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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (320962)	8/24/2009 12:09:26 PM
From: Murrey Walker	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

These union jerks just don't get it. C'mon Oral. You know that Obama said the union employees were part of the solution…not the problem. (g) That proclamation will haunt Obama in the 2010 and 2012 elections. Consumers are absolutely aware of the fact that the union "penalty tax" just won't go away until the unions do.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (320962)	8/24/2009 12:30:45 PM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793916

I'm of the opinion that both unions and management are at fault for many such conflicts (not necessarily this one, which I know nothing about). I know good management, and a good manager gets out on the floor and knows what the hell is going on. It's called management by walking around. Lots of plants don't have such a manager. Such plants get the union they deserve. If management did its job, unions would have no job. Intractable demands from unions are not in the service of their members. I don't know why the members tolerate it. Costco is a good example. The employees there don't have a union and every one I've talked to say it's a great place to work.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (320962)	8/25/2009 9:26:05 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

GOP is going after your congressman: washingtontimes.com Wisconsin Republicans are hoping to deliver a dose of the "real world" to powerful incumbent Democrat Rep. David R. Obey next year, but the definition of "reality" is up for debate between the top party's two contenders. And the hard political reality of Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District, which stretches from the center of the state through farmland and logging operations northwest to Lake Superior, is likely to leave Republicans in the dust for another election cycle. Sean Duffy, a former star on MTV's "The Real World," is running against Mr. Obey, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, hoping to exploit the Wisconsin Democrat's work in crafting the $787 billion economic stimulus bill. Mr. Duffy, who now works as a district attorney in northern Wisconsin, said the stimulus bill and plans to pay for a major health care reform bill have voters worried about their future. "I have been focusing on fiscal irresponsibility in D.C. and Dave Obey's role in bankrupting the country and passing on massive debt to the next generation and the generations after that," Mr. Duffy said Monday in an interview with The Washington Times. It's a long shot, but if elected, it is thought that Mr. Duffy would be the first reality-show star to make the transition from the small screen to the halls of Congress. Mr. Duffy, employed as a lumberjack at the time, appeared on the durable MTV show in 1997, holed up with fellow contestants in a house in Boston. Daniel Mielke, a Republican farmer who ran unsuccessfully last year against Mr. Obey, says "real" voters don't want another lawyer in Washington representing them. Mr. Mielke says he thinks voters — particularly those packing town-hall meetings across the nation — want more grass-roots organizers like himself in Congress. "We're losing our constitutional rights and freedoms," Mr. Mielke said Friday, in an interview with The Washington Times. "Dave Obey has a very extensive voting record. Most of [his votes] tend to lean toward a very controlling government." MORE.....