Labor unions are responsible for the many benefits of our jobs that we enjoy today. Even if you only work part time in the worst job possible, you still enjoy at least some of the fruits that labor has fought for. Here are 20 of them.
There is all manner of filth and lies being told on conservative Facebook pages today about how Democrats are to blame for the attacks of 9/11. It made me stop and think back to the things that I recall about our national nightmare.
This is what it looks like when ‘businessmen’ run your government. It becomes an asset, a means to an end.
Chuck Norris calls upon non-existent voters to turn out to the polls to prevent an Obama victory
Labor unions are important. The American worker has a lot of things to thank the efforts of organized labor for. The 40 hour work week, pensions, health care, and the minimum wage are just a few things that unions have fought for on behalf of the American worker. Corporations are now on the verge of destroying unions and seek to strip away the right to organize and strike. To this effort, corporate bosses and their Republican puppets are falsely blaming organized labor for the problems in our economy.
Republican ideology would dismantle the programs and security of the New Deal…all for the sake of corporate profits and offshore wealth of a hereditary oligarchy.
We really have to stop self-destructing. Democrats ARE different than Republicans, the previous Democratic House, led by Nancy Pelosi, DID try like hell to make this country better, but Republicans blocked them.
How would the Founding Fathers feel about corporations? Read the history, and some of their own quotes, and you’ll see that they would have opposed massive corporations and corporate influence in politics.
Many Americans today tend to take the past for granted, and with that, we also tend to take the words of past leaders for granted. We forget what they told us, and as a result we lose our identity, we lose the values that make us who we are. Below is a list of quotes spoken by American leaders, heroes, journalists, and others.
Ok… so maybe ‘idiotic conservative’ is a little redundant. At any rate, here’s a snapshot into the ignorant world of Republican-land. Putting these phrases back into context would simply make them sound even more moronic. Enjoy yourself a laugh at some of the scariest words ever uttered by Conservatives.
Whenever conservative bloggers try to be clever and ‘expose’ liberal myths, you just know it’s time to pull out the rain coat, ’cause there’s gonna be a whole lot of bullshit flying around.
The GOP War on Women is supposedly being waged to save lives but they always neglect the long term problems for the short term political gain. Not very compassionate, is it?
What do conservatives do when they screw up big time? Blame Bill Clinton for something, of course!
As much as the right wants to deny it, their vision of the future is not one of freedom but of servitude.
