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		<title>By: obamah8er</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5384958</link>
		<dc:creator>obamah8er</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Any liberal economists out there that can prove to me how it makes economic sense to pay $5000 more for a hybrid than a regular vehicle when gas is $1.60/gal ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any liberal economists out there that can prove to me how it makes economic sense to pay $5000 more for a hybrid than a regular vehicle when gas is $1.60/gal ?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5384958', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: obamah8er</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5384950</link>
		<dc:creator>obamah8er</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder if any of you Prius drivers out there realize that it takes 8 gallons of oil to manufacture a car tire... do you realize that plastics are made from oil?? If you really want to be green, throw out everything that you own made from plastic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder if any of you Prius drivers out there realize that it takes 8 gallons of oil to manufacture a car tire&#8230; do you realize that plastics are made from oil?? If you really want to be green, throw out everything that you own made from plastic.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5384950', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ID_Neon</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5381598</link>
		<dc:creator>ID_Neon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ugh why do you idiots always say &quot;tax the Oil industry&quot;.

The Oil Industry is more highly taxed than ANYONE!

The Oil industry on average has only 9% profit margin.  That&#039;s worse than a McDonalds!

You fools.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ugh why do you idiots always say &#8220;tax the Oil industry&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Oil Industry is more highly taxed than ANYONE!</p>
<p>The Oil industry on average has only 9% profit margin.  That&#8217;s worse than a McDonalds!</p>
<p>You fools.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381598', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: oncedarkness</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5381534</link>
		<dc:creator>oncedarkness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Homosexuality NOT hardwired!!&lt;/strong&gt;
I know this is off the subject but ....... Breaking News.......
April 4, 2007 - Dr. Francis S. Collins, one of the world&#039;s leading scientists who works at the cutting edge of DNA, concluded that &quot;there is an inescapable component of heritability to many human behavioral traits. For virtually none of them is heredity ever close to predictive.&quot;
Regarding the contributions of genetics to areas such as homosexuality, Dr. Collins concluded, &quot;Yes, we have all been dealt a particular set of cards, and the cards will eventually be revealed. But how we play the hand is up to us.&quot;


Why doesn&#039;t  J&lt;em&gt;on Stewart&lt;/em&gt; know this?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Homosexuality NOT hardwired!!</strong><br />
I know this is off the subject but &#8230;&#8230;. Breaking News&#8230;&#8230;.<br />
April 4, 2007 &#8211; Dr. Francis S. Collins, one of the world&#8217;s leading scientists who works at the cutting edge of DNA, concluded that &#8220;there is an inescapable component of heritability to many human behavioral traits. For virtually none of them is heredity ever close to predictive.&#8221;<br />
Regarding the contributions of genetics to areas such as homosexuality, Dr. Collins concluded, &#8220;Yes, we have all been dealt a particular set of cards, and the cards will eventually be revealed. But how we play the hand is up to us.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why doesn&#8217;t  J<em>on Stewart</em> know this?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381534', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Anthony Look</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5381456</link>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Look</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I want the GOP to ask the oil industry which rolled in money the past few years to negotiate in good faith a tax on their profits to benefit the ailing economy. 
This is the face of the GOP, anti American worker, anti American industry; they are defending the foreign auto industries interests.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I want the GOP to ask the oil industry which rolled in money the past few years to negotiate in good faith a tax on their profits to benefit the ailing economy.<br />
This is the face of the GOP, anti American worker, anti American industry; they are defending the foreign auto industries interests.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381456', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Alecto</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5380174</link>
		<dc:creator>Alecto</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh ID, do you even have half a brain?

The liberal bastion make up approximately 60+ % of the populace. The restoogikkkans are painting themselves into a corner it and it couldn&#039;t happen to a more stupid bunch of cunts. Good riddance to extremely bad rubbish. 

Here is the answer Tank, Id, and all the other hangerons in the Repukkkikan nightmare. Obama will come in and give a whopping $5 Billion LOAN to GM, in exchange for sale of the company TO THE WORKERS. This will pay off the scumsucking investors (of which there is only about 3 billion worth) and leave 2 Bill to retool and start producing the car of the future. ALong with massive gov support research (just like they do in those SC and Tenn BMW and Toyota plants) and THEN we will see the south DIE like it should have been. BURNED TO THE GROUND all the way to the ATLANTIC. 
You pussies have been whining since Sherman kicked your ass, and you won&#039;t stop until we totally obliterate the OLD SOUTH. 

