Indicator Of Ohio's Demise

When people leave and take their money and patronage with them, it is an indicator of deep problems whether it is a small business or big business. When business goes elsewhere, well, then somebody has screwed the pooch big time.


Welcome to Ohio.



Unfortunately this cannot all be blamed on Democrats, unions and their allies in poaching the public purse.


Remember Bob Taft? Remember state elected Republicans and those in Washington as they emulated Democrats? Yep, they were spending our money like drunks in a Tijuana whorehouse with no repercussions or remorse.


They did so to be re-elected or they had convinced themselves that government, and our money, could right the ills of a society that government had caused in the first place. Either way, a disaster.

If workers and business continue to flee Ohio we won't have to worry that 30% of workers will have to support the other 70% of Ohio's population. At that point governments workers from those states with fiscal sense will be supporting 100% of Ohio's population.


How low Ohio has sunk. If things do not turn around dramatically and soon, Ohio's demise will be imminent.

Chicago 1968: Armies Of The Night Begins

The history and violence of today's Democrat/Liberal/Progressive/Communist movement is a long one, but the 1968 riots at the Democrat National Convention were shown live on television and the movement began the twisted genisis that we see today.

1968 – The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1967, the Yippie movement had already begun planning a youth festival in Chicago to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. They were not alone; other groups, such as Students For a Democratic Society and the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, also made their presence known.[22] When asked about anti-war demonstrators, Daley kept repeating to reporters that “No thousands will come to our city and take over our streets, or city, our convention.”[23] In the end, 10,000 demonstrators came to Chicago for the convention where they were met by 23,000 police and National Guardsmen.[17] Daley also thought that one way to prevent demonstrators from coming to Chicago was to refuse to grant permits which would allow for people to protest legally.[24]
After the violence which took place at the Chicago convention, Daley claimed as his main reason for calling in so many Guardsmen and police was that he had received intelligence that there were going to be plots to assassinate many of the leaders, including himself. He played on the fears of the American people after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas as a means of legitimizing his calling of the Guard and the use of force in Chicago.[25]
While several protests took place before serious violence occurred, the demonstrations headed by the Yippies were not without comedy. Surrounded by reporters on August 23, 1968, Jerry Rubin, a Yippie leader, and other activists held their own presidential nominating convention with their candidate Pigasus, an actual pig. When the Yippies paraded Pigasus at the Civic Center, ten policemen arrested Rubin, Pigasus, and six others. This resulted in Pigasus becoming a media hit.[26] August 28, 1968 came to be known as the day a “police riot” took place. The title of “police riot” came out of the Walker Report, which amassed a great deal of information and eyewitness accounts to determine what actually happened in Chicago.[24] At approximately 3:30 p.m., a young boy lowered the American flag at a legal rally taking place at Grant Park. The rally was made up of 10,000 protestors.[16] The police broke through the crowd and began beating the boy, while the crowd pelted the police with food, rocks, bags of urine, and chunks of concrete.[27] The biggest clash in Chicago took place that day. Police fought with the protestors and vice versa. The chants of the protestors shifted from “Hell no, we won’t go” to “Pigs are whores.”[28] Tom Hayden, one of the leaders of Students for a Democratic Society, encouraged protestors to move out of the park to ensure that if they were to be tear gassed, the whole city would be tear gassed, and made sure that if blood were spilled in Chicago it would happen throughout the city.[29] The amount of tear gas used to suppress the protestors was so great that it eventually made its way to the Hilton Hotel where it disturbed Hubert Humphrey while in his shower.[28] The police were taunted by the protestors with chants of “Kill, kill, kill.” They sprayed demonstrators and bystanders indiscriminately with Mace.[30] What was to become the most famous picture of the Chicago demonstrations of 1968 was the police assault in front of the Hilton Hotel. The entire event took place under the T.V. lights for seventeen minutes, live, with the crowd shouting, “The whole world is watching.”[28] Meanwhile, in the convention hall, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff used his nominating speech for George McGovern to tell of the violence going on outside the convention hall, saying that “with George McGovern we wouldn’t have Gestapo tactics on the streets of Chicago.”[31] Mayor Daley responded to his remark with something that the T.V. sound was not able to pick up, but was later revealed by lip-readers that Daley had cursed “Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch! You lousy motherfucker! Go home!”[32] That night, NBC News had been switching back and forth between the demonstrators being beaten by the police to the festivities over Humphrey’s victory in the convention hall.[33] It was under the cameras of the convention center, for all of America to see; it was abundantly clear that the Democratic party was sorely divided. After the Chicago protests, the demonstrators were certain that the majority of Americans would side with them over what had happened in Chicago, especially when looking at how the police had acted. In the end, however, they were shocked to see that as unpopular as the war in Vietnam had become, the anti-war movement was hated even more.[5] Daley claimed to have received 135,000 letters supporting his actions and only 5000 condemning them. Public opinion polls demonstrated that the majority of Americans supported the Mayor’s tactics.[34]

