"Orange Juice! Politics For The Rest Of Us." - 12 new articles
Moderate GOP gubernatorial candidate thinks spending isn’t the problem with the state budget
Former GOP Congressman Tom Campbell is now a moderate Republican gubernatorial candidate. He has started a new blog as part of his campaign to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010. Campbell believes that Governor Schwarzenegger had no choice but to raise our taxes. Here is how he explains this theory:
I disagree with Campbell to a certain extent as there is still a ton of waste in our state budget. However, he points out that when he “was Finance Director of California, we balanced the state budget, without increases in taxes, in borrowing, or any phony accounting. In Congress, I received National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, and Concord Coalition awards for holding the line of spending. Indeed, in terms of the cost of bills introduced, I was cited by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation as the single most frugal Member of the 102nd Congress.” Ultimately, Campbell blames the recession and collapse of our stock market for the budget problems in our state, as follows:
I can buy part of this argument, but I still believe that our Governor and State Legislators could cut more waste. Consider the ridiculous six figure salaries they dole out to termed out legislators who sit on state boards. The voters booted crazed former State Senator Carole Migden out of Sacramento, only to see the Governor appoint her to a waste board complete with a huge six figure salary. That sort of B.S. needs to end now! Do YOU think that our political leaders have cut enough waste in Sacramento? I don’t see how this message is going to help Campbell get elected. Perhaps he didn’t hear about the Tax Revolt? Are the South Coast Water District Board of Directors flying under the radar screen?
With the focus on the presidents recovery plans, tax increases in California, job losses, foreclosures and dwindling 401 K’s, there is a public agency that rarely gets any public attention. I am referring to all of our “special districts” where Board members are elected. Years ago our very own Santa Margarita Water District, SMWD, made the news as reported here:
Although we did have a little mist today I wonder if there is any connection of a dark cloud over the South Coast Water District relating to what may be a “no bid” Contract Award next Thursday, March 26th. At their March 10th meeting the Subject of Agenda Item #9 reads: “Special Project Services for Public Outreach Objectives.” In the Staff Report it is requesting an amount up to $36,000 for the balance of FY 2008/2009 yet does not indicate any RFP for said services. When is this consulting effort to be completed? Will this consulting effort continue indefinitely and at what cost? Making matters worse the report reads “Directors suggested that the Kathy Barnum Agency provide a proposal for additional services.” In essence apparently the water district is giving the fox the keys to the chicken coop. Has the Board asked the Kathy Barnum Agency to write the project scope and give this same firm the Contract award? That’s sweet. Among other recycle water quality issues, the education plan relates to community efforts to “improve the environment by reducing the impacts from water softener systems.” With so many people out of work, as well as others engaged in public relations I have to believe that there is surely more than one firm ready, willing and able to at least submit a bid before awarding this contract. I would also question having the pre determined vendor drafting the contract which may give that firm a leg up on any other candidate. The only difference in text between the March 10th and March 26th Agenda’s is the addition of NEW INFORMATION stating that the contract for the Kathy Barnum Agency was discussed at the Administration and Finance Committee meeting on March 10, 2009. Has a contract been awarded before the vote and meeting of March 26th? What is the spending cap for an apparent no-bid contact for this type of service by this agency? Folks. If you or anyone you know has experience in providing this type of service let me urge you act on or to pass along this blog article. The SOUTH COAST WATER DISTRICT meeting is being held at the City of Dana Point Council Chamber, 33282 Golden Lantern, Dana Point, CA 92629. Thursday, March 26, 2009 starting at 6 p.m. This issue is found as Agenda Item #13. I would bring my resume and request an opportunity to receive a copy of the RFP, if one exists, and request a delay so that you have a reasonable amount of time to submit your bid. Some use the word “change” for 2009. Another word that I prefer is “transparency.” Anatomy of a Sub-Prime Loan!