Have fun REPUKKKIGAN dickheads, keep warm in politcal Siberia with Palin.  Yeah wrap your hopes around that piece of work.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh ID, do you even have half a brain?</p>
<p>The liberal bastion make up approximately 60+ % of the populace. The restoogikkkans are painting themselves into a corner it and it couldn&#8217;t happen to a more stupid bunch of cunts. Good riddance to extremely bad rubbish. </p>
<p>Here is the answer Tank, Id, and all the other hangerons in the Repukkkikan nightmare. Obama will come in and give a whopping $5 Billion LOAN to GM, in exchange for sale of the company TO THE WORKERS. This will pay off the scumsucking investors (of which there is only about 3 billion worth) and leave 2 Bill to retool and start producing the car of the future. ALong with massive gov support research (just like they do in those SC and Tenn BMW and Toyota plants) and THEN we will see the south DIE like it should have been. BURNED TO THE GROUND all the way to the ATLANTIC.<br />
You pussies have been whining since Sherman kicked your ass, and you won&#8217;t stop until we totally obliterate the OLD SOUTH. </p>
<p>Have fun REPUKKKIGAN dickheads, keep warm in politcal Siberia with Palin.  Yeah wrap your hopes around that piece of work.</p>
<p>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5380174', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ID_Neon</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5380148</link>
		<dc:creator>ID_Neon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s so funny, because in 4 years the Republican Party will be stronger than ever.  You are mistaken; the Republicans aren&#039;t destroying the US....they&#039;re destroying the North-East.  That bastion of liberal hell.  Rather, they&#039;re letting it die.  California, also a liberal hell, is also sinking faster than the tide is rising.  The Republicans are just letting it happen.

The South is least effected by the recession, so is most of the West, we&#039;re doing just fine.

As the Democrats take the reigns of a sinking ship (Liberal North-East) and find themselves inable to save it with Federal Funds...as it sinks.

So does the Democratic Party.

I&#039;m pretty sure all things considered Obama will be the last significant Democratic President; the North East is going to become a regional partisan if any sort of coherent political entity period.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s so funny, because in 4 years the Republican Party will be stronger than ever.  You are mistaken; the Republicans aren&#8217;t destroying the US&#8230;.they&#8217;re destroying the North-East.  That bastion of liberal hell.  Rather, they&#8217;re letting it die.  California, also a liberal hell, is also sinking faster than the tide is rising.  The Republicans are just letting it happen.</p>
<p>The South is least effected by the recession, so is most of the West, we&#8217;re doing just fine.</p>
<p>As the Democrats take the reigns of a sinking ship (Liberal North-East) and find themselves inable to save it with Federal Funds&#8230;as it sinks.</p>
<p>So does the Democratic Party.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure all things considered Obama will be the last significant Democratic President; the North East is going to become a regional partisan if any sort of coherent political entity period.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5380148', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5379868</link>
		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>another thing i heard, from ed schultz… he wondered if maybe bush had told the &quot;plantation caucus&quot;, ‘ok - you guys do your thing, vote how you think you should for your folks, for your re-election, i’ll get it covered with the tarp funds.’

in other words, a set up… more politics of manipulation…
or something like that…

and, a caller to randi had a most logical scenario… that the righties were planning on the economic collapse, even directing it - however, it all fell apart too soon…

it was supposed to happen after january… “the obama depression”…

sounds perfectly plausible to me…</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>another thing i heard, from ed schultz… he wondered if maybe bush had told the &#8220;plantation caucus&#8221;, ‘ok &#8211; you guys do your thing, vote how you think you should for your folks, for your re-election, i’ll get it covered with the tarp funds.’</p>
<p>in other words, a set up… more politics of manipulation…<br />
or something like that…</p>
<p>and, a caller to randi had a most logical scenario… that the righties were planning on the economic collapse, even directing it &#8211; however, it all fell apart too soon…</p>
<p>it was supposed to happen after january… “the obama depression”…</p>
<p>sounds perfectly plausible to me…<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379868', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jackie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5379772</link>
		<dc:creator>Jackie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Behind the smoke and mirrors and lies was this:

