For either one of you to say that, you'd have to be conservatives yourselves.
Hagel's got a lifetime rating of 84% with the American Conservative Union and consistently rated A and B by the Natl Taxpayers' Assoc.
He owned the company that counted the ballots in his own elections and hid his ties to it. Read all about it in Harper's Magazine.
About Chuck Hagel
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He owned the voting machines that counted the ballots in his own elections, and LIED about it. The results diverged from the exit polls by 15 points. He won by a landslide in black precincts where a Republican had NEVER won.
That's honorable to you?
About Chuck Hagel
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A man who owned the company that counted the votes in his own elections? You want to put that man in a position which will give him a leg up in the 2016 presidential election?
About Chuck Hagel
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What is it that you admire about Hagel? His deceit? His conservative credentials?
About Chuck Hagel
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What's most disturbing to me is that most commenters who like Hagel like him because he seems to be a nice guy. They like his personality. They know nothing of his background, his politics, and seem clueless that should Obama name him to be SecretaryOfDefense, he'll have a leg up on running for president. Hagel voted for the Iraq war, the PatriotAct, Bush's tax cuts for the rich, has a lifetime rating of 84 percent from the AmericanConservativeUnion and consistent A and B grades from the NationalTaxpayersUnion.
Hagel of having covered up his involvement with AmericanInformationSystemsInc., the voting machine company. He omitted mention of AIS from the required US Senate financial disclosure forms and hid his continuing investment in the McCarthyGroup. BevHarris of BlackBoxVoting writes:
In October 2002, I discovered that Hagel still had undisclosed ownership of ES&E through its parent company, the McCarthyGroup. TheMcCarthyGroup is run by Hagel's campaign finance director, MichaelMcCarthy, who's also a director of ES&S. Hagel hid his ties to ES&S by calling his investment of up to $5 million in the ES&S parent company an "excepted investment fund." This is important because senators are required to list the underlying assets for companies they invest in, unless the company is "excepted." To be "excepted," the McCarthyGroup must be publicly traded (it's not) and very widely traded (it's not)."Harris contacted VictorBaird, counsel for the SenateEthicsCommittee, to inquire into Hagel's disclosure statements. After some investigation, Baird agreed that Hagel apparently mischaracterized the nature of his investment in the McCarthyGroup. Soon afterwards, Baird resigned—Harris suggests that Baird was forced to resign—and Harris was told that he was unavailable to speak to the press. Harris says that Baird's replacement supported Hagel's characterization of the McCarthyGroup as an excepted fund.
Chuck Hagel?:
Chuck Hagel and Nebraska's Upset
"If you want to win the election, just control the machines."Chuck Hagel first ran for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska in 1996. Electronic voting machines owned by Election Systems & Software (ES&S) reported that he had won both the primaries and the general election in unprecedented victories. His 1996 victory was considered one of the biggest upsets of that election. He was the first Republican to win a Nebraska senatorial campaign in 24 years and won virtually every demographic group, including many largely black communities that had never before voted Republican.
- Charlie Matulka, Nebraska Senatorial Candidate
Yes, there is more of a history there (and what I've described may explain his extreme reactions), but let's put Losinski aside for the moment and talk about the attitude that so many seem to have in this country: "I'm going to do what I want to do, no matter how noisy or intrusive it is, and anybody that doesn't like it can svck it!'
Like people who take crying babies to movies and restaurants.
Or like your comment, about noisy children, and not being responsible for controlling the decibels your household is putting out and onto other people's property.
If parents don't teach children to respect others and control their behavior, they grow into citizens with a sense of entitlement, that they can do whatever they want irrespective of others' feelings, and be unyielding to reason. They become bullies, resorting to force and violence to settle conflicts.
Just think about it.
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You asked about organizing to my comment on right to work and I answered.
I can tell you what I've heard from workers who don't want to pay union dues and it's always about the money. 'If they don't have to pay then why should they' is their reasoning. More money in their pocket. It's kind of like if they paid for their $17 worth of groceries with a $100 bill and the cashier gave them $93 back without realizing the error, they would keep it and justify their windfall in some way. They know that whatever gains a union negotiates at contract time they will reap the benefit of, too, no matter whether they pay dues or not, so why pay dues?
This is hardly "much ado about nothing". The push for 'right to work' is to institute 'take backs' (wages and benefits and safety regulations and working conditions) along with breaking and eliminating unions and an assault on the Democratic Party and the progressive movement.