Our world banking crisis started someplace. It is odd that no one seems to want to take credit. Investment Banks, Pension Funds, Institutional Investors, Common Banks, Title Insurance Companies, Asset Managers and the Rating Agencies. We suppose the concept here is to simply lump all those bad decisions together and in a circle point fingers in the opposite direction. If we hear: “There is enough blame to go around!” we might be nearing critical mass. Oh, it was supposed to be the SEC that didn’t do its job. It was uncapable enforcement officers of the SEC..that couldn’t get it right! No, it was the lawmakers like Barney Frank that whistled while Rome burned! No, it was Senator Dodd, that let the baby genie out of the bottle on the AIG Salary and Bonus scheme….even though they had taken $170 Billion dollars to place in various rat holes……around the world. “The Market” is a big part of the delirium surrounding the fall of Stocks, Pensions, Mutual Funds and Public Employee Investment Funds. They state arguments like: “We need to stabilize the market!”, “We need to bring back Real Estate and Commercial Pricing Stabilization….to the Market!” The words do not help the fact that literally trillions of dollars are being printed each and every day - and each and every day that money goes into foreign banks or funds which still are capable of shorting the market enough….that small business people in the USA…..still can’t get a loan. Still upside down enough that even the credit card companies are raising our rates to mean spirited and cruel limits….upwards of 35% or more…just in case you miss a payment date. “The big TA-DA” caused by AIG and their bonus issue was predicated on the testimony of Ed Liddy…the current CEO. Ed had to come out of retirement and get paid the traditional $1 dollar a year…..so he could cover the rest of the “Greedy” brokers and traders. Ed used the term “Unwinding Investment Vehicles” a lot. He stated that they were “complex” and required only the best and brightest to fix it. How long does Ed want to “Unwind” these Assets? He compared it to another situation that took four years! Just so you know….the Congress wasn’t buying Ed’s mouthwash and promptly passed a 90% tax on all bonus issues for AIG and any other companies that had been taking the Federal TARP funds. So, these are the results. A world economic collapse! We find ourselves begging all the countries of the world to arbitrarily flood their banks with their own depreciated printed cash - just so we won’t go belly up. Maybe, as much as $8 Trillion dollars….just to start. That famous Big 8 has changed to the Big 20! Who even knows who can play in the big game now? Back to “Unwinding”. They have another term that means the same thing: “Deleveraging”. When Bob & Mable bought their dream home in Costa Mesa for $475,000 dollars on 19th Street in early 2007…..Bob and Mable were retired on Social Security. Their little house in Hemet had gone up in value and they finally after 50 years could bearly squeak by with some Pension retirement from the Hemet Fire Department and their Social Security. They got a “Liar Loan” from Washington Mutual who promptly sold their loan to an internet Mortgage Company, who quickly sold it to a Foreign Hedge Fund, who sold it to an Investment Bank in London, who sold it Fannie Mae. At any rate, Bob & Mable didn’t care as long as they could make their monthly house payment. They even had banks asking them to borrow more from the $150,000 dollar principal they got out of their Hemet home. Luckily we suppose, they didn’t bite on that rotten tomato. What they failed to consider however was this word “Resets”. Their 2.9% APR….would ramp up in five years to 14.5% They never saw it coming. They thought that they just fix up the Costa Mesa, sell it and buy maybe even a small condo that they could afford. Oooops! Fannie Mae was all set to “Foreclose” on Bob and Mable’s property when the Congress stepped in at the last minute. Bob and Mable were quick to try to “Refinance” their home with better loan options. Sadly, their $475,000 dollar home was now worth $285,000 and falling. They even had four “Foreclosed” properties on their street. No one was buying, selling, trading or fixing anything! Bob’s Pension from the Hemet Fire Department had shrunken to about 40% of its original value….and his monthly payments were dwindling. Bob heard about “Unwinding”, “Deleveraging”, “Sub-Prime Loans”, “Liar Loans”, “APR adjustables”, “Credit Default Swaps” and lots and lots of Banks that were no more….including his beloved Washington Mutal. They all belonged to someone else….and his caring loan agent in Hemet was no more! Bank of American sent him a nice note. “We suggest, that you let us re-finance your property within the 90 days….or face foreclosure!” The trick of course is that Bob and Mable now cannot qualify to refinance a tricycle….much less a $475,000 house. The prognosis is not good. It’s about a 1 in 3 chance that Bob and Mable are going to lose their home, their life savings they accured with their house in Hemet……and they could wind up on the streets. What needs to be done? Re-value all Sub-Prime Loans, Credit Default Swaps and other so-called “Toxic Assets”! We need to write them down or write them off……six months ago! We need to stop printing money to send to foreign banks to prop up these worthless entities. We need to re-value all homes purchased from January of 2005 to January 2009! We need to then adjust the monthly payments….and we need to roll back all rents, on Rental property to January of 2007. Could we do it? Sure, with some “will and wisdom”! Will we do it? “Probably not!” There are way too many people that cannot see the forest for the trees and think that “nothing can them”! Our thought is: “They are very wrong!” We need to re-establish a workable “Social Contract” for this country. Additionally, we cannot prop up the entire world banking systems and survive for very long. We have been take down a peg….and the time has come to admit it! It used to be said and bus going over a clift half full of lawyers was a waste of 50 seats. We think that goes double for bankers wanting to bail out worthless Sub-Prime Loans and their other “so complex” Investment vehicles! Has the AIG bonus scandal become Obama’s Katrina?
