Dear GOP,

I know you talk the talk of "freedom" and "liberty" but I am not sure those words mean what you think they mean.
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When last I ranted I promised to share any "gems" I found in the 2012 Republican Party Platform. I don't like posting too often, but traipsing across this item just got my blood boiling. Let's read:

Restructuring the U.S. Postal Service for the Twenty-First CenturyThe dire financial circumstances of the Postal Service require dramatic ( Read more... )

Who said we were forever divided as a people? Probably every conservative in this community.

Despite the shrilly protests of conservatives that Tea Party supporters and Occupy members have nothing in common, including political agendas, Georgians untied united today under quite a diverse tent to circumvent bad bills into becoming bad laws.

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Whenever I hear someone use that absurd argument that: "unions were useful once, but they've outlived their purpose" (its a claim my brother makes) I can't help but get frustrated. frustrated that people who claim such nonsense don't consider things like this

Now, I am SURE some people here will defend the rights of the employer to do whatever the ( Read more... )

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As we know, Newt Gingrich, the current GOP frontrunner has doubled down on his idea of getting rid of all those dumb ol’ child labor laws and paying schoolkids to clean toilets and occasionally mop up vomit in the hallways.

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"Unions drove jobs overseas!"/"Employers will just move to China ( Read more... )

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http://news.yahoo.com/longshoremen-storm-wash-state-port-damage-rr-144921214.html

OK, my first reaction is "Ha ha ha these people are stupid."

My second reaction is to note that this is actually less a clear-cut case of labor violence against capital than some with varying agendas might turn it into. As noted here:

No one was hurt, and nobody has
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"The world's largest aerospace and defense company is accused by the National Labor Relations Board, an independent government agency, of putting the second 787 line in South Carolina to punish Washington-based workers for past strikes."This has been around for a week or so by now, but I haven't seen anyone post on it ( Read more... )