My state is a Right to Work state.  My employer offers health insurance and benefits that can be purchased BY ME if I want them.  I do not have to participate in the health insurance plan, nor the retirement plan, if I don’t want to.  But if I chose to, I pay a portion of the monthly premium and my employer supplements the rest.

I am proud of the fact that I am not sucking on the government teat as a union member.  Union members making over $87,000 to $100,000 a year in salary and benefits crying a river about going broke by having to pay their fair share are nothing more than spoiled rotten brats who need to sit in the corner on a time out.

Reality bites folks.

This nation is broke (and getting more so as long as Obama and his Union thugs are in power).

We have to start tightening our belts and living within our means.

If that means union babies have to start *gasp* paying their way like the private sector has to – so be it.

Unions *force* people to pay dues.   Because of liberal governors, a lot of States collect union dues from employee checks and send to the union.  The public employee has no control over what the union then does with the money.  What the union fears the most is losing membership – forced membership – and money.   Its all about the money people.  Has nothing to do with employee rights.  You can follow them down that path of lies all you want, but you are no more than brainless drones in my opinion.

Once the unions are destroyed in this country, we can start to move forward and fix it.   President Obama is a union supporter because he knows through the unions, the progressives have power.  Well, what the progressives want is now clearly out in the open and like sunlight to a vampire, it’s burning the hell out of them.

And anything you say will not convince me otherwise.  As long as union members protesting are not acting civilly like their leader Obama told them to, your voice and opinion will be ignored.

Seriously.  You have to be crazy to put up with the harassment and bullshit.

Especially if you are a Republican …

Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin was elected to that state’s highest office by the people.   He ran on a platform of cutting the state budget and turning around the dismal state.

So the first thing he wants to do is cut the legs of the unions out from under them.  (Yup, I agree with Obama on something) Pure and simple, the unions are killing the states with demand after demand and producing nothing.

Example:  If the teacher unions were for “the kids“, they wouldn’t have called out sick for the last three days, forcing the schools to close.  This simply proves to the people on the outside that unions are NOT for the kids, but for themselves and how much they can suck the tax payer dry for.

Those of us who work in the private sector have to contribute to a portion of our health insurance premium and depending on the type of pension offered, can contribute a portion to that too.  That’s how its been since I started working eons ago.  I’ve always contributed to a portion of the premium, if not all in some cases, and had no problem with it. 

Tell me why I should pay a portion and some lazy union thug forces me to pay for his too?  They are wanting to spread the wealth, but its ass backwards really. Since unions tend to make more money than the private sector, they are robbing the poor to pay for the rich.  It’s that bottom up thing the liberals seem to think works.

Unions need to be done away with.   The unions early beginnings helped make for better working conditions and benefits, so we really have no use for them any more.   They just want to exploit “the worker” to line their pockets with tax payer money.

By the way, I am not a “worker” (that’s an old style soviet title used by the Nazi’s).  I am a free American who is employed by a company that believes in what I have to offer to them.  I am paid very well for what I do, including benefits.  Our company does not abuse us in any way shape or form and if we have a grievance, we have avenues to walk them through.  We have no need for a union because our boss and board treat us fairly – as do 99.99% of the companies in this country.

I hope Governor Walker succeeds and the unions start losing their power all over this country.  I stand with Wisconsin.

What I get from the left getting their panties in a snit about the reading of The Constitution, the founding documents for this great nation, is:

They don’t want to find out where they’ve been wrong.

They do not like the fact it does not say “The Government will control everything while they suck your wallets dry to do so.”

They do not like “We The People”.

The most vile of the left are showing their true colors in blazing brilliance.  Although, their mental strength is really dull through it all.

Joy Behar:  “Do you think this Constitution-loving is getting out of hand?”

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.): Told The Washington Post that Republicans were peddling “propaganda” and that today’s act amounted to a “ritualistic reading.” 

If the left’s reaction to the document this country is to be governed by does not wake you up to what is going on behind the closed doors in Washington – the fundamental change in this country – then please buy a one-way ticket to China.

We like our Constitution and freedoms it provides.

The SGM and I just shook our heads at the news broadcast on Fox News this am about the dunce with a gun taking on the Panama City, Florida school board.  Damn good thing the SGM hadn’t taught this guy to shoot, because the out come would have been a lot different.

