Trumka – “the very rich don’t buy much”

“When you get into tax cuts for the very rich, they don’t buy much,” he [Richard Trumka – president of the AFL-CIO] said. “We need to create demand. And the best way to create demand is to put money in people’s pockets. We need to invest in jobs, because without the jobs you won’t get that demand.”

Trumka said the stimulus wasn’t as effective as it could have been because it was not big enough and invested in too many short-term projects with a 18-month horizon. He said longer-term  projects would have brought in more investment and suggested taking unused repaid money from the bank bailout to give to regional banks to alleviate the credit crunch.
Where do they find these brilliant guys to run the union?

The “very rich, they don’t buy much.” HUH?

Let me tell you, if I were rich – not just very rich and apparently if you make over $250,000/year, you are VERY rich –  I’d be finishing my back yard and I’d be buying new sofas for my family room. I’d be driving 963 miles (one way, that is) to see my 89 year old dad which means I’d also be staying in motel rooms and eating in restaurants. Gee, by making that trip back to Wyoming, I’d be helping waitresses and small business owners in 3 states and doing it both ways. But I’m not even rich – let alone very rich – so I’m staying in Arizona.

If I had money freed up and not taxed to extinction, I’d be getting someone here to prune the mesquite tree in my front yard – the one that will look like a monster tumble weed in front of my house by winter.

All those things create jobs. Money back in my pocket creates, and dare I say it – saves jobs. This man is a moron and whoever claims him as his union president it totally stupid.

Trumka has it completely backward but he’s a leftist so what else would you expect. You do not create demand by providing jobs. You create demand by letting people KEED THEIR DAMNED MONEY. Spending money creates demand which then creates jobs. Like every other leftist/marxist in this country, they simply do not get it and yet they still get air time on television.

I’m going to go right by the “stimulus wasn’t big enough”. It’s just too apparently easy that I won’t waste your time or mine.

Regional and community banks, by and large don’t want government money. There’s a “credit crunch” because everyone is scared and is holding onto their money. And small businesses are not looking to borrow because they have no idea what taxes they will be hit with.

Here’s a unique idea: How about we take that repaid money and pay down the debt? How about we stop taxing every thing that moves (and doesn’t like a tanning bed) and let people keep their money. When they have money – along with the very rich – they spend it. That creates demand and that creates jobs.That’s the only place he’s right – demand creates jobs. But with no money, there is no demand.

This Trumka guy is an absolute idiot and I would not be telling anyone that I belonged to his union.

Doctors and nurses to fill the Trojan horse with Union dues

In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions—or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care industry.

Tucked away in thousands of pages of complex new rules, regulations and mandates are special privileges and giveaways that could have devastating consequences for the health-care sector and the American economy at large.

The Senate version opens the door to implement forced unionization schemes pursued by former Govs. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois in 2005 and Gray Davis of California in 1999. Both men repaid tremendous political debts to Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union (SEIU) by reclassifying state-reimbursed in-home health-care (and child-care) contractors as state employees—and forcing them to pay union dues.

Following this playbook, the Senate bill creates a “personal care attendants workforce advisory panel” that will likely impose union affiliation to qualify for a newly created “community living assistance services and support (class)” reimbursement plan.

The current House version of ObamaCare (H.R. 3200) goes much further. Section 225(A) grants Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius tremendous discretionary authority to regulate health-care workers “under the public health insurance option.” Monopoly bargaining and compulsory union dues may quickly become a required standard resulting in potentially hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses across the country being forced into unions.

Ms. Sebelius will be taking her marching orders from the numerous union officials who are guaranteed seats on the various federal panels (such as the personal care panel mentioned above) charged with recommending health-care policies. Big Labor will play a central role in directing federal health-care policy affecting hundreds of thousands of doctors, surgeons and nurses.

Consider Kaiser Permanente, the giant, managed-care organization that has since 1997 proudly touted its labor-management “partnership” in scores of workplaces. Union officials play an essentially co-equal role in running many Kaiser facilities. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney called the Kaiser plan “a framework for what every health care delivery system should do” at a July 24 health-care forum outside of Washington, D.C.

The House bill has a $10 billion provision to bail out insolvent union health-care plans. It also creates a lucrative professional-development grant program for health-care workers that effectively blackballs nonunion medical facilities from participation. The training funds in this program must be administered jointly with a labor organization—a scenario not unlike the U.S. Department of Labor’s grants for construction apprenticeship programs, which have turned into a cash cow for construction industry union officials on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

There’s more. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has suggested that the federal government could pay for health-care reform by taxing American workers’ existing health-care benefits—but he would exempt union-negotiated health-care plans. Under Mr. Baucus’s scheme, the government could impose costs of up to $20,000 per employee on nonunion businesses already struggling to afford health care plans.

Mr. Baucus’s proposal would give union officials another tool to pressure employers into turning over their employees to Big Labor. Rather than provide the lavish benefits required by Obamacare, employers could allow a union to come in and negotiate less costly benefits than would otherwise be required. Such plans could be continuously exempted.

Americans are unlikely to support granting unions more power than they already have in the health-care field. History shows union bosses could abuse their power to shut down medical facilities with sick-outs and strikes; force doctors, nurses and in-home care providers to abandon their patients; dictate terms and conditions of employment; and impose a failed, Detroit-style management model on the entire health-care field.

ObamaCare is a Trojan Horse for more forced unionization.

Mr. Mix is president of the National Right to Work Committee.

The day they take union dues from my paycheck is the day I stop working.  But that may not  matter anyway, because if the government imposes fines “of up to $20,000 per employee on non-union” facilities, I might be out of work. The facilities I work for are family/small business owned and they cannot afford to have this happen to them.

I will not join a union. And I can’t imagine any of the doctors I know who would join one. I do know nurses, however who would. But I think in the long run, there will be a substantial exodus from the healthcare field if unionization is imposed on professionals.

It looks like, however, the government will be imposing unions on these small companies. And in order for them to survive, they will have to cave and go union/socialist.

The incredible thing about these bills in congress is that there are “agendas” and especially union agendas, hidden all over the place.  In 1100 pages, there is no way to know everything that will be imposed on us or how they can all effect us. Last count, HR3200 has, I believe 53 new – NEW – federal agencies, all related to healthcare in one form or another.

Talk about a Trojan Horse… this is the mother of all Trojan horses.

It’s a new revelation every day. And now this one.

More on this here.