An Op-Ed in the New York Times is asking the question “has Obama’s Katrina moment arrived?” They are referring to the AIG bonuses and the disastrous bailout of Wall St. and our banks. We have seen in the past few weeks that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is not ready for prime time - nor are most of Obama’s economic team, including Larry Summers. Their collective responses to the AIG bonus scandal have been legalese, not action. Here are a few excerpts from the New York Times Op-Ed:
You would think that Obama should be considering booting the lame Geithner, but “embattled Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner’s job is safe and the subject of resignation has not come up in his conversations with President Obama despite calls from some in Congress for Geithner to step down, the president said in an interview to be broadcast tonight on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” according to the Washington Post. I don’t know how most folks feel about this, but Geithner is starting to look like Obama’s Mike Brown. You’re doing a great job Timmy!” Barf… Is the proposed gang injunction in Orange “racial profiling?”
(Picture Courtesy of the O.C. Register) Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.“Orange residents gathered Saturday afternoon to protest a gang injunction being sought by Orange police. About 50 protesters met at Killefer Park on North Lemon Street before marching through Old Towne and around the traffic circle,” according to the O.C. Register. “They seem to be using racial profiling to determine who’s a gang member,” said Anaheim resident Joseph Gallardo, a member of civil rights group Chicanos Unidos. He said the protest aims to raise awareness. Laws are already put in place to stop gangs, he said, so the injunction is not needed. I think what folks are missing here is that there are many decent families who have been affected by gangs. So you might have one gang member in a family that is otherwise law-abiding. Moreover, gangs have been around for decades in Orange County. These ties run deep. And gang members on parole ought to be given a chance to change their ways. That said, folks are angry about the surge in gang violence in central Orange County and action is demanded. Injunctions are not perfect but they mollify residents who want to see something, anything, done. So are injunctions racial profiling? Be sure to vote in our instant poll, below the picture on top of this story. Should U.S. Senator Dem. Christopher Dodd be placed on the endangered species list?
We are all familiar with the movie Network where news anchor Howard Beale says “I’m mad as hell and am not going to take this anymore.” In fact it might have been felt by President Obama based on all the heat his administration has received of late as it relates to that household name, AIG. The following article, written by Aaron Kennon, comes from the Connecticut Post. My advise to GOP leadership in that state is to immediately mobilize to take this New England seat while the iron is hot. If he doesn’t do the honorable thing and resign the Honorable Senator from CT. should be defeated in 2011. Other than his name being stated in the media what do we really know about him and his major campaign donors? Dodd’s actions speak louder than his words Washington D.C. has failed us on many levels over the last many decades. We have allowed our elected officials to serve as politicians instead of principled leaders. Far from being “statesmen,” they embarrass themselves and mock our democracy by spending time raising money across the nation, instead of indicating interest in their job, which is to govern, not constantly run for office. Why does this happen? Most of them have such a strong desire to win re-election that they will corrupt the system and abort their duties as stewards to see to it that this happens. Let’s take our own U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd as a prime example. As a ranking member of the all-important U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs between 2003 and 2008, Dodd accepted donations from the nearly defunct insurance giant American International Group totaling nearly $225,000. In 2008, while we looked to him to represent our best interests, he received $157,194 from a now-quasi-nationalized Citigroup Inc., part of his total annual take of $854,200 from all TARP recipients, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. How can he truly represent his constituents’ best interests when he is accepting vast sums of money from organizations that the government has assisted through the infusion of federal tax dollars? While legal, an objective observer should question the judgment and ethics of our state’s senior senator. His poor judgment does not stop there. The senator was one of the most significant recipients of money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, now nationalized due to poor oversight and years of legislative mismanagement. According to his office as reported just two weeks ago, Dodd has agreed to return campaign donations from TARP recipients since the government began infusing the companies. What an honorable decision considering that his hand was caught in the cookie jar! Further, Dodd received from Countrywide Financial, an entity that was sold to Bank of America in order to avoid bankruptcy, a special below-market mortgage rate on his two personal residences. He called a “V.I.P.” number at Countrywide and in so doing abused his position as a lead oversight legislator in the U.S. Senate. The