30th.

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3. Was the Tea Party Kicked Out of the Capitol By Former Bennett Staffers Mad at Mike Lee?

On Thursday, the long planned Tea Party Debt Commission gathered in Washington, D.C. after months of development and procedure. Everything was set, the meeting had been approved through all of the appropriate channels, the tables had been set up, the microphones were in place.

One snag. Bad blood in D.C.

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4. Busting The Myth of Union Job Security

For years, unions have created a myth around manufacturing in the United States having been destroyed by the [ insert perjorative here ].

The fact is, manufacturing is not dead in the United States. It is a myth created to mislead the public on unions’ own destructiveness on companies and the jobs of employees. What union bosses have been screaming about is, in fact, the decline of unionized manufacturing.

While all manufacturing has decreased since America’s current economic recession began, from 1983 through 2006, union-free manufacturing had actually increased by 52,000 jobs.

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COMMENTS

  • mattwaters

    Yep, I think the Establishment is running for the hills Erick…no matter how hard you and CBS, etc., attempt to censor the guy…

    How about a story on Perry’s wacko stupid idea on the border or handing out money to illegal? Or “conservatives” trying to rehabilitate Romney (Ann Coulter), or Big-Gov Gingrich on Fannie and Freddie, creation of the EPA and Energy? Maybe “How to Score Insider Consulting Contracts in the low-six figures” by the Newter? How about a story called, Clueless Cain? THEY ARE THE JOKES, and the people who support THEM are the clueless, stupid airheads, etc. etc.,– not the Paul people.

    The real story underlying all of the missteps by the “conservative” pundits, is this story: The “conservative movement” is having a collective meltdown.

    And you think Ron Paul and his people are crazy? No, we’re consistent, just like the candidate. Perry? Cain? Romney? Gingrich? Go have your head examined.

  • paladin1

    as a movement is not exactly a commendation of your group’s consistency.

  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    Not, you know, ALL of it, but a part of Paul’s problem in gaining traction is that inner-party people tend to form unofficial cliques when they choose a Candidate. Or at least, understand that they will be categorized and associated with others who choose the same candidate.

    People who say they’re going to vote for Newt, for example, don’t mind being associated with other Newt voters. But no matter what you think of RP’s policies, and no matter how you’ll actually VOTE (Hell, if it wasn’t for foreign policy, he might even top my list), nobody who values intelligent conversation and mutual respect actually wants to be associated with OTHER RonPaul voters.

  • mattwaters

    Intelligent coversation? Paul is the only guy in the room thinking, and writing, and building. Have you read, “Hi, I’m Mitt” or “I am an Eagle Scout from TExas,” or “My life in high heels.” Take those to the spa. Try reading A foreign policy of freedom, or End the Fed, or Revolution or Liberty Defined. That’s why we’re passionate. The guy has ideas. The conservatives used too. Not anymore. We imitate Obama to our shame.

    Randy, you’ll get there on foreign policy, if you read the Constittuion. That used to be intelligent conversation too. Israel is not in the Constitution–nor in the UN, IMF, World Bank, etc. And do you support building up troops in Australia. That’s intelligent. What about building up our overseas presence in Diego Garcia or Iceland. That’s strategic.

  • mattwaters

    quick note on “pauls supporters are the problem.” that’s pretty lame and really beside the point. in fact, i don’t know of any political candidate whose win or losses has ever been chalked up to supporters, one way or the other.

    prove me wrong and give me one example of this…ever.

    i do agree that our current big government luvin’ GOP makes Pauls foreign policy and limited gov’t views look crazy, and I know they don’t win over his big government GOP’ers.

  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    The post to which I was responding? Not so much. Sadly, MOST of the RonPaul supporters with which anyone comes into contact are the former, and very few the latter. You may well be CAPABLE of articulating what you like about your guy (and enthusiasm isn’t the problem), but in the meantime, you come across like bullying, know-nothing douchebags with the constant meaningless (and all-caps) utterances.

    That said, simply saying “The Constitution” as though you assume that anyone who’s not for RonPaul hasn’t read it, is also more of the hammering douchebag, and less of the meaningful dialogue variety.

    Paulbots ARE the problem, because people decide things (everything) based not only on what the candidate has to say, but on what others have to say about him. That’s the entire basis for word-of-mouth marketing.

    In fact, the basis for MOST marketing. Commercials have limited utility. Mostly, they’re used for name recognition and top-of-mind (that is, when I need a car repair, whose name will most quickly come to mind). But a real CONVERT to a given business or candidate will base that decision on the recommendation of the people he trusts.

    This is why knowing how to market your candidate is so important. The majority of vocal pro-Paul people I run into are loudmouthed and arrogant, and it’s frankly off-putting. If I don’t like you, I’m sure as hell not going to simply accept your word about a candidate.

  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    nt

  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    Don’t want to give this response more credit than it’s due.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Some take longer than others, but all Ron Paul supporters eventually get there.

  • kinghenry

    With leftist Jon Stewart regularly shilling and promoting Ron Paul.

    This idiot is also on Fox News quite often.

    And unlike, Newt, bachmann, Cain, Romney, Perry……Ron Paul is yet to be taken seriously and with that Seriously scrutinized and looked into.

    Which is very fortunate for the Cult and Paul.