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To: Srexley who wrote (194421)	10/22/2001 3:10:52 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>>Note - saying you don't like unions is not saying you don't like union employees. And you know that. The always acid-tongued Mark "Maxi" Shields sets up that same straw man all the time in his CNN diatribes. Novak - who actually runs the show - should fire Shields, that ideologue Hunt and that nitwit Carlson and get at least one smart Liberal on there. There must be some somewhere. Just for ratiungs sake. But maybe they're there just to make everyone else look good. btw, on Imus Time-CNN's Carlson, whose daughter works for the Dem party, told Imus during the Gore election stealing drama that the overseas military absentee votes should not count in FL because all they were were tax cheats. Imus took exception with that and noted that not only were they not tax cheats - after all by Carlson's definition Clinton was the true tax cheat - but that the soldiers were also underpaid. Carlson disagreed, saying they were paid very well. Imus told her she was wrong and that many had to use food stamps to feed their families. Remember that exchange next time General Carlson offers up military advice. Decisive "Tax Dodgers"? Time columnist Margaret Carlson: "Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election." Don Imus: "I don’t think we want to refer, we want to refer to people serving in the military as tax dodgers, do you?" Carlson: "No, but they’ve chosen a state of convenience like going to the Cayman Islands...I mean this is just taking this whole tax issue a little too far." – November 8 exchange on MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning simulcast on absentee ballots from military personnel in Florida. Florida does not have a state income tax. mediaresearch.org

To: Srexley who wrote (194421)	10/22/2001 6:57:43 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Wrong again. Unions = union employees. A similar analogy would be someone cutting down the U.S. Marine Corps, then saying, "Oh, by the way, I think the individual Marines are a pretty decent lot." Sorry. Doesn't work that way. By cutting down unions in this country, you also cut down individual union members, including the postal workers who died today of anthrax. Or to put it another way, union leadership doesn't tell the members what to do. The members tell union leadership what to do. I hope you, JLA, and the rest of the hate-mongers sleep well tonight knowing that you have bashed 16 million honest Americans who work for a living (unlike many on this thread). Someone has to step forward for the "little man." Looks like I'm that person on this thread.