list goes on and on for Dodd. Many people caught acting in equally unethical ways would quit their jobs out of shame, or be immediately dismissed from their employer. Dodd has not quit, and his employer is the voting public here in Connecticut. So while he at once cultivates a public image of outrage, he privately accepts funds from the very companies that have created a great deal of the current credit debacle. This sheds light on his true allegiance — to himself — and this activity can and must be stopped by the voters of Connecticut. Our country is experiencing the most significant economic crisis since the Great Depression, and Dodd is exposed, weakened and rudderless. Connecticut deserves more in this time of crisis. Connecticut deserves a break from political partisanship and self-interested service. The central issue before the 2010 senatorial election, then, is obvious: the economy. Has Dodd provided us with any solutions that will mend the current crisis and propel us onto a firmer foundation for recovery and sustainable growth? Has he proposed a reduction in our federal income taxes? Has he discussed ways in which some — but not all — environmental efficiency reforms can benefit consumers in the form of lower monthly utility bills? The not-so-rhetorical answer to all of these and many other critical questions is: No! Dodd has spent the last several decades in Washington, D.C., and has lost touch with our state, our communities, and our desire to determine our own destiny as individuals and families. We demand a good deal from ourselves, and should demand the same from our elected officials. It is time to try something new. It is time for this state to add some fresh faces to the political scene. I am referring to the ascent of citizen soldiers who live and work among us, raise families, and care about their schools, the environment and their communities. I am referring to those who represent the raw material of “statesmen.” This is not the moment to waver in our desire for real leadership and real change. The future is uncertain. Straight talk and a little bit of tough love is what we demand from our elected officials. In order for this to become a reality, Dodd must move on, and the torch must be passed to a new generation of Americans who care deeply about the political discourse and the path on which it sets our great nation. Aaron Kennon, a resident of Old Greenwich, is an investment manager in New York City. His e-mail address is aaron.kennon@gmail.com. Gilbert comments. While we are angry about the $165 billion paid out in bonuses by AIG, and whereas I question using the tax code as a weapon to punish the recipients, the key players deserving to be tarred and feathered are Senator Chris Dodd and Treasury Sec Timothy Geithner. At this point in American we have been dumbed-down to accept billions of dollars as “chump change” when our president speaks of “investing” trillions (of our grandkids money) at every opportunity. In fact I only recently learned that one trillion is the number one followed by a dozen zero’s. Orange Juice still on top of the O.C. political blogosphere
I checked out the Red Clownty blog today and found that they have a new CEO named Chip Hanlon. He put up a video where he explained that things have changed at Red Clownty and now they are going to really go after Republican hacks. The problem is that these clowns got the hacks elected in the first place! Will these red-faced goons ever recover from the drubbing that KFI’s John and Ken gave them last week? It was awesome! John and Ken called them a “Kool-Aid Drinker’s” blog and worse. And take a look at the results in the graphic above, which comes from the number one web traffic data service, Alexa.com. They are steadily sliding, as is the CA Republican Party. Sure, Red Clownty gets a lot of hits, but they are a national blog. They SHOULD get a lot of hits, given that their blog includes over thirty different red blogs. Our blog is holding its own. We are now averaging over 1,600 visits a day, and over 3,000 page views a day, according to Sitemeter. And, as you can see in the graphic above, we are trouncing the blue guys over at the Liberal OC too. Their own Sitemeter data indicates that we get over twice the readers and page views than they do, consistently. I credit my blog team, which is the most diverse group of writers in the O.C. And I think that our success proves that our format is the best one in the O.C. We are not red and we are not blue. We are Orange! Our politics reflect the people of this county. We lean Libertarian but our team includes Democrats and Republicans. And Red Clownty can talk about holding Republicans accountable, but we do that to ALL the elected officials in this county, regardless of their party affiliation. And I remain awed at how many folks read and comment on our 2009 SAUSD post. That post has really a become vibrant online community for folks teaching in Santa Ana and for parents and students in the SAUSD. One more thing - there are no “political consultants” on our team. That is an important fact to consider. Red Clownty is teeming with consultant hacks. No bueno! And all of my writers live and work here in Orange County. The Liberal OC’s editor lives in Long Beach! There is plenty of room in this county for all the above-referenced blogs, but there is only one Orange Juice. I thank YOU for reading our blog! UPDATE: Click here to read about how the Internet is surging as a major influence on the political landscape. Will President Obama pull a Reagan and pass another Amnesty?