Pay Raise For Judges Tucked Into Auto Bailout Plan

Yes no one said a thing about this little ticket. Like G-Rod Law Makers are still playing old school politics as the American people suffer. One would think the Senators of Ohio/Michigan would fight for their voters but they decided to go for the kick back money. Bush needs a legacy so he&#039;ll ride in on his white horse and save the day with our money. Even with two more Banks closing one in Texas and one in Georgia that brings the total to 25. Where&#039;s a President when you need one?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Behind the smoke and mirrors and lies was this:</p>
<p>Pay Raise For Judges Tucked Into Auto Bailout Plan</p>
<p>Yes no one said a thing about this little ticket. Like G-Rod Law Makers are still playing old school politics as the American people suffer. One would think the Senators of Ohio/Michigan would fight for their voters but they decided to go for the kick back money. Bush needs a legacy so he&#8217;ll ride in on his white horse and save the day with our money. Even with two more Banks closing one in Texas and one in Georgia that brings the total to 25. Where&#8217;s a President when you need one?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379772', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5379764</link>
		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i learned this earlier, on rachel i think...
want to get it down before i forget... again...

that the union agreed to the wage cuts provided the auto suits would agree to cuts and oversight of their salaries...

nope. can&#039;t do that.

but blame the union for not coming up with &quot;a date&quot; instead.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i learned this earlier, on rachel i think&#8230;<br />
want to get it down before i forget&#8230; again&#8230;</p>
<p>that the union agreed to the wage cuts provided the auto suits would agree to cuts and oversight of their salaries&#8230;</p>
<p>nope. can&#8217;t do that.</p>
<p>but blame the union for not coming up with &#8220;a date&#8221; instead.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379764', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shawnfassett</title>
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		<dc:creator>shawnfassett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe its time for the blue states to stop bailing out those red states - http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/11/wolcott200611</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe its time for the blue states to stop bailing out those red states &#8211; <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/11/wolcott200611" rel="nofollow">http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/11/wolcott200611</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379634', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Robt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So the Failed NON UNION Wall Street gets no questions asked bail out to continue extreme salaries and bonus.  Not to mention buying the private jets from the auto makers.
 $350 billion and more for Wall Street and to no avail.
 The auto makers ask for a $30 billion LOAN and this is unacceptable because of UNIONS?

 Does anyone consider the Wall Street bailout was given that the wealthy that invested could get their money back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the Failed NON UNION Wall Street gets no questions asked bail out to continue extreme salaries and bonus.  Not to mention buying the private jets from the auto makers.<br />
 $350 billion and more for Wall Street and to no avail.<br />
 The auto makers ask for a $30 billion LOAN and this is unacceptable because of UNIONS?</p>
<p> Does anyone consider the Wall Street bailout was given that the wealthy that invested could get their money back.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379596', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Cats r Flyfishn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cats r Flyfishn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The workers at Toyota and all the other foreign car companies in the South should join the UAW Union.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The workers at Toyota and all the other foreign car companies in the South should join the UAW Union.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379482', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: The Republic of Stupidity</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/blame-unions-watch/comment-page-3/#comment-5379256</link>
		<dc:creator>The Republic of Stupidity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fred Says:

How do you think non-union companies compete with union companies……they pay close to but a little less than union companies…..it’s just a fact.
______________

Kinda... amazing, innit?  Once everyone in this country is reduced to KMart level of wages, who&#039;s ever going to buy a new car, a washing machine, a computer...  anything above the level of the junk that, well, KMart specializes in selling?

Coulda sworn trickle-down economics had been debunked for the nonsense that it was.  Didn&#039;t Botch&#039;s own father call it voodoo economics?  All NAFTA&#039;s really done is depressed wages across all borders.  The greedy stooges that sit on corporate boards might get raging chubbies from seeing fractions of pennies dancing around on their companies&#039; balance sheets, but it ain&#039;t been so good for the rest of us, huh?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fred Says:</p>
<p>How do you think non-union companies compete with union companies……they pay close to but a little less than union companies…..it’s just a fact.<br />
______________</p>
<p>Kinda&#8230; amazing, innit?  Once everyone in this country is reduced to KMart level of wages, who&#8217;s ever going to buy a new car, a washing machine, a computer&#8230;  anything above the level of the junk that, well, KMart specializes in selling?</p>
<p>Coulda sworn trickle-down economics had been debunked for the nonsense that it was.  Didn&#8217;t Botch&#8217;s own father call it voodoo economics?  All NAFTA&#8217;s really done is depressed wages across all borders.  The greedy stooges that sit on corporate boards might get raging chubbies from seeing fractions of pennies dancing around on their companies&#8217; balance sheets, but it ain&#8217;t been so good for the rest of us, huh?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379256', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bullsmith</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bullsmith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Replicans are determined to destroy the country. I assume so they can remake it in their image, but how everyone is supposed to make themselves rich white males is beyond me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Replicans are determined to destroy the country. I assume so they can remake it in their image, but how everyone is supposed to make themselves rich white males is beyond me.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379188', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: livelongandprosper</title>
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		<dc:creator>livelongandprosper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;it’s just a fact.&lt;/em&gt;