[edit] The Chicago Seven
Main article: Chicago Seven
After Chicago, the Justice Department meted out conspiracy charges in connection with the violence at Chicago and gave birth to the Chicago Eight, which consisted of Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale.[35] In February 1970, the Chicago Conspiracy defendants were convicted on various charges and sentenced for contempt of court by Judge Julius Hoffman. The convictions were eventually reversed on appeal.[35]

You can jusge which was more odeous, the rioters or the Chicago "style" of dealing with opponents which is still going on today. Pro- health "reform" groups, funded with our tax dollars, are gearing up for new Armies of the Night (a Norman Mailer tract about the demonstrations in 1967 at the Pentagon and used as a "how-to" manual for the DNC in 1968) tactics for the nation.

I call a tie! The unions will side with the rioters, but act like Chicago thugs to break any opposition. Welcome to hope and change.

Class Warfare Or Socialism Comes To America

I loved it when 'Republicans' said they wished this new President well and they hoped he succeeded. Huh?

Then there were those who asked, "What real harm can he do? He'll have to govern from the center. Besides, next election we'll get real conservatives back in office." Looking pretty stupid now, eh?

Obama and his handlers in and out of Congress are using the time tried carrot and stick, aka class warfare, to put in place their agenda of creating a European socialist structure here in America. Soft socialism. Socialism that cares. Socialism that isn't ugly or mean. Socialism that treats all the people equally.

What a crock of crap we have wrought right here in the land of the free and the brave?

Just a few examples:

Mortgage interest deductions will be limited for those making $250K and over.

Medicine costs will rise dramatically for those over that magical number of $250K, lowered for those under the magic number.

Current tax cuts will expire.

Tax increases for working families. Especially on those evil cretins called employers.

Oh, just to prove that they have heart, cigarette taxes will rise yet again by 62 cents on every pack, but those poor people who smoke will be made smart enough to shun cigarettes in the future through medical education and increased monies to the schools to preach the preachiness that good government and good health go hand in hand.

Pelosi, Obama, Reid, Soros. In just a few months, if all goes as planned, their hope is that government will really be seen as the only entity that is big enough to handle our problems. The deficit will/has skyrocketed while countries such as Communist China and Russia, aka Mini USSR, will announce that the US is too much a risk to continue to support our debt, thus stop.

The government bureaucracy will continue to pump out fiction-as-fact to support the continued work of our savior in DC. The administration will continue to turn on its head the phrase, "in for a penny, in for a pound" by accentuating the hardship we all face and stupid platitudes like, "We must not replace our curtains when our foundation needs fixed."

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Obama is pledging budget cuts through waste, fraud and pay to the rich reductions. This warrior with his face into the wind and his eye of our safety and our future will sacrifice all to save us.

What a crock of crap.

This is simply a choreographed bureaucratic dance to consolidate power by welfaring over half of the voters who already do not pay taxes. Yes, over half the voters do not pay taxes. Now, those that work will subsidize those that do not, but now those non-tax payers have a partner in the federal and state governments and they will vote for Democrats. It really is a New Deal, again.

And it will be just as destructive to our core principles as the first New Deal because eventually those that are paying the taxes and the bills of our nation will arrive at that point where they say, "What the hell, I'll just get the freebies too."

Class warfare, liberal/socialist policies, same thing. Same result. Misery equally shared. Their vision of equality for all means quality for none.

Obama Unions Quid Pro Quo United Against Republicans

UPDATE: I wish I could post the response to AFSCME's attack ads put together by Rep. Cantor's staff, but it is too vulgar. Made to sound like a Jersey union goon, it is funny and makes fun of the self righteous attitude of the unions.

