This Looks Like A Great Place To Picket

The Big Lie

First, he attacks public employees through SB5.  Then he goes after prevailing wage. King John has the stones to say he not anti-union.  This is the big lie that Republicans are so good at.  As King John chokes the life out of labor, he looks labor right in the eye, and says, I'm not trying to kill you.  But labor does not die, labor does not forget.  There will be blood in the streets.  Republican blood will be spilled with a sharp blow from the ballot box.

Senate Bill 5 The Musical

Sarah Palin is a .....

I just about fell over when I saw this picture.

Union Busting

KING JOHN PREPARES TO TAKE A DUMP ON WORKING FAMILIES
HE'LL SWEAR TO GOD THAT HIS SHIT DOES NOT STINK.   ALL I CAN SAY IS STAND UPWIND.

King John says he's not trying to break the unions.  But he's taking collective bargaining away from state employees.  How is that not breaking the union?  But he bragging about it all over the place.  I think he really believes that if he says it enough times then it will become true.  My Daddy always says wishing in one hand and shitting in the other.


Union Busting Fund Raising

Union Busting Bastards Ride Again!

Asshole's Identity Revealed From My Previous Post

Jack Painter, a corporate attorney from Indian Hill near Cincinnati.  He's a local tea party nut.  This is his palace.  No wonder he can't relate to the average working man or woman. 

5820 Graves Lake Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45243-3635

Who Is This Asshole?

Does anyone know who this guy is?   You know what they say, karma's a bitch.  I hope the bastard goes bankrupt and then has to go on assistance! 

Who Is This Asshole?

Tea Baggers Are Taken by Surprise

February 17, 2011 

They thought they had the perfect idea to stand out in the crowd at the SB5 hearing.  The tea baggers were going to wear red.  The unions caught wind of this and ordered a couple thousand red t-shirts that had "No on SB5" on the t-shirts.  Poor tea baggers they blended into the crowd and into obscurity from whence they came.

Pictures from SB5 Hearing-It's a Beautiful Thing

Tea Baggers Snatch Senior Citizens

It seems the tea baggers could not get enough of their own people to attend the SB5 hearings to support SB5 so they recruited senior citizens with the promise of a free meal and a t-shirt.  One senior citizen was asked where did he retire from.  He replied that he was a state employee and he and his wife depend on the retirement health insurance.  It was explained to him that the tea baggers were out to gut the pensions and strip his health insurance away.  The senior citizen was offered on of the union's t-shirts, he excused himself and promptly changed his t-shirt to "No on SB5".  I guess he'll have to explain himself on the way home on the tea bagger express.

To My Union Brothers & Sisters

It is time...to rise up in our righteous indignation and strike a blow for the sake of future generations.  It is time to take arms and take back what is rightfully ours.  

Who's with me?

He's Astounded?

Really, really, I say it again really.  King John causes the "political divide" with his radical right tactics, and he has the nerve to be "astounded".  He says that the players should "put aside differences to develop the best policies for the state."  What he really means is that they should agree with his plan because he knows what is best for the state.  King John decries the public sector unions as too costly but does not even bother to ask them for their ideas on how close the budget gap.  No one has gone to any public sector union and asked "What would you be willing to give up?"

Governor Says He’s ‘Astounded’ By Political Divide

Gov. John Kasich said Tuesday he has been “astounded” by the deep political divisions he has seen in his first month as governor and called on Statehouse players to put aside differences to develop the best policies for the state.

His comments came during an event held by the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus, which has been critical of the governor’s efforts toward diversity in his cabinet but agreed in a private meeting Monday to work with the Republican on legislative priorities.

The OLBC luncheon at the Statehouse Atrium was held about an hour before the latest hearing on a rollback of collective bargaining laws (SB 5), which the governor supports, again drew a massive turnout of mostly union members opposed to the GOP policy proposal.

The governor said in his speech to OLBC that people should be able to express their differences if done with respect, but stressed they should come together to return the state to prosperity.

“I have been astounded by the partisanship that I have seen since I’ve been governor for 30 days,” Mr. Kasich said. “Not just among African-Americans and whites, but between Democrats and Republicans.”

“That kind of partisanship poisons the well that we all must drink from.”

Mr. Kasich said he never saw such partisanship during his time in Washington, D.C. “I have been aghast and the inability of both sides to communicate and work together,” he said, predicting that Democrats and Republicans will be working better together by the end of his time in office. “I have been so shocked at the distrust between the parties.”