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You asked about organizing and I answered.
I can tell you what I've heard from workers who don't want to pay union dues and it's always about the money. 'If they don't have to then why should they' is their reasoning. They know that whatever gains a union negotiates at contract time they will reap the benefit of, too, no matter whether they pay dues or not, so why pay dues?
This is hardly "much ado about nothing". The push for 'right to work' is to institute 'take backs' (wages and benefits and safety regulations and working conditions) along with breaking and eliminating unions and an assault on the Democratic Party and the progressive movement.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Spending on social programs like food stamps is the problem? Anything but cutting military spending:
Then-defense secretary Robert M. Gates stopped bagging his leaves when he moved into a small Washington military enclave in 2007. His next-door neighbor was Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, who had a chef, a personal valet and — not lost on Gates — troops to tend his property.
Gates may have been the civilian leader of the world’s largest military, but his position did not come with household staff. So, he often joked, he disposed of his leaves by blowing them onto the chairman’s lawn. “I was often jealous because he had four enlisted people helping him all the time,” Gates said in response to a question after a speech Thursday. He wryly complained to his wife that “Mullen’s got guys over there who are fixing meals for him, and I’m shoving something into the microwave. And I’m his boss.”
Of the many facts that have come to light in the scandal involving former CIA director David H. Petraeus, among the most curious was that during his days as a four-star general, he was once escorted by 28 police motorcycles as he traveled from his Central Command headquarters in Tampa to socialite Jill Kelley’s mansion. Although most of his trips did not involve a presidential-size convoy, the scandal has prompted new scrutiny of the imperial trappings that come with a senior general’s lifestyle.
The commanders who lead the nation’s military services and those who oversee troops around the world enjoy an array of perquisites befitting a billionaire, including executive jets, palatial homes, drivers, security guards and aides to carry their bags, press their uniforms and track their schedules in 10-minute increments. Their food is prepared by gourmet chefs. If they want music with their dinner parties, their staff can summon a string quartet or a choir.
The elite regional commanders who preside over large swaths of the planet don’t have to settle for Gulfstream V jets. They each have a C-40, the military equivalent of a Boeing 737, some of which are configured with beds.
Did you ever see the movie Norma Rae? Unions do try to organize in those states, but are met with the brutal thuggish tactics of union-busting managers who instill abject fear in employees who are receptive to union representation. The same sort of tactics that we saw in the 2012 election, that if Obama was reelected employers would be forced to lay-off workers, is what employers threaten their workers with when unions try to organize. Even though it's against the law to fire employees for being receptive to union representation, it's regularly done and employers get away with it by trumping up complaints against union-sympathizers' work.
Why should workers not have to pay dues to a union that has gotten them higher wages and benefits? If they don't want to pay dues, are they willing to give back the gains achieved for them by unions?
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FWIW, ACA was born out of the rightwing Heritage Foundation, and comparable to Romneycare.
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For the last forty years, workers have seen their wages suppressed and kept stagnant, while their productivity soared. CEOs pressed for lower income tax rates and were successful in securing the lowest income tax rates in a century For themselves. There is rumbling that the rich need more… like raising our Medicare age from 65 to 67. Like lowering your Social Security benefits through a chained CPI. Yet two guys are secretly negotiating away your life’s earned benefits.
No deal.
Tax rates for the top income level need to go up. No cuts to our earned benefits, to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. No raising eligibility age for Medicare. No more givebacks to the folks who have been taking from us for forty years. But that’s not the end of this.
On Medicare, we want a public option for non-Medicare folks, a public option that works with Medicare to keep costs down. Allow Medicare to bargain for lower drug prices. Allow Medicare to compete to lower the costs of medical equipment and devices.
These are not my ideas. This initiative is from the AFL-CIO, a federation of unions that has been looking out for workers since before I was born.
Two guys secretly negotiating all of this in a room? Unacceptable. Tell your elected officials where you stand.
Here is a number to use to call your Senators and Representatives, to let them know what kind of a deal you expect - 888-659-9401.
First you will be asked if you want to reach your Senator or your Representative. After you choose an option you will be asked for your zip code, then your call will be directed to the right telephone number.
Right to work is deceptively named. It kills wages and destroys the middle class:
"Eight of the 10 states with the lowest overall per-capita incomes are right-to-work. And among the states with the highest rates of people without medical insurance (a sign of the quality of jobs available), seven of 10 are right-to-work. Eight of the 10 states with the highest poverty rates are right-to-work.”
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