Just a place for stuff...

The Federal gubment is getting ready to use SSA data to crack down on employers who have significant numbers of employees with SS number discrepancies. There might be aliens about... aarrgghh!

AFL-CIO threatening lawsuit to stop the gubment from moving forward on this.... duh, what?

Gubment Set For Crackdown

I can never figure out where big labor is from day to day. Does the AFL-CIO ask their members how they feel?

What's "big" about the AFL-CIO?

Do you use the term 'big labor' out of habit, or do you really think that the AFL-CIO is some sort of worthy counterweight to 'big business'?

Ten million members and the fruits of their political clout? I'd say that's pretty big.

http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/faq/

What is the AFL-CIO? Get the union facts
The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the voluntary federation of America's unions, representing 10 million working women and men nationwide and another 1 million nonunion workers of Working America.

The AFL-CIO was formed in 1955 by the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Get the union facts.

My Way News

The stream of piss and moan at the debate calling for more socialism was pretty typical. Not a thing that went wrong couldn't be fixed by having the government either mandate someone else do it or have government take over completely.

Yeah....I couldn't tolerate it at all. For every societal problem, more government is the answer.

As a social moderate I'm willing to concede what spending we have, but the parade of losers and whiners that want something more has to end at some point. Why must all Dems who aren't rich politicians be painted as victims?

Paraphrasing Willie Sutton... that's where the votes are... er, thats where the votes are bought...

Victims will sell their votes cheap.

... and some folks foolishly think it is media ad spending by candidates that moves the vote when it is what is promised in those ads, benefits for voters using someone else's money that moves the voter...

Ads get your name out, but promises make you popular. If nobody ever knows your name you can't even get your message of bribery out.

Nah, most adds do not promise anything concrete. If only I meant 'political' adds . . .

Typical structure of ad being candidate will give you something (something that you want, that their opponent will not give you, and that they or their party has been keeping you from getting it before now) and someone other than you will pay for it...

Of course the ad is meaningless as nobody has ever voted for somebody because of their ad... just ask them.

The typical structure of political adds is not as you describe it. Please attempt to verify your claim by watching a few.

Something is not 'meaningless' because nobody did something specifically and singularly because of it, nor is it 'meaningful' only if somebody does something specifically and singularly because of it.

You're an engineer, you know about complex (system) causality.

Yeah I know that voters go into the polling place, cast their vote, the vote is counted, and a winner declared. Everything else... well except the Presidential Election process of converting citizen votes to electoral votes, is superfluous.

I see a lot of campaign ads, some are get to know the candidate, some are get to know the opponent, and the rest are here's what I am going to do for you. Some folks may not see it that way if they already think that is what gubment is supposed to do for them.

It's Fargin' War!



Duh, what? There's a right to participate in a political party presidential nomination process?

There must be a way for you to "check" whether your preconceived notions about how thing operate can be tested against what the rest of the world takes as 'reality'. You cannot consistently maintain that money-savvy folks are consistently irrational in how they choose to expend their money.

Most votes wins in every case.

Most money raised/spent does not win in many cases and even little money spent wins in some cases.

Voters in booth not slaves to media ads, never see money raised/spent and media seen mentioned as reason for vote in exit polls. I assume that most folks share my experience that media has never determined my vote and that campaign media is given no credibility given it's source. Plenty of info available on candidates other than campaign paid for media that provides voters with info they use to make up their mind who to vote for or against.

Lots or reasons for campaign to raise and spend money on campaigns that are not devoted to changing voters vote in the booth. I believe we agree that it is likely the money flows to the eventual winner rather than creates the eventual winner.

Just because a lot of people think something is true does not make it true...

Here we go...

AFL- CIO Legal Action



... yet to see much buzz among the rank and file...

Them wacky Michiganders got a real plan for their Presidential Primary, tell the major parties who voted for which party.



FREEP

With Rs and Ds running the Federal and State gubments little chance of doing the right thing here... withdraw all gubment funding for all political party presidential nomination processes.

If this one doesn't make ya go "Duh, WHAT?". nothin' will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3929lHG_9WA...2Ephp%3Ft%3D922

Dread the Fred indeed.

The first presidential election of the the citizen video age...

This is going to be a wild ride...

A-yup.

Pretty much!

immigrant_employers_lawsuit

Just reposted this to a couple of "rank and file" message boards. If there be any buzz, I'll let you know.

Will have to wait for Dobbs to weigh in next week to know for sure...

Lou Dobbs on a rant tonight about the AFL-CIO/ACLU lawsuit to stop the employer letters on employee no match name and SS number. He tossed in Chamber of Commerce too and said it indicated the power of this "cabal" running the Country to the detriment of the working man. The storming of the gates of power by the rank and file soon to follow. Either that or the UAW gives away their members bennies...

Luckily Lou doesn't have a real job as a "working man" or somebody's business would be in the crapper.

Lou's faithful bring in a good enough number for CNN's tastes... I wonder how he does in 2009 with a D controlled Federal gubment? Will his tone change as immigration continues to increase and jobs continue to move offshore, etc, his bread and butter issues?

Lou's about to throw a rod tonight between immigration, work visas and the Chi Coms. I may have to check out his website to see if they have a comment section. The Dobbers should be in high froth tonight.

As usual. I'm surprised so many economic Luddites can work the remote and cable box.

Lou has latched on to a loyal following by playing into peoples feelings, like Limbaugh.

Lou has a tenth of the positions. It's about a two trick pony. At least one appealing to the same folks as Limbaugh.

My favorite part of Lou's show is watching the reporter squirm when they kick it back to Lou and he goes on a rant often throwing in rhetorical questions to the reporter for which there is no real answer...

I'm afraid he isn't very appealing to Canadians with his nationalist rantings.

Don't you Canucks get Lou started on the prospects for a North American Union!

Several House Dems up on CSPAN in a Special Order railing on the Palestinians... must be an election approaching....

Philly, Vegas, New York, I guess Ft Lauderdale was out of pocket this evening...

Just changed to CNN... Lou dun blowed up his engine already... immigration...

Kinda comic, isn't it?

Is that a rerun? Or are all his shows reruns?

NDSS...FTW...LATW

Before Iraq hearing started today I saw a news piece comparing General Petraeus to either General Grant or General Westmorland depending on ones point of view. As I watched the hearing I had the thought that Rs are looking for General Grant and Ds are looking for General McClellan.

Which leads to the question... What would Grant do?

There wouldn't have been much of an Iraqi Army left to fuel the insurgency and Grant didn't do so good with the post war results either... took about 100 years to straighten out that mess...

Win.

The war was "won" in 2003.

Good plan...

GM Lordstown plant makes strike preparations

In all honesty, preparing to strike is not exactly sending the right signals to one's employer wrt to which plant to begin producing a new model at . . .

That's what I was thinkin'... they are trying to get that negotiated though... in return for UAW takeover of retiree healthcare fund... domestic automakers agree to keep specific plants open...

It's all part of the Full Pay To The Last Day Plan

You have to be willing to blow yourself up for the cause.

At least the Conservative Islamists become God's problem...

...UAW gave me benefits...

Who knew... it turns out GM didn't have billions of unfunded liabilities for UAW member benefits... the UAW gave them benefits to the members.