A gunman who fired point-blank at school board members before fatally shooting himself had for much of the meeting sat with the rest of the audience, listening to routine business.

As the board was in the midst of a discussion yesterday, Clay A. Duke walked to the front of the room, spray painted a red “V” with a circle around it on the white wall, then turned and waved a handgun. He calmly ordered everyone to “hit the road” except the men on the board sitting behind a long beige desk. (Source)

Video from the NPR News Blog

From what we were able to learn, Mr. Duke blamed all his troubles on the evil rich. Now isn’t that special?  Most of the news reports I’m finding this morning are indicating Mr. Duke committed this horror because his wife was fired from the school …. not too many of the liberal outlets are reporting his statement about the rich causing all his ills. 

CNN, however, is reporting on Mr. Duke’s Facebook page and this is where the statements about the rich are found. 

A biography on Duke’s Facebook page reads: “My Testament: Some people (the government sponsored media) will say I was evil, a monster (V)… no… I was just born poor in a country where the Wealthy manipulate, use, abuse, and economically enslave 95% of the population. Rich Republicans, Rich Democrats… same-same… rich… they take turns fleecing us… our few dollars… pyramiding the wealth for themselves. The 95%… the us, in US of A, are the neo slaves of the Global South. Our Masters, the Wealthy, do, as they like to us…”   (Highlighting is mine)

While Congress is arguing that the rich must be taxed into oblivion, this dumb ass uses the excuse that he’s poor to terrorize people and kill himself.

Suicide is the coward’s way out PERIOD.

People who hate the rich are those not willing to work hard and obtain what they need/want in life. 

Life is NOT fair – get over it. 

The pre-screening is simply an investigation for those individuals who have prosthetic devices, or like my husband, have shrapnel in their bodies.

It could go something like this:

The SGM and I decide to fly for whatever reason.  He goes to the doctor and receives a certified document stating due to his military service and his time in Afghanistan, he received sharpnel from an IED and there are metal pieces here, here and here in his body.   We then take this document, probably with x-rays, to a local TSA office where he is investigated and its documented about his issues.  Then when we reach the TSA mugging area, his records in the system will show the pre-screening and issues.   There would then be no need for him to be bag-checked physically by a TSA sex-offender to get on the plane.

I highly doubt the new TSA guidelines are to protect the public.  The Obama administration is trying to desensitize us into being treated like the cattle they believe we are so we can become accustom to being treated a such.

This assault on US Citizens most stop now.

Now isn’t that special?
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(NewsCore) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s six-night visit to NYC included a secret sit-down with militant minister Louis Farrakhan, the New York Post reported Sunday.

The president shared a hush-hush meal with Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party Tuesday at the Warwick Hotel on West 54th Street.

The meeting took place during Ahmadinejad’s stay in NYC to address the U.N. General Assembly. He met Farrakhan, the fiery 77-year-old leader of The Nation of Islam, in the Warwick Hotel’s banquet hall.

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Yes, Obama’s Pastor give Farrakhan a “Living Legend” award back in March 2010 -
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Bill O’Reilly reported on this March 4th, 2010:  An unbelievable show this Friday night in Chicago. Together on one stage: Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright and radical priest Michael Pfleger.

They will all be receiving an award called “Living Legends,” and you can see it as a VIP if you have a hundred bucks.

The spectacle is being driven by Rev. Wright, who is actually giving himself the “Living Legend” award, as well as the other two guys. There’s no third party involved.

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Forget six-degrees to Kevin Bacon, we are talking three degrees to a terrorist leader!

Ahmadinejad to Farrakhan to Wright to Obama!

… elections have consequences …

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Muslim boys urinated on Bible - TWO Muslim students have been expelled from an Islamic school in Melbourne for urinating and spitting on a Bible and setting it on fire.

The explosive incident has forced the East Preston Islamic College to call in a senior imam to tell its 650 Muslim students that the Bible and Christianity must be respected.

Anxious teachers at the school have also petitioned principal Shaheem Doutie, expressing “grave concern” about an “inculcation of hatred and radical attitudes towards non-Muslims” at the school, including towards non-Muslim teachers.