That scares the shit out of GOP and their trolls.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>it’s just a fact.</em></p>
<p>That scares the shit out of GOP and their trolls.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379168', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Fan of Man Says: 
Fred Says: Just how long do you think those regulations and safety protections would be in place without unions?

i guess about as long as they did in other industries that don’t have unions that need bailing out too.&lt;/blockquote&gt;


You don&#039;t seem to understand that the non-union wages are based on the union wages.  If the union disappears, all wages go down.  

How do you think non-union companies compete with union companies......they pay close to but a little less than union companies.....it&#039;s just a fact.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Fan of Man Says:<br />
Fred Says: Just how long do you think those regulations and safety protections would be in place without unions?</p>
<p>i guess about as long as they did in other industries that don’t have unions that need bailing out too.</p></blockquote>
<p>You don&#8217;t seem to understand that the non-union wages are based on the union wages.  If the union disappears, all wages go down.  </p>
<p>How do you think non-union companies compete with union companies&#8230;&#8230;they pay close to but a little less than union companies&#8230;..it&#8217;s just a fact.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379156', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: belac</title>
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		<dc:creator>belac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Whatever the republicans are offering which gets the latter outcome is the deal. Call it union busting or a ham sandwich, that is still the deal. If you plead for a rescue, get offered one and somehow manage to negotiate yourself out of getting rescued, you’re an idiot who’s sealed your own fate.&lt;/em&gt;

No the Republicans are hiding from responsibility once again-whatever concessions the Union offered wouldn&#039;t have made a difference here because the R&#039;s know that W will pony up the cash out of the TARP funds to keep the Big Three at least solvent through Jan. 20 and then they can blame the &#039;bailout&#039; deal on Bush (who they&#039;ve thrown under the bus anyway) Obama and the Demoratic Congress... they also think they see a chance to get rid of unions altogether but by refusing to compromise early they are helping to assure that the USA is going to get single-payer healthcare and CEO salary caps... that&#039;s the deal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Whatever the republicans are offering which gets the latter outcome is the deal. Call it union busting or a ham sandwich, that is still the deal. If you plead for a rescue, get offered one and somehow manage to negotiate yourself out of getting rescued, you’re an idiot who’s sealed your own fate.</em></p>
<p>No the Republicans are hiding from responsibility once again-whatever concessions the Union offered wouldn&#8217;t have made a difference here because the R&#8217;s know that W will pony up the cash out of the TARP funds to keep the Big Three at least solvent through Jan. 20 and then they can blame the &#8216;bailout&#8217; deal on Bush (who they&#8217;ve thrown under the bus anyway) Obama and the Demoratic Congress&#8230; they also think they see a chance to get rid of unions altogether but by refusing to compromise early they are helping to assure that the USA is going to get single-payer healthcare and CEO salary caps&#8230; that&#8217;s the deal.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379146', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fan of Man</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fan of Man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Fred Says: Just how long do you think those regulations and safety protections would be in place without unions?&lt;/em&gt;

i guess about as long as they did in other industries that don&#039;t have unions that need bailing out too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Fred Says: Just how long do you think those regulations and safety protections would be in place without unions?</em></p>
<p>i guess about as long as they did in other industries that don&#8217;t have unions that need bailing out too.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379132', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LushInterior Says: 

You ignorant lying piece of garbage go back to your bridge. The adults are tired of your snivelling stupidity. You are an ignorant troll without the self respect to be ashamed of your ignorance and self humiliation. Do the world a favor and disappear.</description>
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<p>You ignorant lying piece of garbage go back to your bridge. The adults are tired of your snivelling stupidity. You are an ignorant troll without the self respect to be ashamed of your ignorance and self humiliation. Do the world a favor and disappear.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5379126', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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