Actually the Occupy movement goes beyond the union issue. Since attacks on unions are defacto attacks on the middle and working class. It is not the “unions” that Walker and Kasich are attacking they are attacking the working or middle class. The demise of the union movement has led to the upward transfer of wealth. The strengthening of the labor movement represents a threat to upper 1%.
The Occupy movement brings attention to the unequal distribution of wealth. Thus the union movement and the occupy movement are united by a common enemy. Since both provide a political voice to working people they may share some common objectives but they are separate movement.

Most of the “occupiers” occupy their parents’ basement at night, it appears — and are being helped by the unions during the day.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

Yes, job creation, like the first $800 million, worked just peachy didn’t it? So support another $500 + million, you might say throwing worse money after bad. And has been said by Harry Reid and repeatedly by The O,[or his puppeters] it will be going to the so called civil servants, our new elite. Of course we will also need money for our run down infrastructure,{ read,unions]. The infrastructure we spend hundreds of millions on every year for upkeep.
PT Barnum should be alive at this hour, all he pushed was dwarfs and freaks. Now they’re running the unions and the worst are in the WH.

According to reports, the OWS protesters overwhelmingly back Obama’s decision to effectively cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. OWS is into all the cliche “save the planet” claptrap.

But that pipeline would have provided thousands of *union* jobs to private-sector oil workers and construction workers. That’s why the relevant unions were backing it.

The interests of OWS and private-sector unions do not coincide. Private-sector union members know that without an expanding economy, they won’t have jobs at all. OWS either doesn’t care (as long as we stop global warming or something), or they don’t realize that Obama’s talk of “millions of green jobs” is a cynical lie.

Recent articles have had the headline “Strike anywhere in the world within one hour!”
Imagine my surprise when the stories were about a new missile.

I think wow it’s pretty risky for Congress people (OccupyCongress bit) to try to borrow anything from OWS when you have all these images and video out there of police clashes. But these are the ppl they created by promising Americans more free lunches. I really wonder what Joe Q public thinks of this. We all know where ideologues fall but where does the generic independent fall? I would think they would be semi-sympathetic just bc they would probably judge that these people are out of work and protesting unfairness on wall street, etc. – I know that OWS polls as good or better than the Tea Party I just don’t know what to think of those polls. I can’t imagine OWS is going to be something that gets more popular as time goes on.

This is very interesting bc you would expect OWS would have emerged during the Bush administration and so they would argue you need to put a democrat in office to fix all this wall street unfairness. But these are largely Obama supporters protesting during his administration. But if Obama can’t fix these sort of ‘societal’ ills and unfairness who is?

The only conclusion I can come to is that things are going to become so more polarized that truly nothing constructive is going to be able to get done that isn’t deemed an ‘emergency’. The ideologues drive both parties for better or for worse so I don’t see how we can conclude anything except that there will be gridlock unless one side tips the scale. So I think if you get a super majority or something close you can get some stuff done but even then the opposition party has some ability to cause trouble.

So these might be the ‘good years’ we’re in right now. I think this is only going to get worse before it gets better.

Our financial sector is based on socializing risk and privatize profits.

Our government takes our taxpayer money and bails out bankers who make mistakes. They then pay themselves with that windfall. How is that capitalism Labor Union Report. We then borrow from the ChiComs to make up the rest of the difference.

Socialist tendencies of unions pale in comparison than the redistribution of wealth to Wall Street bankers.

To say the OWS is a sham would be an understatement. If a movement claims to be leaderless then they are sheep waiting to be shorn or they are lying. If they had a goal as they claimed they would have a plan. They do not, unless you accept taking other peoples property as your own. That is called theft. To tear down a system and have nothing to replace it with is anarchy. To claim that OWS is aplolitcal and speaks for the 99% yet allows unions and political entities to usurp and co-opt the name itself is corrupt and a lie. To claim a filial relationship with the Tea Party is dishonest at best deceitful to be sure.
No, they do not represent me nor 99% of America. Like other politicians they lie.

nt

Although the Conservative Party congratulated the GOP and the Tea Party for giving Obama and the Democrats a shellacking last November, we’re finding little to cheer about this November. The Debt Ceiling fiasco was..well..a fiasco.

The formation of the Super Committee proves only one thing: The Republi-Dem Congress and the Administration have failed to govern – again. They shifted the burden and responsibility of making the needed tough fiscal decisions to this Committee. The President has failed to lead and the Republi-Dem congress is as inept, hamstrung and wracked with fear as ever.
CP-USA offers a Cost-Cutting Road Map. While adopting these solutions will not cure all our fiscal problems immediately, they will staunch the bleeding, slow the mounting debt The GOP has no choice but to finally do wha.t it has promised Americans for the past 25 years. If they fail – again – the GOP will confirm that it’s finished as a viable party.

STOP BASE LINE BUDGETING: This accounting gimmick requires budgets to automatically increase by 10% every year. That means even if Congress “cuts” a program by 4%, for example, actual spending still increases by 6%. The “cut” is an illusion but the increase is real. It will be impossible to make meaningful budget reforms until this deception is expunged.

STOP EARMARKING: Stop Congressional Earmarks immediately. This “legal” form of corruption is symptomatic of the culture of entitlement at the heart our fiscal problems. Congress should not bribe their constituents with tax payer money to get re-elected.

CUT CONRESSIONAL PAY: Reduce congressional salaries, expense accounts and operating budgets by 10%. Freeze salaries and operations budgets at that reduced level for five years. Americans have endured hardships due to Congressional incompetence and now it’s time for Congress to tighten its belt.

CUT FEDERAL EMPLOYEE PAY: Except for uniformed armed forces personnel, reduce salaries for ALL federal employees and contractors by 5% in 2012 and cut them an additional 5% in 2013. Freeze all salaries at 2013 levels until 2016.

FREEZE FEDERAL HIRING: Freeze civilian staffing levels for all federal agencies. Reduce staffing (including contractors) for all departments & agencies to December 2009 levels; retain those cuts for five years.

CUT OPERATING BUDGETS: Except for DOD, CIA and DHLS, reduce the
operating budget for all federal departments & agencies by 10%; retain that cut for five years. Freeze DOD, CIA and DHLS budgets at 2010 levels for the next five years.

CUT DEPT OF EDUCATION: Reduce DOE’s budget and staff by 15% every year for the next five years. This highly inefficient and bloated bureaucracy has a staff exceeding 4,200 and a $137B annual budget. Let the states manage education.

CUT FOREIGN AID – NOW: Reduce Foreign Aid by 20% in 2012 and by 10% in each of the next four years. Cut our U.N. annual contributions by 20%. America can’t afford to support all these third-world countries, many of whom actually hate us.

DEFUND AND REPEAL OBAMACARE: Defund key enforcement provisions of “ObamaCare”. This includes withholding funds for the 120 new Departments required by this Bill and the hiring of thousands of IRS agents needed to enforce its Mandate.

MODIFY SOCIAL SECURITY: Impose means testing for people with net worth exceeding $5M or annual disposable income of $500K; increase the eligibility age from 65 to 67.

FIX MEDICARE AND MEDICADE: These programs are bankrupting America in their current configuration. Their top-line spending must be cut across the board by 2% every year for the next 10 years with NO adjustment for inflation.

STOP BAILOUTS: Bailing out failing companies makes no more sense today than it would have made in 1900 to bail out buggy manufacturers. Solyndra and other failed “green” companies are examples of crony capitalism at taxpayer expense, not sound fiscal policy.

STOP FUNDING FOR ARTS: America can’t afford to spend money on the NEA, PBS and NPR.