Via The Plum Line
Update: Brad Woodhouse, the head of Americans United for Change, which is also funding the initial ad hitting the GOP leadership, sends over a statement demanding that Cantor apologize.
"This is a childish and disgusting response to one of the most serious crises facing America in our lifetimes. This spoof of AFSCME has been floating around on YouTube for years — but its use in this context shows how completely and utterly out of touch with the current economic crisis and the lives of Americans Eric Cantor and the GOP leadership really is. Cantor should apologize."

Unfortunately Rep. Cantor has already apologized for the parody. Personally, I would start pumping them out, minus the vulgarities, as fast as I could. The unions, Democrats and all their internet thugs deserve all the ridicule hurled at them. That they act with such righteous indignation only makes this funnier.

Original:
Oh my. Unions spent millions to elect Obama to get in return support to buy Card Check legislation to enlarge unions and now that Obama is promising the unions millions back in repayment the unions can go after Republicans. That is what Obama and the unions colluded on from the beginning of his candidacy.

Obama allies attack GOP leadership
The labor-backed, pro-stimulus group Americans United for Change and the public workers' union AFSCME are going up with a national cable spot, also airing in Washington D.C., with the sharpest attack yet on Republican leaders in the House and Senate.
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The radio spot targets Senators Voinovich of Ohio, Ensign of Nevada ,and Murkowski of Alaska and Reps. Shelley Moore Capito (WV). Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO), Jo Ann Emerson (MO), Jim Gerlach (PA), Charlie Dent (PA), Fred Upton (MI), Todd Platts (PA), Mike Castle (DE), Candice Miller (MI), Michael Turner (OH), Steve LaTourette (OH), Patrick Tiberi (OH), Eric Cantor (VA), Dave Reichert (WA), Bill Cassidy (LA), John Fleming (LA), Brett Guthrie KY), and Jim Cooper (TN).

Collusion between unions, special interest groups and the Democratic Party has never been more apparent and never more unAmerican.

Democrats Wish To Codify Union Thuggery Into Law

The private ballot is an almost sacred right of Americans.

Unions, in an attempt to regain their dwindling power to crush business into submission, want 'card check' passed into law by the Democrat controlled congress. They expect the passage of card check as payola for all the work, money and corruption they have used to elect Democrats nationwide. Card check will legislate the private ballot as illegal. Card check will give unions the right and the power to intimidate workers in nonunion shops into becoming union members.

Reid made it apparent that the Democrats fully intend to pay the unions for their political work.

Reid: ‘I don’t work for Obama’

Reid declined to speculate as to when the controversial, union-backed “card-check” legislation will pass the upper chamber. Yet he said the bill is important to him and Obama.

“The union movement was hurt very, very badly in the Bush administration, and we are going to reverse that.”

Reid said he is interested in working with Republicans on card-check.
“But remember,” Reid said with a smile, “we think we only need two Republican votes.”

Even old liberal warhorse George McGovern knows Card check is un-American.

The control unions have on the Democrat Party will be writ large not only with the payback to the unions by the passage of card check, but by also imposing government bureaucrats, who are unionized, as those determining company contracts with workers during arbitration.

Card check will allow unions to beat nonunion workers and companies into submission and then force those companies into contracts written by union arbitrators and enforced by a congress owned by unions.

Of course Harry Reid doesn't work for Obama, he works for the unions.

Reason 666 Why Congress Is Too Stupid To Be In Business

The auto bailout Democrat congressional payola for union support will probably be used to support the UAW's Black Lakes Golf Club which has lost over $23 million in just the last five years.

Autoworkers Union Keeps $6 Million Golf Course for Members at $33 Million Lakeside Retreat
Even as the industry struggles with massive losses, the UAW brass continue to own and operate a $33 million lakeside retreat in Michigan, complete with a $6.4 million designer golf course. And it's costing them millions each year.

The UAW, known more for its strikes than its slices, hosts seminars and junkets at the Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center in Onaway, Mich., which is nestled on "1,000 heavily forested acres" on Michigan's Black Lake, according to its Web site.

But the Black Lake club and retreat, which are among the union's biggest fixed assets, have lost $23 million in the past five years alone, a heavy albatross around the union's neck as it tries to manage a multibillion-dollar pension plan crisis.
Critics call it a resort for union leaders that wastes money from union dues.