Will President Barack Obama follow in the footsteps of President Ronald Reagan and pass another amnesty for immigrants? I hope so. I believe this would be a HUGE economic stimulus as it would bring millions of people out of the shadows and allow them to open bank accounts and buy cars and houses. I believe that Obama and the Democrats in Congress will indeed give us another amnesty. But it won’t be a free ride. The San Francisco Chronicle published what Obama had to say at the Orange County townhall meeting this week regarding immigration: As many of you know, during the campaign I was asked repeatedly about this, and I reiterated my belief that we have to have comprehensive immigration reform. Now, I know this is an emotional issue, I know it’s a controversial issue, I know that the people get real riled up politically about this, but — but ultimately, here’s what I believe: We are a nation of immigrants, number one. Number two, we do have to have control of our borders. Number three, that people who have been here for a long time and put down roots here have to have some mechanism over time to get out of the shadows, because if they stay in the shadows, in the underground economy, then they are oftentimes pitted against American workers. Since they can’t join a union, they can’t complain about minimum wages, et cetera, they end up being abused, and that depresses the wages of everybody, all Americans. So I don’t think that we can do this piecemeal. I think what we have to do is to come together and say, we’re going to strengthen our borders — and I’m going to be going to Mexico, I’m going to be working with President Calderón in Mexico to figure out how do we get control over the border that’s become more violent because of the drug trade. We have to combine that with cracking down on employers who are exploiting undocumented workers. We have to make sure that there’s a verification system to find out whether somebody is legally able to work here or not. But we have to make sure that that verification system does not discriminate just because you’ve got a Hispanic last name or your last name is Obama. You’ve got to..say to the undocumented workers, you have to say, look, you’ve broken the law; you didn’t come here the way you were supposed to. So this is not going to be a free ride. It’s not going to be some instant amnesty. What’s going to happen is you are going to pay a significant fine. You are going to learn English. You are going to — you are going to go to the back of the line so that you don’t get ahead of somebody who was in Mexico City applying legally. But after you’ve done these things over a certain period of time you can earn your citizenship, so that it’s not — it’s not something that is guaranteed or automatic. You’ve got to earn it. But over time you give people an opportunity. Now, it only works though if you do all the pieces. I think the American people, they appreciate and believe in immigration. But they can’t have a situation where you just have half a million people pouring over the border without any kind of mechanism to control it. So we’ve got to deal with that at the same time as we deal in a humane fashion with folks who are putting down roots here, have become our neighbors, have become our friends, they may have children who are U.S. citizens.That’s the kind of comprehensive approach that we have to take. Sheriff Sandra Hutchens cancels Mike Schroeder’s concealed weapon permit
“Hutchens this week notified attorney Mike Schroeder, the main adviser and closest ally to former Sheriff Mike Carona, that she is terminating his permit to carry a concealed weapon,” according to the O.C. Register. I really don’t feel safe knowing that Schroeder is running around with a concealed weapon. In general I think Hutchens has overreached on this issue, but why does Schroeder need a concealed weapon? I wonder if former Carona flack Jon Fleischman still has a CCW? In this instance, I must applaud the Sheriff for doing the right thing. Orange County is safer with Schroeder’s gun locked up in a safe. California Republicans sliding into oblivion as registration drops almost 5%
All hope is lost for the California Republican Party…as GOP voter registration plummets! “As of Feb. 10, the state had 17.3 million registered voters, up about 30,000 from Oct. 20. But during that period, Democratic registrations rose by 33,000, while the number of Republicans fell by 30,000,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “But the numbers are mainly a continuation of a trend - GOP registration has dropped from 35.2 percent of the state’s registered voters in February 2003 to 31.1 percent now. During that period, Democratic registration has grown, moving from 43 percent in 2005 to 44.5 percent today. The percentage of decline-to-state voters also has grown, moving to 20 percent of the electorate.” Memo to the California GOP - it might be too late to save your party. How long have I been warning you guys? The Talibani Republican agenda is not popular with most Californians, period. Hating on gays and Mexicans is a recipe for disaster. The one issue the Republicans had was fighting taxes. And now that is off the table. In fact John and Ken, from KFI, are reporting that the CA GOP might back Prop. 1A - which is a tax increase. Unbelievable. My advice to those still hanging onto the GOP is to quit today. Join the Libertarian Party or go Decline to State. The GOP does not deserve your support! The “Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous” Tour of AIG Executive Homes
Connecticut’s Gold Coast AIG haven The Connecticut Working Families Party, which has support from organized labor, is planning a bus tour of A.I.G. executives’ homes today, with a stop at the company’s Wilton office.