Yes, the imam did the right thing by expelling the students. But no where in the story do you find the leaders of the Christian religion sending out a fatwa against the students – demanding their deaths.

No, Christianity today does not kill people who do not agree with them.

But offend the Muslim religion and boy howdy your ass is on the chopping block – marked for death.

Gunman kills Dutch film directorDutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who made a controversial film about Islamic culture, has been stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam, Dutch police say.

Police arrested a man in a nearby park after an exchange of gunfire. The man, aged 26, had joint Dutch and Moroccan nationality, they said.

Van Gogh, 47, had received death threats after his film Submission was shown on Dutch TV.

In September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI delivered an address at Regensburg University, his alma mater. He quoted Manuel Paleologos II, the 14th century Byzantine emperor, who had said: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”  This speech set the Muslim world on fire, and the Religion of Peace threatened to kill all Chrisitans because of Pope Benedict’s speech.

I do not agree with this church in Flordia burning any religion’s books, but considering Christianity is allowed to be desecrated and abused and shoved aside by the liberals in the United States and the Religion of Peace without any outcry at all – I can see where they may be getting sick and tired of having to turn the other cheek, while death threats are made against them.

God is the only one allowed to judge here folks.

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Boo fracking Hoo

If I ran a business where gang members came in and shot up the place, do you think I’d want them, or their ilk darkening my doors ever again?   Banks are not “reguired” to provide anyone a checking or savings account.  There are no laws that dictate they have to continue serving any customer, or start serving any customer. 

Hasan is accused of killing these banks’ customers or future customers, or their family members and you want them to then take this man’s money on deposit while he sits in a jail cell, fed three times a day by local tax payers?

Hasan’s attorney is about as brillant as a rock ….
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John Galligan is Hasan’s attorney. He has tried to open accounts at other local banks but  has had no luck. Fort Hood National Bank declined as well.

“According to their (Ft Hood National Bank) motto, it’s serving those who serve so I expected that they wouldn’t be resistant,” Galligan says.

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Maybe because Hasan didn’t really “serve” but murdered fellow soldiers instead?  So since this waste of good skin sits in a tax payer provided jail cell,  just tell me how he’s “serving” Mr. Galligan?   uhmmm???  (crickets)
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The bank told him they’re waiting for direction from the Army.

“It’s another example of the toxic, discriminatory atmosphere that surrounds Major Hasan,” he adds.

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Here we go.  Typical liberal bullshit.  RACIST!!! RACIST!!! RACIST!!!!   Shuts down your whole argument there Mr. Galligan.   Get your law license from Cracker Jack did you?

You, Mr. Galligan, are an idiot.  Go find a bottle and a diaper and sit in the corner.  Because sir, you are no man.  You fit perfectly with Mr. Hasan.  Mr. Hasan has a weak mind that he allowed to be twisted by a radical muslim into believing that nobody loved him, everybody hated him and instead of just crawling off and eating worms, he took up arms AGAINST HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS!!! 

You Mr. Galligan are a total waste of good skin and it sickens me that you are even breathing the same air.

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That is a LIE.

The health care bill attacks those of us with insurance already and increases fees and expenditures to the point it will eventually force us off that insurance and onto Medicare (government health care and control).  I will fight to the bitter end to stay on private insurance.  Below is a copy of the Revenue Offset Provision in the Obama-care bill that will increase fees for the already insured to try and force us out of paying for our own coverage.   This is how the socialists will take over if not stopped.

Obama Care Bill – Revenue Offset Provision, or: Screw the Employee to raise money Provision

Title IX: Revenue Provisions – Subtitle A: Revenue Offset Provisions – (Sec. 9001, as modified by section 10901) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax of 40% of the excess benefit from certain high cost employer-sponsored health coverage. Deems any amount which exceeds payment of $8,500 for an employee self-only coverage plan and $23,000 for employees with other than self-only coverage (family plans) as an excess benefit. Increases such amounts for certain retirees and employees who are engaged in high-risk professions (e.g., law enforcement officers, emergency medical first responders, or longshore workers). Imposes a penalty on employers and coverage providers for failure to calculate the proper amount of an excess benefit.

(Sec. 9002) Requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer-sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employee’s gross income (excluding the value of contributions to flexible spending arrangements).

