Posted on 11/14/2011 6:58:25 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Herman Cain said he supports the "right" for public employees to bargain collectively. In other words, he is in favor of unions on the taxpayer dime. Cain also said federal workers have unions, meaning the right to collectively bargain, but they do not.
On the issue of collective bargaining, Cain said he supported the right of public employees to bargain collectively.
"But not collective hijacking. What I mean by that, if they have gotten so much for so many years and it's going to bankrupt the state, I don't think that's good. It appears that in some instances, they really don't care."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Prove it! I think you're full of BS.
>> You don’t know your Commies. The fact you are against worrying about that aspect of our history is highly disturbing. Maybe you do know your Commies.
You had probably best straighten out your thinking here. Joe McCarthy was not wrong. >>
You are obviously many drinks into your nighty toddies. The post above makes no sense in light of what I have said - and the idea that being against government unions is the same thing as being pro communist is simply an absurd and deranged position that has not even the slightest scintilla of common sense to back it up.
Go away union troll.
“I call on the Super committee to pass the phase 1 enhanced plan along with their spending cuts”
This is from his own website which I see he has reoutlined and revised.
I used to read even worse.
At least he lists the phases chronologically now.
That is funny as L !!!
Oh sheesh did you get me laughin’! I almost stop, then I look and start again!
Bargaining implies that you have opposing interest sitting across the table. When public sector collective bargaining is in play, and especially when Democrats are in power, there is nobody sitting across the table representing the interest of the taxpayer.
It is always difficult to take a complex issue and turn it into a one liner. Should public employees have a vehicle in which to voice their concerns about salary, benefits, pension, and working conditions? Now the big question, should that voice be the local employees operating independently or should that voice be an international union that is in bed with the politicians?
I will have to hear more before I write Cain off.
you say - “did he really say that?
Can we believe any of the media outlets?”
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/11/14/videos_cain_self-destructs_on_libya,_unions
scroll down and listen to his own words.
Hey, Herman - you don’t ‘bargain’ with the devil and win - you don’t keep the devil in line if you bargain with him. You kick his AS - ah, tail feathers.
Yea! And we are against it ...that’s what elections are all about.
The choice was to allow a Communist takeover of federal unions or an American takeover of federal unions.
FDR let the Americans do it.
He changed his PHILOSOPHICAL mind.
You newbies imagine history started the day you first said "Hey, yo, TEA Party". It didn't. There's been a lot go on long before you figured out you had a public responsibility to yourselves, your family and your fellow citizens.
Time to catch up with reality.
Not surprised. I'm not a single-issue voter, but Cain is uninformed on too many topics. Obama will clean his clock in a debate.
>> I will have to hear more before I write Cain off. >>
I am far from suggesting anyone write him off - but I do find his position on this puzzling and not consistent with many other things he believes. I wonder if this is the result of some bad internal advice.
Bullshit!
:o)
>> I will have to hear more before I write Cain off. >>
First refuge of someone getting killed in a debate — waaah waaah I’ve been on FR longer than you — waaah. For your information, and I know this will rock your tiny little pathetic world, but there is political debate OUTSIDE of FR. Yep, there is. There really is. In fact, many of us have been involved in it for many many years. FR rocks, but it ain’t the only thing. Except in your life.
Besides, your history may be correct in some technical points but to stretch that to mean that anyone who IS AGAINST PUBLIC UNIONS IS THEREFORE IN FAVOR OF COMMUNIST INFLUENCE ON OUR GOVERNMENT is just a borderline mentally retarded conclusion. I’m sorry, it just is.
Newswflash...the communist are still in the government...never really left!!!
Once the Commies were rooted out of the government (and particularly the Communist unionizers were a bit more than "rooted out") Roosevelt issued an executive order that allowed federal employees to write to their Congressmen.
Prior to that the only one speaking for federal employees to Congressmen were union reps. Approval to write to your Senator came later. You could get in serious difficulty just writing to a state legislator.
People who want to roll things back to the days before recognition are playing with some serious fire.
soon freepers will see the light. I’ve finally made my choice & he’s by far the smartest guy in the room. I just can’t believe you’ve all dismissed him for this long.
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