Posted on 03/01/2011 10:27:31 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Rep. Rangel: Abolishing unions' collective bargaining 'close to slavery' By Jordan Fabian - 03/01/11 12:24 PM ET
State governments taking steps to "abolish" collective bargaining rights for workers is similar to slavery, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) contends.
Speaking Monday at a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) event about GOP-proposed budget cuts, Rangel brought up Republican governors' plans to target public sector workers, as in the case of Gov. Scott Walker's budget fix plan in Wisconsin.
“It doesn’t really make any sense at all for the president of the United States to talk about creating jobs in order to improve the economy and find out that mayors and governors are talking about laying off people," Rangel said. "Collective bargaining is something that is so close to slavery in terms of abolishing it, that it is not an American concept to tell people that they cannot discuss their economic position."
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“Rep. Rangel: Abolishing unions’ collective bargaining ‘close to slavery’”
What does he think taxation is? You work for the government until June and then you work for yourself. It is like sharecropping.
Along with plenty of others...Charles Rangel comes to my mind.
Ya gotta give a salute to old Charlie for managing to wring one more tainted play out of the race card.
Why is this POS not locked up in federal penitentiary? Oh wait, never mind.
Wow... you can’t make this stuff up!!
So’s paying taxes, right, Charlie?
i guess the fearmongering is not working.
Charlie Rangel is a low lifed, no good, harlem ******, that ****** ####.
I apologize for my vile thoughts and if I were over at du and typed the things that I blocked out, I'd be getting rave reviews...if the postings were about GWB.
Federal workers don’t have collective bargaining “rights” (I REALLY hate that term in this context) - so are all federal workers slaves?
Hey, Charlie the Corrupt: I fart in your general direction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA
Been sittin’ around Washington so long, he forgot the basic facts; ‘if I don’t want to pay you what you want, you can’t make me. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE AND BOTHER SOMEBODY ELSE, HALF-WIT!’
These union twits aren’t just delusional and denialist, they absolutely do not want to even hear truth.
No Charlie, forcing the taxpayer to fund union demands is slavery, and you have been guilty of it for more than 30 years!
DING! DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!
MAN ,I hate that,The Auto default to Slavery by these racist Idiots ,who should be sweeping floors given their intelligence level,that includes everyone of them with a (D) on their name.
He is so crooked. When he dies, they won't have to dig a grave. They'll just screw him into the ground.
LOL!!! Good one!
-Rex
Another version:
He is so crooked, he can hide behind a corkscrew without being seen.
Redneck version:
He is so crooked, he’d make a great trailer house anchor.
Or: He’s so crooked he has to screw his socks on.
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