....Sixty-three percent of those surveyed -- including a majority of Democrats and independents -- say corporations wield more political clout than unions. Public employees, meanwhile, are viewed favorably by a large majority: 72 percent, compared with 17 percent who have an unfavorable view....
....Sixty-four percent of respondents, including a plurality of Republicans, say public employees should have the right to bargain collectively for their wages. Sixty-three percent, including 55 percent of Republicans, say states without enough money to pay for all the pension benefits they have promised to current retirees shouldn’t be able to break those obligations.....
....The skirmishes have intensified support for unions among their members and Democrats, a potential challenge to Republicans in the 2012 elections, says Scott Keeter, a pollster with Pew Research Center in Washington....
Keeter explains that these issues "....could have implications for voter turnout among these groups next year....”
The voters could hit the polls next year and punish Republicans for their attacks on the working public. People have to realize that Kasich and his Republican sheeple are not finished yet with the average worker. They want to go after overtime pay next by giving companies the option of not paying overtime but instead offer time off. You can imagine what some bosses would do with that idea.
Kasich's speech yesterday was very poor. I've had seventh grade public school students deliver better organized, more memorable speeches. My grade for Kasich's speech= D+.
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Americans United for Change has a message for Republican Rep. Steve Stivers (OH-15), a former bank lobbyist:
On the heels of troubling reports that the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives is considering a radical plan to privatize Medicare and slash benefits for Ohio seniors, a newbillboard is up in Columbus with a simple message for Congressman Steve Stivers (R-OH-15): Don’t do it. Progressive issue-advocacy group Americans United for Change is behind the sign posted at the intersection of Hamilton Road and Groves Road in Columbus which will be up through March 20th.
The House Republicans’ fiscal year 2012 federal budget expected to be released in April will reportedly include “an effort to reform entitlement programs including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.” GOP leadership is mulling whether to include in the budget a proposal authored by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) that would replace Medicare with a voucher system that would dramatically shortchange seniors on their medical care.
Tom McMahon, executive director, Americans United for Change:“Congressman Stivers owes Ohio’s seniors a straight on where he stands on this misguided privatization scheme for Medicare that will leave them paying more and more out of pocket for their care. If he does support it, he must explain why he is seeking to dismantle Medicare as we know it and slash benefits for seniors at the same time he is protecting billions of dollars in needless subsidies for the oil industry. If he doesn’t support privatizing Medicare, is he doing everything in his power to discourage his Republican Party bosses from pursuing it – and if not, why not?”
Contact Stivers and tell him not to privatize Medicare:
Washington, DC
Phone: (202) 225-2015
Fax: (202) 225-3529
Columbus, OH
Phone: (614) 299-6415
Fax: (614) 299-9601
http://stivers.house.gov/Contact/ContactForm.htm
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Why would NPR fire someone that spoke the truth?
MSNBC:
NPR's CEO and president, Vivian Schiller, has been forced to resign, the radio broadcaster's media correspondent said Wednesday, following an undercover sting in which a senior executive was videotaped describing Tea Party members as "racist."
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Tea Party members are racist. Open your eyes and examine the crowds of Tea Party activists. How many minorities can you count in the crowd? How many racist signs have you seen within Tea Party groups? Case close.