Posted on 12/09/2011 1:50:44 PM PST by wac3rd
AFSCME’s International Executive Board voted this week to endorse President Barack Obama for a second term. The vote was unanimous. The board acted after a substantial majority of AFSCME members indicated in a large telephone poll that they wanted the union to endorse the president. President Obama is the only candidate for president who is fighting to put people back to work, make the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share and protect vital public services.
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich (snip) want to privatize your job.
They have targeted the modest pension you earn after a career of public service, falsely claiming that pensions are a major part of the budget problems facing communities across the country. They are dangerously wrong.
In recent months, Romney travelled to Ohio to support Gov. John Kasich’s outrageous attempt to destroy the rights of workers in the Buckeye State. Gingrich is even worse. He calls for the firing of union janitors in our schools. He would replace them with poor children working at low pay. (snip)
Make no mistake, these men are not conservatives. They are radical ideologues. We must not allow them to implement their fundamentally flawed agenda.
President Obama believes in pulling together to find real solutions to our problems. He is standing up to the top 1 percent and fighting to get America moving again.
(snip)
Will you fight to protect your job and our country’s future? Can we count on you to join this historic effort to reelect President Obama?
We know you will make a difference. Thanks for everything you are doing to protect America’s vital public services.
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(Excerpt) Read more at afscme.org ...
By inference Obama must be "conservative."
Bottom line is they simply expect the government to pick up the tab for the union officers’ salaries and perks and the pensions when the cities go broke. And there are many on the brink.
The problem is there are so many idiots who think money can simply be printed anytime you need it. And these people vote.
That much is true. Jon Corzine is an example of this, even though his current debacle is in the private sector. He's been lying so shamelessly that even Bill Clinton could take lessons from him.
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