An aerial view of the Black Lakes Golf Club, a $6 million golf course owned and operated by the United Auto Workers.

Together, unions and congress should be able to bankrupt American industry.

Congress Starts Nationalizing American Business In The Name Of Good

Bad business is bad for investors, workers and the buying public. Government in business, nationalizing, is worse.

As it used to be said of the Soviet Union, it may also be said of the Unites States government; If you put the government in charge of deserts then there will be a sand shortage soon.

U.S. Could Take Stakes in Big 3
Congress and the White House inched toward a financial rescue of the Big Three auto makers, negotiating legislation that would give the U.S. government a substantial ownership stake in the industry and a central role in its restructuring.

Under terms of the draft legislation, which continued to evolve Monday evening, the government would receive warrants for stock equivalent to at least 20% of the loans any company receives. The company also would have to agree to limits on executive compensation and dividend payments, much like those contained in the government's $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.

In the case of General Motors Corp., such a move could give the government a large stake in the company and may hurt existing shareholders. GM is seeking about $10 billion in short-term loans and has a market capitalization of about $3 billion. The legislation didn't specify what kind of stock the government would take, leaving open the option it could be preferred, common, voting or nonvoting.

Assuming congressional Democrats and the White House come to agreement on the plan, the car industry would be the latest to submit to strict government scrutiny in return for a bailout, joining most prominently the banking sector.

To add insult to injury, the unions which have had a huge hand in paralyzing industry nationwide and also happen to be as corrupt as organized crime, but I repeat myself, now wants an "equity stake" in GM and a seat on the board. This is such blatant blackmail that even Jesse Jackson must be blanching and as such, I think it must be an outrageous bargaining chip.

In a sign of how messy the reorganization could become, the United Auto Workers union is seeking to attach strings to any concessions it makes for the Big Three. Marc McQuillen, president of UAW Local 2404 in Charlotte, N.C., said the union is looking for an equity stake in GM and likely a seat on the company's board. UAW officials in Detroit couldn't be reached for comment.

Any politician that votes for what congress considers a bailout for the UAW auto-industry as described here should be thrown out of office and made to beg on the streets for scraps.

Appalachia Gets A New Bully - Nurses

The families of patients can be scared, worried, anxious about bills, but also calmed by a first class medical system taking care of their love ones. Unless the nurse is caring a coal axe to grind.

Nurses' Strike Drags on in Appalachia

Labor strife is as familiar in these Appalachian hills as poverty and poor health. Blevin's own Harlan County, home to several century-old coal-mining communities, has a history of violent labor fights. Attempts to organize miners in the 1930s drew national attention to "Bloody Harlan."

The contract rejected by the nurses would have increased insurance
premiums for families, eliminated a policy of paying nurses 40 hours of pay for
36 hours of work and reduced holiday pay from double-time to time- and-a-half.

The pay range for ARH nurses is $47,000 to $65,000 - far above
the $39,000 median household income in Kentucky. In Appalachia, more than a
quarter of the population lives below the federal poverty level. Few other jobs,
beyond coal mining, offer better wages or compensation, Troske said.

It is shameless that workers should have to work 40 hours to get paid for 40 hours work instead of getting a bonus of 180 - 200 extra paid hours per year. That's like only getting up to 5 weeks of paid vacation while also getting paid to do your job. Besides, it's only a piddling free $6,500.00 per year. That hardly covers tips at the Huddle House and dry cleaning. How fair is that?

Don't even talk about only getting time and a half at holidays when you deserve double over time? You must be getting cheated. Everyone should get double time. The FLSA be damned. It is your right to get twice your normal pay just for hanging around.

I can't believe you have to pay more in health premiums like everyone else, except Congress, in the country. That's like making auto workers pay the higher cost of gas today! Or coal miners having to pay more for heat because they priced the cost of labor out of sight. On the other hand, though, there are those unfeeling people that might say that not only are you letting sick people and their families down, but you might also be one of the reasons you have to pay higher health premiums. Whatever.

Bloody Harlan's new call might be "Remember the bedpans". At $31.25 per hour, you better remember the bedpan. At $62.50 per hour, it better be as warm as a chestnut this holiday.