Unions: Redistributing Wealth and Undermining Security

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“The late Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-MA) once said, “You cannot redistribute wealth you never created. You can’t be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.”

I would have never believed that those words would have come out of the mouth of any democrat in the last 30 years, but there have seldom been more true words spoken.

By and large, the time for labor unions in America has come and gone. While in a few cases they may still serve a purpose, they mostly serve to advance the cause of the unions more than the workers they supposedly represent, while damaging businesses and ultimately the economy. How does it help employees when you destroy the employer and the jobs they create?

http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3800850718.pdf
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As much of a failure as unions are in the modern economic arena, they are an even worse idea when it comes to national defense.  Yet now the idiots at TSA (Thousands Standing Around; Touching Sensitive Areas; Totally Senseless Administration) are going to be allowed to unionize.

“This will be President Obama’s biggest gift to organized labor,” Representative John L. Mica, Republican of Florida and chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said in a statement, adding that it was “all bad news for the traveler, the taxpayer and aviation security” because it would limit the flexibility of the agency, despite assurances from Mr. Pistole that it would not.

The agency has traditionally ranked low in surveys of federal workers that assess morale and job satisfaction, a ranking that Mr. Pistole hopes will improve if the workers are allowed to join a union that bargains on their behalf.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/05unionize.html?_r=2

You can’t possibly tell me that this is a good idea and beneficial to airport, airline, and passenger security.

Yet ANOTHER union/organized labor payoff by Obama.

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Obama Gives Away OUR Security, AND Great Britain’s

Not only did the traitOrOus sOb give away our security with the new START deal, he also gave away the security of our allies without their knowledge or permission. The POS says he’s rebuilding our image around the world. Rebuilding it into what? After two years of this idiot in charge, the rest of the world now sees us a weak, broke, and untrustworthy.  Would you trust someone who just gave away all of your military secrets to one of your worst enemies after insulting your Queen and Prime Minister?  Not likely.

Can we REALLY afford to wait until 2012 to flush this turd?

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8304654/WikiLeaks-cables-US-agrees-to-tell-Russia-Britains-nuclear-secrets.html#

WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain’s nuclear secrets

The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

HMS Vanguard is Britain’s lead Trident-armed submarine. The US, under a nuclear deal, has agreed to give the Kremlin the serial numbers of the missiles it gives Britain  Photo: TAM MACDONALD

By Matthew Moore, Gordon Rayner and Christopher Hope 9:25PM GMT 04 Feb 2011

Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.

Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.

The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.

Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that:

• America spied on Foreign Office ministers by gathering gossip on their private lives and professional relationships.

• Intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US became strained after the controversy over Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee who sued the Government over his alleged torture.

• David Miliband disowned the Duchess of York by saying she could not “be controlled” after she made an undercover TV documentary.

• Tens of millions of pounds of overseas aid was stolen and spent on plasma televisions and luxury goods by corrupt regimes.

A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.

Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.

Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.

Professor Malcolm Chalmers said: “This appears to be significant because while the UK has announced how many missiles it possesses, there has been no way for the Russians to verify this. Over time, the unique identifiers will provide them with another data point to gauge the size of the British arsenal.”

Duncan Lennox, editor of Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems, said: “They want to find out whether Britain has more missiles than we say we have, and having the unique identifiers might help them.”

While the US and Russia have long permitted inspections of each other’s nuclear weapons, Britain has sought to maintain some secrecy to compensate for the relatively small size of its arsenal.

William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, last year disclosed that “up to 160” warheads are operational at any one time, but did not confirm the number of missiles.

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