In These Times

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• • 12 Feb 09
  • 4:28 pm

  Bernie Sanders, the most openly left-wing adovocate of socialist dogma in congress, writes about the contirbutions of large companies to conservative candidates and causes and how they expect favorable results from their actions. He fails to mention the billiion dollars spent by unions from monies taken from the working people of this country unforunate enough to have to pay union bosses to be able to earn a living. I write as someone whose union dues monies were spent to back candates and causes that I was completely opposed to. I sent money to candidates who were opposed by the money taken …

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• • 12 Feb 09
  • 4:46 pm

  In reply to JIm Hill who states the Hitler, a crackpot lunatic would have never won power in Germany if it hadn't been for a financial crisis. I wonder if Mr. Hill sees the irony of his comparison since Barrack Obama would never have been elected as president of this country if it hadn't been for the financial criisis. A financial crisis caused in good part by the refusal of the Democrats to allow any control over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Also those same Democrats threatened banks with huge fines and investigations if they did not give loans to unqualified …

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• • 22 Feb 09
  • 9:12 pm

  . Mr or Ms ffakr, Self-proclaimed 30 year union member? Grasping at straws there my sarcastic critic. I was an union ironworker for over thirty years in San Francisco. I went through the apprenticeship after majoring in International Relations at the University of Minnesota. At the time I joined the union I was a staunch liberal and proved the adage attributed to Winston Churchill, "If a person is not a socialist in their youth, they have no heart. If they remain on in their maturity, they have no head". As a youth, I believed much of the pie in the sky …

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