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Buffett: Secret ballot is important..."I'm against card check."
CNBC interview ^ | March 9 | PghBaldy

Posted on 03/09/2009 5:43:29 AM PDT by PghBaldy

He just said it live on CNBC...deflected it before but Joe Kernen asked again...Warren Buffett "I'm against card check"

Here is posting from CNBC blog: 8:33a: Buffett says union elections should continue to be by secret ballot. He is opposed to the "card check" proposal for worker votes on joining unions.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; billiondollarmarxist; buffett; buyersremorse; cardcheck; efca; secretballot; union
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To: PghBaldy

Buffet’s chickens are coming home to roost.

He’s a scumbag just trying to get people to put money into his comapny. And some are pulling their money out, like Bill Gates.


21 posted on 03/09/2009 6:20:53 AM PDT by stockpirate (A people unwilling to use violent force to defend liberty deserves the tyrant that rules them SP)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Buffett says union elections should continue to be by secret ballot. He is opposed to the "card check" proposal for worker votes on joining unions.
Since the proposal is going to pass, and this loser supported the Sock Puppet, big deal.
22 posted on 03/09/2009 6:27:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: AmericanGirlRising

“When will Buffett be producing his own David Brooks and regret his decision to back 0bama?”

Why, he’s getting to buy the market...cheap. Oh, I get it you think the public won’t throw the bums out in 2010. Sorry Warren, if that’s teh case, you may be in the food lines like everyone else.


23 posted on 03/09/2009 6:28:22 AM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (I'm studying Voodoo...curses cast daily. Landrieu be gone to the devil...)
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To: A Strict Constructionist

Warren is taking a bath just like everyone else.


24 posted on 03/09/2009 6:37:04 AM PDT by kabar
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To: AmericanGirlRising
BUFFETT: I WAS 'DUMB' (sends 21 page letter to shareholders)(NY POST 3/2/08 RICHARD WILNER)
25 posted on 03/09/2009 6:59:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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To: stockpirate

AIG got an $80billion dollar check and they are wanting more. How much will Warren Buffett be getting?


26 posted on 03/09/2009 7:00:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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To: PghBaldy

Buffett is a social liberal.

It rules him.

a baby killing enabler of the first order

may he rot in hell


27 posted on 03/09/2009 7:07:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (I've known black people over 50 years, raised with them and by them.. Obama ain't BLACK, HE"S RED!)
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To: McGruff

“I’ve become a BIG TIME Joe Kernen fan”

My condolences. I think Joe is a brain-dead Liberal, and when he starts speaking I make a quick lunge for the remote control. Becky Quick is a lot more intelligent than Joe, and also easy on the eyes.


28 posted on 03/09/2009 7:12:13 AM PDT by devere
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To: AmericanGirlRising
When will Buffett be producing his own David Brooks and regret his decision to back 0bama?

The shares of Berkshire Hathaway is now at the levels 10 years ago... not only that, some of his biggest picks are hurting him... Wells Fargo, American Express and now... Burlington Northern.

But I don't feel so sorry for him... he made the choice to back up a socialist and remember him telling everyone that he doesn't think he is being taxed enough? Well, since Warren lost half of his net worth... I bet you he is really regretting his decision now...

29 posted on 03/09/2009 7:19:05 AM PDT by John123 (The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
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To: PghBaldy

Blind pig::Acorn


30 posted on 03/09/2009 7:33:34 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: PghBaldy

31 posted on 03/09/2009 7:34:16 AM PDT by B Knotts (Worst economy since the Third Punic War)
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To: AmericanGirlRising

Buffeet is a greed sh**. His Berkshire Hathaway owns Kirby vacuums which preys on poor old people in rural areas. They end up selling people in trailers $500 vacs on time payments with high interest rate financing deals. So people in trailers end up paying $3,000 for a vac. A story in the WSJ a few years ago talked about Kirby’s slimy practices.


32 posted on 03/09/2009 7:44:11 AM PDT by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: longtermmemmory
Most of the interview has been Buffet in “rescue obama” mode. Buffet has been delusionally pro obama.

Correct. There is a disconnect between what he is saying about the efficacies of 0bama's policies (none) and his general support for 0bama.

It could be delusion on the part of the old coot. But I think it is intellectual dishonesty. Buffet railed several times against corporate dishonesty, and then lied his ass off when the topic was 0bama.

33 posted on 03/09/2009 8:07:00 AM PDT by qwertypie
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To: theDentist

Exactly.....Obozo has already told the union thugs that he’ll pay up.


34 posted on 03/09/2009 8:17:29 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: qwertypie

HUGE logic disconect.

Buffet is essentially rescuing his OWN positions.

Oracle of Omaha is just playing to the mob to save his own posterior.

imagine the birkshire shareholders bailing on him.


35 posted on 03/09/2009 8:30:09 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

“Buffet has been delusionally pro obama.”

Just speculating, but I doubt buffett is prone to rapturous adulation when it comes to politicians. He could not have survived at his level as long as he has if he were.

Following this assumption, I conclude it means he thinks the interests that are presumed to be running the current administration are in his best interests as well.

His interests are not our interests. Billionaires are functionally as powerful as small nation-states, and have little in common with us.


36 posted on 03/09/2009 8:38:46 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: PghBaldy

I don’t take anything Buffett takes seriously. He’s just the typical lib who advocates higher tax rates, while having several armies of lawyers and accountants looking at every angle they can get to minimize HIS tax liability (just like the Kennedys, for instance). The day Buffett actually pays taxes at the rates at which he wants everyone else to pay them, is the day I’ll consider taking him seriously.


37 posted on 03/09/2009 8:44:51 AM PDT by Emile ("If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything" -- Unknown)
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To: PghBaldy
Buffet's not happy eh?

Well then it's a darn good thing it's Soros' turn to work the puppet strings today.

38 posted on 03/09/2009 9:18:06 AM PDT by libs_kma (F.U.B.O.)
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To: PghBaldy

I hope Buffett loses billions. He’re your president, Warren. Suck it up.


39 posted on 03/09/2009 9:29:13 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Obama = Jimmy Carter II)
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To: longtermmemmory

Buffett said that both Republicans and Demos should support Obama. Since it’s rather obvious that Congressional Demos are on the same page as Obama, what Buffett really means is this: Republicans should cave in and do whatever Obama wants.

To the contrary, Republicans should grow a backbone and oppose Obama’s socialism.


40 posted on 03/09/2009 9:32:25 AM PDT by pleikumud
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