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   ahall@no-spam-panix.com to All   
   Re: Carl Levin and Richard Shelby on Mee   
   28 Nov 08 11:33:48   
   
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   >>>>> CB  writes:   
      
      CB> "Alvin York"  wrote in message   
      news> 18203-492C979A-1466@storefull-3132.bay.webtv.net...   
      >> Unions result from a long history of struggling   
      >> workers who suffered for decades under exploitation from the large   
      >> Corporations, mining companies and railroads.   
      >>   
      >> History is rife with stories of miners who lived in tents with their   
      >> families on slag piles outside the mines where they worked. As profits   
      >> increased dramatically for the owners only prices increased for the   
      >> workers. Tempers flared, riots started, and strikes ensued.   
      >>   
      >> At first the owners hired security companies like Pinkerton to control   
      >> the workers. Pinkerton used Gatling guns (the first machine guns) aimed   
      >> at all times on the tent villages and operated sporadically against   
      >> workers and their families  The workers lived in fear for their lives   
      >> and many lives were lost.   
      
      CB> Those mean ole bosses who the precursor to Dim Libs of today who robbed   
      CB> Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. Jon Corzine made off with 400 million before   
      CB> running Goldman Sachs into the ground. There wasn't any killings going   
   on   
      CB> but there sure are ruined lives because of Clinton's Legacy of greed.   
      
      CB> Do you know the Clinton Library manages over $400 million? Slick sure   
   has   
      CB> profited off the backs of corporate America giving bleeding heart   
   lectures   
      CB> on philanthropy. I wonder how much he got from Fannie during Franklin   
   Raines   
      CB> thievery.   
      
      
   I can understand the ignorance.  It is the pride in the ignorance   
   that baffles me.   
      
      
   --   
   Andrew Hall   
   (Now reading Usenet in talk.politics.misc...)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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