Comments on: Democrats Might Exempt Unions From Taxes

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:06:30 +0000

When you have the unions running Chrysler instead of someone who KNOWS how to do this, you will have a different result, and Dog is right- we, the taxpayers, never received a dime on our investment in 1979- the government stole it- and they will do so again, if by some impossible chance pigs fly and unions know what they are doing.

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:12:41 +0000

No, Chrysler was picked up by the taxpayer. The taxpayer received the additional money on its investment but the government spent it instead of giving it back to us.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:25:00 +0000

BLK: “your democrat congress- lower than a snake’s belly, and not rising a bit.>>

DAR
Incidentally, if you look at the history of demo congress popularity you will see that they currently enjoy the highest rating since 2001. So this bit about “not rising a bit”? More rubbish.

And since when is 42% “lower than a snake’s belly?” (see 49% below)

Oh, and as a bonus, if you look at the repub congressional approval numbers you will see that their 29% in June (and 28% in March) are the LOWEST numbers they’ve had going back to at least 1997. That’s as far as the record at this link shows.

So looks like someone is *still* trending (read: spiraling) downward.

D.
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Diageo/Hotline Poll conducted by FD. June 4-7, 2009. N=800 registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 3.5.

“Do you approve or disapprove of the job Democrats in Congress are doing?”

Approve: 49%
Disapprove: 42%

–ibid

By: Darrel

Darrel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:03:32 +0000

Chrysler was picked up from off the ground, by the government, in 1979. They paid back their loans by 1982, several years ahead of schedule and with the government making a tidy $350 million profit as well. They then went on to enjoy decades of profitability.

In this sense I say Obama has “picked” these bankrupt car companies up from off the ground and given them a second chance. What they will do with this opportunity remains to be seen.

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:11:53 +0000

Who? Hussein? Do not make me laugh- and the unions picking anyone off the ground is too bizarre to even be considered.
They had their day, and now it’s gone.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:01:15 +0000

Now they’re going to “run them into the ground”? Actually, you have it backwards. They picked them up from off of the ground.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:59:44 +0000

All polling organizations are “cooking the books?”

Is there any conspiracy so bizarre or so palpably false that you won’t reach for it in some lame attempt to preserve your belief in the impossible?

Congressional approval goes up, goes down. But Congress is not voted on as a group is it? What matters is what constituents think of *their* individual representatives.

But lets look anyway, since you brought it up:

Congress approval rating, by party:

6/10-14/09

Demo approval: 42%
Demo disapproval: 45%

http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_dem.htm

6/10-14/09
Repub approval 29%
Repub disapproval: 56%

http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_rep.htm

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:33:41 +0000

Now the plan is to exempt the unions from taxes on their healthcare benefits until 2013, four years from now. oh joy.

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:18:57 +0000

Unions are Hussein’s favorite toy right now, because they move in lockstep- so far, anyway, but what will happen when they run GM and Chrysler into the ground is another matter. Then they will have lost all their jobs, except those that are “captive” jobs, like telecommunications, or longshoremen. or cleaning the hotels.
That is why they push card- check so hard.

By: Blake

Blake — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:47:06 +0000

Keep cooking the books, Darrel, you might get a result you like- Palin’s popularity is just fine, thank you, you should look at the Un- popularity of your democrat congress- lower than a snake’s belly, and not rising a bit.