Limbaugh: Public-sector union employees are "freeloaders" and "leftist, socialist, neo-communist"
April 22, 2010 2:51 pm ET
From the April 22 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Let's call these Pinkos out!!1
Especially these guys and these guys!
People like Blimpaugh, Becky, O'Reilly, etc, are real tough guys when there is nobody standing there ready to beat them over the head when they stand up and tell a lie with a straight face. They aren't brave enough to hold to their convictions (supposed convictions anyway) when they're sick or hurt or want some new luxury. Rather like Nancy Reagan all of a sudden didn't hate stem-cell research so much, or when Dick Cheney didn't disown his lesbian daughter and supported her having a child and starting a family.
It's all about greed and hypocrisy. That makes it more astounding than ever that people actually listen to this crackpot and the others like him. It's not like the thinking is some deep logical conundrum, or the evidence showing that they're filthy greedmongers is difficult to find. Especially in today's world, where information on virtually everybody is just a couple of websearches away (usually anyway).
Anyone who disagrees with me is greedy. It works both ways.
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I also told you today that I really don't have too many "liberals" that I can say I respect, either, I don't really do a political ideology check to see who I respect. I also told you today that I respect Lindsey Graham for raising his younger sister when their parents died when he was 21 and for his military service. I also told you that I find the man, probably a lot like you, who is currently trying to "out" Graham as a gay man, despicable.
Okay, squawks. Everybody knows I've answered your question NUMEROUS times . . . answer mine. You're the one that told me to "read the Federalist Papers," I think it only common courtesy that you answer my questions.
Graham needs to go and take those two dingbats from Maine with him.
I don't think that's too wrong.
They had no idea that the conservative members of Congress who had been speaking at their rally were the main reason the problem existed because they refused to approve the funds to improve DC's transportation system. Why rail against paying taxes and "big" government, and then turn around and demand that the governmrnt does what you've just stated that you don't want it to do? No wonder so many on the right are so confused. Their leaders tell them the government is bad, and then they sit in Congress and thwart all attempts the government makes to do its' job in an effective manner.
I wouldn't follow them to look at the nearest piece of gum stuck to a sidewalk.
Then get back to us.
/sarcasm
I just heard the same thing from some teabaggers, wanting their taxes back...I also heard the same thing from some Wall Street bankers this morning.
Yeah, didn't think so.
Maybe it was in regards to, not getting paid diddly squat for doing a really hard and tough job? Maybe her pay and benefits got cut?
What was the context? What was the protest in regards to? I highly doubt it was someone just looking for a handout, although, that would play into your little fantasy land.
It's really not a good idea to post things without thinking about them in a rational way beforehand. There's more than one answer/solution to a problem in many instances.
Money for nothing, and Dominican Republic boys for free....
[apologies to Dire Straits]
Rush the police say you get no service since you do not want to pay them, how does that work for you. When are you going to move out of the country like you promised use you would do. If you don't like leave, see that works both ways too.
Companies that are not unionized (i.e. Walmart) have higher profit margins than those that are. If the company has higher margins, they can employ more people.
Unions are greedy and selfish. They may have had their purpose at the turn of the 19th century, but they are obsolete and no longer needed.
I gotta give it up. It takes balls to defend poor WalMart.
WalMart employees don't make a living wage, get no benefits, have dead peasants insurance taken out on them and leave with ZERO real world skills or experience.
That may be how you see this country working in the future, but the rest of us remember Rush's "good ol days" back when the unions built America.
In your opinion, what purpose did unions serve at the turn of the 19th Century that they did not serve, say, toward the middle (latter Industrial Revolution), the late 19th Century (Gilded Age), the earlier portions of the 20th or today? What factor gave them purpose in 1801 and what circumstances made them no longer so in 1850, 1888 or 1920? Please be specific.
Health and safety conditions were deplorable at the turn of the century. Working in a factory 110 years ago involved risking your life. Unions valiantly campaigned for safety standards.
However, we have laws against child labor and there are many laws and regulations that require workplace safety. Since we have laws in effect which protect against these abues, unions are not needed to defend agaisnt them.
Like I said they had their purpuse 110 years ago, but they are not needed today.
If soemone does not like working at WalMart they are free to find another job. WalMart is abusing nobody. Employees voluntarily agree to the conditions of employment that WalMart mandates. Walmart is not forcing children to work 16 hour days, and WalMart does not have an unsafe workplace environment.
Then you would be very much mistaken. I have been continually employed since age 15.
Is that when you dropped out of school to work at Paulie's cab stand?
I don't shop anywhere period. However, my wife (who does the shopping) often shops at Walmart. We are determined to live below our means, so we are very cost conscience.
We know that the s*it is going to hit the fan, so we are saving as much money as we possibly can.
I do not have this level of certitude wiht regard to my claims about Barry, but my best guess is that Ayers wrot ethe books. I could be wrong, but if I had to bet money, I would say Ayers.
I never claimed Barry COULDN'T get a passport. I would like to see proof that he HAS an AMERICAN passport (my bet is that he probably did have one prior to receiving a diplomatic one when he became Senator).
What I stated is that a CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH is insufficient to obtain a passport.
Then why do you worship Reagan?
Arizona put him in a pinch. THey just passed a law requiring anyone on the ballot to provide a birth certificate. Either Barry will have to produce a certificate to the Arizona Secretary of State or he won't be on the AZ ballot.
I know AZ is a pretty red state that Palin will undoubtedly win, but this sends a message to all other states.
