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Shemp Howard

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5. In the meantime, cancel NAFTA

Reply to Jack Rabbit (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 06:21 PM

Nov 2013

I'm all for carefully targeted protective tariffs to get industry back to America. But I'd be happy enough (for now) if Obama would just announce that the US was backing out of NAFTA. Of couse that will never happen.

Now I'm off-topic Jack Rabbit, but Woody Guthrie was the man. I never heard a song of his that I didn't like. Awhile back, our union was involved in a dispute with management. At one meeting someone began to play Anne Feeney's "Union Maid", a song that I had never heard before.

"I'll bet that's one of Woody's," I said to myself. And I was right.

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Union membership is dropping like a stone. Shemp Howard Nov 2013 #1

We should inform the tea party, aka Koch heads . . . Jack Rabbit Nov 2013 #2

In the meantime, cancel NAFTA Shemp Howard Nov 2013 #5

And turn back TPP/TPIP Jack Rabbit Nov 2013 #10

Yep! We should have elected THIS guy instead: bvar22 Nov 2013 #12

Wow, no one even saw this...??? WhaTHellsgoingonhere Nov 2013 #17

And when taxes were much higher on the wealthy and corporations. pangaia Nov 2013 #26

Maybe new unions will come out of the movements he's talking about el_bryanto Nov 2013 #3

I hope so. IMO, Unions have failed to keep apace with the rightwing onslaught. And they are too KittyWampus Nov 2013 #6

Fake progressives huh ? Myrina Nov 2013 #4

Yeah, that does bother me a bit... Shemp Howard Nov 2013 #7

and he was the only one to vote no on the initial Iraq vote. liberal_at_heart Nov 2013 #11

Yep. No good Democrat should EVER go into the Lion's Den... bvar22 Nov 2013 #13

... Enthusiast Nov 2013 #22

Actually Union membership is on the rise. INdemo Nov 2013 #15

K & R SunSeeker Nov 2013 #8

K & R !!! WillyT Nov 2013 #9

And I believe Occupy Wall Street had a lot to do with this. cui bono Nov 2013 #14

I went to the biggest Black Friday Wal-Mart strike/protest in the country last year pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #20

I really think OWS spurred a lot of this by getting income disparity out into the dialogue. cui bono Nov 2013 #21

OWS: perhaps the only folks with good intentions left Shemp Howard Nov 2013 #23

K&R ReRe Nov 2013 #16

Sorry, wrong place pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #19

k&r n/t RainDog Nov 2013 #18

K&R nt TBF Nov 2013 #24

K&R As retired union members, we are hopefully watching the rebirth mountain grammy Nov 2013 #25