Pro-Vote to have pickets along Bush route
Missouri Pro-Vote (Progressive Vote Coalition) plans to hold a protest Friday morning as President George W. Bush’s motorcade travels from the airport to World Wide Technologies Inc., in Maryland Heights, for a visit that is to focus on the nation’s economy.
Pro-Vote executive director John Hickey said the protest’s message will be that “the mission is not accomplished,” referring to today’s fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, and the nation’s troubled economy.
Money spent on the war could have gone instead to improve the nation’s access to health care and to protect the environment, Hickey said.
The rally is to be at Dorsett and Weldon Parkway, beginning at 10 a.m.
Those at Thursday’s news conference included Earline Jones, president of Local 6377 of the C0mmunication Workers of America.
Jones focused on the local’s loss of 650 jobs with Western Union, which are being moved to Canada, Mexico and several countries in Central America. She blamed Bush for the outsourcing.
That is so St. Louis…come off looking like a cow town full of hoosiers standing out there with your bellies sticking out holding a make-shift, scrappy looking sign. And don’t bother to shave or shower, just roll out of bed and slip your old smelly jeans and sweatshirt on and stand like a red-neck with a 2 cent sign in your nappy little hands. BOO-HOO why did I vote for you Georgie..you fooled me again.
What makes us look like total hoosiers is that we voted for him TWICE and that many of us still cannot see the connection between those terrible choices (particularly the second time around) and things like the Western Union shutdown. Do your stuff Pro-Vote! Stand proud for those of us that get it. Skppy, W wouldn’t walk across the street to extinguish you if you were on fire, even though I am sure you make a fine personal presentation. Don’t kid yourself.
The unions, whose demands for higher wages and benefits have driven employment overseas, blame President Bush for the outsourcing? That’s funny. Bush did nothing to cause it, and could do nothing to stop it.
Keep those unions strong (translation: keep losing American jobs)!
Typical liberal to blame everything on Bush. When the same problems are occurring when a Dem gets in office, we’ll be hearing that its because of the Bush legacy in the White House.
The stigma of a cow town is perpetuated by citizens that do not recognize their voice is being stifled by the Bush administration. The disdain Bush-Cheney have for the media prevents dissent that thankfully is being attempted by this nation’s last salvation-unions. For those who still blame the unions for US job losses, check out the US Chamber of Commerce position on growing wages in China. They have made it no secret; if the profits generated from exploiting cheap labor in central China continues, they have advised the manufacturers to relocate to the south or jump the border to Viet Nam. No union involved there. Just more workers who have witnessed their voices being stifled-sort of like Bush does in this country all while pretending to care for democracy. Wake up people!
Food for thought for all you Bush apologists (please don’t choke):
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ~Barbara Ehrenreich
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. ~William O. Douglas
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. ~Edward R. Murrow
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. ~Harry S. Truman
Be not intimidated… nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice. ~John Adams
I hope the ProVote folks got their message across. Good for them!
What unions are strong, the nation is strong. When unions began to diminish, wages froze, prices increased and the middle class began to disappear.
Like gaydem, I hope the ProVote folks got their message across.
If unions are to blame for the outsourcing of jobs how do you explain Mexico’s job losses to China? Or China’s job losses to Viet-Nam?
When it comes to high wages you have no problems with CEO salaries. Do their salaries not apply to the cost of products? What about their pensions? Healthcare programs? Or is it only the $30 per hour construction workers salaries that you disdain? How much is too much? Should workers be forced to compete with .50 cent per hour jobs in China? Or maybe we should have to compete with .10 cent per hour jobs in India?
I’ll bet you anti-union/anti-American’s love to buy goods made in Japan or Viet Nam. No unions to worry about there.
Why don’t you patriots go fly your American flags made in China on your Jap or Korean made cars or dress your children in clothes made in sweat shops by children making 6 1/2 cents an hour?
When you eliiminate the unions and the middle class who will be the consumers that drive the economy?
Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law. Bill Clinton granted China with “Most Favored Nation” status opening their borders up for more trade. He hurt working class America with bone headed moves like that.
For those reasons Hillary scares me.
I find it facinating that some of you think unions are the problems with our country. It was the unions that got our children out of the sweat shops and mines and into the schools at the turn of the century. It was our unions that fought for 40 hour work weeks and overtime pay. It was the unions that helped establish a middle class in this country.
If you think that the unions are the problems and that we do not need unions then look no further than some of the countries that do not have unions and tell me they are better off. Look at the standards of living in the newly industrialized worlds of India, Bangledesh, China, Viet-Nam.