The group will be presenting a letter to those AIG Executives during the tour requesting that the executives give their bonuses to Connecticut to help close the budget gap that is cripling the state. They’ve even enclosed a courtesy envelope addressed to Connecticut’s Department of Revenue Services. I say: Why not give it a try? Apparently the actual tax payer cost of the bonuses has grown an additional $53 million dollars virtually overnight! Connecticut’s attorney general says documents turned over to his office by American International Group Inc. shows the company paid out $218 million in bonuses, higher than the $165 million previously disclosed. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s office received the documents late Friday after issuing a subpoena. Blumenthal says the documents show that 73 people received at least $1 million apiece, and five of those got bonuses of more than $4 million. The financially ailing insurance giant has been under fire for giving bonuses after receiving more than $182.5 billion in federal bailout money. AIG spokesman Mark Herr declined to comment Saturday. The goofs over at CNBC join Rush Limbaugh in defending the bonuses, going even so far as to claim that tax payers and affected citizens are no better than angry pitchfork and torch carrying mobs.
AIG has warned it’s bonus-getting employees to travel in pairs, to refrain from sporting the company logo and to be ready to call 911 as safety precautions. I am looking forward to the Youtube video footage of the event. I’d love to get a glimpse of Jackpot Jimmy’s place!
“Jackpot Jimmy”, aka James Haas, bigtime AIG bonus baby. Photo courtesy of NYPost. Union hacks want to take away CVS worker’s rights to confidential union elections
What a bunch of hackish union thugs! “Dozens of protesters rallied Thursday outside a CVS pharmacy in downtown Santa Ana, their grievances against the drugstore giant summed up by an expired box of infant gas medicine,” according to the O.C. Register. It figures that these union creeps were trying to buy fart pills! “The protest was part of a national campaign to spotlight what critics of CVS – including California’s attorney general – have described as a persistent problem with outdated products on its shelves.” California’s Attorney General? You mean the union sycophant Jerry Brown? “The group reported in December that it had surveyed nearly 300 CVS stores around Los Angeles, and found at least one container of expired infant formula, milk or eggs for sale at 43 percent of them.” Let’s do the math here. Forty three percent of 300 means that 129 stores had “at least one” container of expired materials. But is this unique to CVS? I think if you were to audit union-run supermarkets you would probably find problems there too. I don’t know about other folks, but I always check expiration dates when I shop for groceries. Moreover, “in a statement, CVS spokesman Mike DeAngelis said company policy requires that items be removed from the shelves before they reach their expiration dates. But, he said, the typical CVS pharmacy has more than 100,000 items on its shelves, and “no process this labor-intensive is immune from error.” “The Santa Ana protest, like the national campaign, was organized by an alliance of labor unions called Change to Win.” “The Santa Ana protest, like the national campaign, was organized by an alliance of labor unions called Change to Win.” At last we arrive at the truth. This lame protest had NOTHING to do with expired products. These union thugs are indeed looking for a change - according to CVS spokesman Mike DeAngelis, “the union group had singled out CVS “after we refused to waive our employees’ right to vote confidentially in union elections.”" Think about that for a moment. Why would workers want to waive their rights to vote confidentially in union elections? This is all about pressuring workers to vote union - and taking away their privacy! Furthermore, if the unions succeed in forcing CVS to go union, what will that do to their prices? They will go up of course. And who will be screwed by that? The public - during a recession no less. At the end of the day this is what the greedy union activists are all about. The reality is that CVS stores offer good jobs to students and retired folks. But if all you aspire to is a union retail job then I have a bit of advice for you. Get a life! You will never earn a great living in retail, period. Go back to school, learn a trade or start a business. Stop wasting time trying to force stores to go union! |
Click here to safely unsubscribe now from "Orange Juice! Politics For The Rest Of Us." or change subscription settings
Unsubscribe from all current and future newsletters powered by FeedBlitz
| Your requested content delivery powered by FeedBlitz, LLC, 9 Thoreau Way, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA. +1.978.776.9498 |
0 коммент.
Post a Comment