I have said many times that the preponderous of evidence indicates Hussein was born in Hololulu on 8/4/61. However it begs the question why he is being so secretive about it. Clearly he is hiding something.
Although I 95% believe Barry was born in Hawaii, I desperately hope that someone can prove he was not. That way we won't have to wait another 1,004 to rid ourselves of this menace.
I would be filled with tears of joy of someone could prove he was not born in Hawaii - our country would be saved. However, I am not counting on it.
Exactly.
Begging the question means using the conclusion you are arguing for as a premise in your argument (circular reasoning).
Figures you'd be a birther, goes well with this whole made-up persona of yours.
I'm still waiting for a certified copy of Palin's high school diploma.
You are wrong.
And you are incorrect. It depends upon what is contained on said Certificates. In Texas, when one requests a certified copy of one's birth certificate, the state DISCOURAGES obtaining copies of the so-called "long form" certificate. The "short-form" or "Certification of Vital Record" is all that is required to obtain a passport. It contains the person's name, date of birth, county of birth, parents' names and the file number for the "original" record.
You've shown your lack of intelligence again, BJ. Give it up. Go pretend to be someone special on another site. The jig's up here. We all know you're a joke.
No doubt you'll post some rubbish about how Wal-Mart is a wonderful example of corporate success and should be emulated. After which I'll post some links demonstrating the incredibly low wages, horrid working conditions, hegemonic and monopolistic price wars (which succeed in one thing, and that's putting small, local businesses out of business. You know, the small business owners that you and your ilk are always claiming to support and that create jobs. Those guys. The ones Wal-Mart and it's like put out of business as a matter of course), along with numerous other truly terrible facts.
You'll then respond with your usual made up garbage, where you claim that it's all a liberal plot and that only right-wing approved sources can give 'facts' about things.
So I'll save the trouble of your reply and the various ones after that and just point out, yet again, that you're a truly horrid person if you believe the things you write. You're willfully ignorant, callous, greedy, and just generally evil. You and those like you are one of the primary causes of many of the worst things that have happened to mankind in its history, and you're damned lucky that the people who actually believe in rights and freedoms aren't like you, or you and yours would have been killed or jailed long ago.
Unions are thugs. When I was a small kid, they spit on my father simply because he crossed their dumb little picket line in order to go to work. If he didn't he would have been fired (he was management) and my family would have starved to death and been homeless. He told me they were disloyal lazy people who didn't want to work hard.
Walmart is an example of corporate success. They provide people who otherwise could not afford medicine $4 generic perscriptions. How evil is that?
Walmart employees voluntarily agree to the employment conditions. If they do not like them, nobody is forcing them to stay at Walmart - they are free to seek other employment.
I also have no problem with Walmart putting small local stores out of business either. Edison put the candle making industry out of business. Henry Ford put the horse and buggy industry out of business. The PC and laser printer put the typewriter industry our of business.
Inefficient business must make way for newer better ideas to amke more efficient use of capital. This goes back to basic distribution of labor practices you learn in Econ 101.
Democrats attack Walmart because it is not unionized. They want unions to have more power (by having more members) so they can confiscate mmore of their members' dues to donate to Democrat politicians. One hand washes the other. If you want to find REAL greed look to the SEIU, the AFL-CIO, and the Democrat party.
He's hiding behind the smile that fools no-one!
Where's the video ????
You told this story already when you were posting as "sc_parker"
One of my happiest childhood memories was when my Dad and I crossed a picket line. In the 1980s, my Dad was an executive at a defense contractor (they made the engines for the jets that are dropping bombs on the terrorists). The union went on strike and my Dad had to work extra hours.
We had to cross a picket line. My Dad told me that they were lazy, greedy, and ungrateful. Afterward, I realized that it required courage to cross a picket line. Twenty years later, I was a grad student in London. A hotel was on strike. I walked right across their picket line and felt proud. I knew my Dad would be proud of me for doing so.
Do you want to repeat that lie that you have never had another "handle" here at MMFA?
YES
Really BJF? Who do you think is out there rebuilding refineries so they don't blow up? UNION GUYS
Who do you think service employees are? UNION PEOPLE
Why do you think those guys died in that Massey Mine? NOT A UNION MINE
Skilled labor requires that people have verifiable SKILLS who spend years mastering their trade.
Unions protect workers you dink! As the daughter of a lifetime UA worker I say to you "Go F yourself"
Now, see.. if he'd been in a Union.....
Paid time off
overtime (if hourly)
a pension
safe working conditions
no child labor
pay raises
paid by the hour not the peice
medical
dental
not having to be in debt to your employeer
I do not want to lose any of these things. That is why I am and will all ways say unions are good.
Walmart has been fined more for violating employee rights than any other company in history and they continue to violate these rights.
I don't get overtime - I don't make pieces - I am not in debt to my employer - nobody under the age of 22 (except for interns) works for my company - I work in an office (no safety concerns there).
OF course I have insurance and paid vacations, but it is stipulated in a employment contract we negotiated.
If he didn't deliver the audience, companies would not pay his salary in the form of advertising.
Companies have the right to pay their employees whatever they choose and it is none of your business.
What about self-employed people. Should there be a 100% tax rate on anything they earn over $400K. If so what reason would they have to produce once they have sold $400K worth of widgets?
he does not contribute one iota of productive, constructive or useful output in our society. He appears to be, in fact, to be merely a scofflaw, thug, and criminal who, by the luck of the gods, has avoided well deserved incarceration for his criminal activities.
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