No longer will health care insurance be considered a benefit as it will now be included as part of your salary.

(Sec. 9003) Restricts payments from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending arrangements for medications to prescription drugs or insulin.

So those of us that use Insulin are going to get screwed for needing that medication?

(Sec. 9004) Increases to 20% the penalty for distributions from a health savings account or Archer medical savings account not used for qualified medical expenses.

Who is going to get that 20%? You guessed – the government. Shove that shiv in the employee’s back!

(Sec. 9005, as modified by section 10902) Limits annual salary reduction contributions by an employee to a health flexible spending arrangement under a cafeteria plan to $2,500. Allows an annual inflation adjustment to such amount after 2011.

(Sec. 9006) Expands reporting requirements for payments of $600 or more to corporations (other than tax-exempt corporations).

(Sec. 9007, as modified by section 10903) Requires tax-exempt charitable hospitals to: (1) conduct a community health needs assessment every two years; (2) adopt a written financial assistance policy for patients who require financial assistance for hospital care; and (3) refrain from taking extraordinary collection actions against a patient until the hospital has made reasonable efforts to determine whether the patient is eligible for financial assistance. Imposes a penalty tax on hospitals who fail to comply with the requirements of this Act.

WTF? What if the community refuses to participate in your assessment Obama? Are you going to punish the hospital like you threaten later on in this section? So people are going to be allowed to go to the hospital but not have to pay if they can’t? I thought that’s what this damn bill was suppose to be for!

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to Congress on information with respect to private tax-exempt, taxable, and government-owned hospitals regarding levels of charity care provided, bad debt expenses, unreimbursed costs, and costs for community benefit activities.

(Sec. 9008) Imposes an annual fee on the branded prescription drug sales exceeding $5 million of manufacturers and importers of such drugs beginning in 2010. Requires the HHS, VA, and DOD Secretaries to report to the Secretary of the Treasury on the total branded prescription drug sales within government programs within their departments.

Screwing the manufacturer of the medications that keep us alive. Where do you think said manufacturers are going to shuffle the costs off to for these fines/fees? Yup – to you and me.

(Sec. 9009, as modified by section 10904) Imposes an annual fee on the gross sales receipts exceeding $5 million of manufacturers and importers of certain medical devices beginning in 2011.

(Sec. 9010, as modified by section 10905) Imposes on any entity that provides health insurance for any United States health risk an annual fee beginning in 2011. Defines “United States health risk” as the health risk of an individual who is a U.S. citizen or resident or is located in the United States with respect to the period the individual is so located. Exempts entities whose net premiums written are not more than $25 million. Requires all entities subject to such fee to report to the Secretary of the Treasury on their net written premiums and imposes a penalty for failure to report.

(Sec. 9011) Requires the VA Secretary to study and report to Congress by December 31, 2012, on the effect of fees assessed by this Act on the cost of medical care provided to veterans and on veterans’ access to medical devices and branded prescription drugs.

We’re going to screw the Veteran, then do a tax-payer paid for study to see how badly this screwing effects the protectors of our country.

(Sec. 9012) Eliminates the tax deduction for expenses for determining the subsidy for employers who maintain prescription drug plans for Medicare Part D eligible retirees.

(Sec. 9013) Increases the adjusted gross income threshold for claiming the itemized deduction for medical expenses from 7.5% to 10% beginning after 2012. Retains the 7.5% threshold through 2016 for individual taxpayers who have attained age 65 before the close of an applicable taxable year.

(Sec. 9014) Imposes a limitation after December 31, 2012, of $500,000 on the deductibility of remuneration paid to officers, directors, employees, and service providers of health insurance issuers who derive at least 25% of their gross premiums from providing health insurance coverage that meets the minimum essential coverage requirements established by this Act.

(Sec. 9015, as modified by section 10906) Increases after December 31, 2012, the hospital insurance tax rate by .9% for individual taxpayers earning over $200,000 ($250,000 for married couples filing joint tax returns).

Here is the “rich” tax again on those making $250,000 a year …

(Sec. 9016) Requires Blue Cross or Blue Shield organizations or other nonprofit organizations that provide health insurance to reimburse at least 85% of the cost of clinical services provided to their enrollees to be eligible for special tax benefits currently provided to such organizations.

…remember in November…

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