The governor and black legislative leaders have been sparring over the number of blacks who have been appointed to key positions in the cabinet. (See Gongwer Ohio Report, February 14, 2011)

He called on everyone involved to remember they are involved in government to help serve the people. That recollection, he said, should help parties reach agreements on tough policy decisions, like the budget.

“My goal in the budget is that nobody gets passed,” Mr. Kasich said, noting that a “restructuring” of government is in order. “Delivering a better product at a lower price to serve the customer.”

Mr. Kasich also reiterated that he won’t be driven by special interest requests. “I don’t care what the special interests say,” he said. “Because if you let the special interests (HERE KING JOHN MEANS THE PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS) dominate the process, then it always comes out hurting the most vulnerable.”

He said he would work to make the state more prosperous by making it more suitable for business. “I don’t believe we can tax our way to prosperity, but…over time we can’t cut our way. All we can do is to set the table for entrepreneurship and economic growth. And I intend to do that.”

Gov. Kasich expressed concerns about cities, noting the recent deadly shooting in Youngstown. “We need to take our communities back one block at a time,” he said.

Mr. Kasich also said he had problems with a felony charge that has been brought against a northeast Ohio woman who sought to get her kids enrolled in a different school. “We’ll see what the Parole Board ultimately recommends, but a felony for a woman who is trying to protect her kids just doesn’t seem right to me,” he said.

Senate Bill 5 Die, Union, Die

Jack Booted Thugs in Ohio Ride Again

The Tea Party is going to come out in force in support of SB5 to repeal collective bargaining for public employees.  These idiots are itching for a confrontation.  They have absolutely no idea what they are marching except that their fuhrer, King John "wants to break the backs of the union".  I say throw their ass in the nearest river and let them float away as the fecal matter they are.

Amend the Constitution to Permit Collective Bargaining?

I say, yes.  King John wants to repeal collective bargaining for public employee and make this a right to work state.  Put those rights they seek to destroy in the constitution!

It's All About the Benjamins

King John is at it again.  This time he is railing the state's prevailing wage.  He claims it is too expensive but what he is really after are the unions whose wages lift up the standard of living for all of Ohio's workers.  You see, King John believes that a job that pays $10 an hour is all you need and anymore is robbing from the construction companies. Prevailing wage ensures a healthy standard of living FOR THE WORKER.  This is something King John and his cronies are not interested in?

Why was the prevailing wage created? 
    

Prevailing wage laws were established to maintain quality workmanship,
insure the strength of local economies through construction work, and
prevent low-wage, unskilled workers from undercutting an area’s standard of living.

The Case for Preserving the Prevailing Wagebooklet.pdf

Whatever it takes to rob from the middle and working class only to give it to the wealthy is the end game for King John.  He'll lie right to your face and tell you he's on your side while he takes money right from your pocket.

King John Must Go

We've been living under his oppression long enough (Since January, but it seems like decades).  Now is the time to rise up and oppose his iron fisted rule.  Just as our brothers and sisters in Egypt broke their bondage, we need to take to the streets.

Oh, you think I am being unfair by comparing Ohio to Egypt.  Well, frack you.  Fairness depends on which side of the boot heel you are on.  I'm feeling a boot on my neck.

It's Good To Be The King

This writer has learned that Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) has or will pay for modifications to the fence and lights at North Central Correctional Institution.  That's real interesting since that's a state facility.  But it is also the facility that the private prison companies benchmark against.  What's a private company doing paying for upgrades?  Unless, the fix is in.  And how many of these companies contributed to King John's campaign. I guess pay to play is alive and well in Ohio.  The next step will be to have the pre-determined private prison companies take over.

Here's how it will happen.  King John will see to it that collective bargaining goes away.  He's got a good start with Senate Bill 5.  Without the union to stand in their way, private companies will move in to pick this state clean as they have been promised by King John.  To the victor go the spoils!  Or in this case, your tax money is going to be siphoned out of state in the name of privatization. 

It's good to be the king!

King John has managed to appoint a few more old white people.  Jo Ann Davidson, age 83, has been tapped to chair the Ohio Casino Commission.  Betty Montgomery and Jim Petro are slithering their way back into government.  Meanwhile qualified minority GOP favorites haven't even got a call.  White bread is all King John's grocery store sells.  Sooner or later, King John has to run out of white people to appoint. 


http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/02/09/exclusive-pt-ii-betty-montgomery-to-be-named-to-casino-commission-too-jim-petro-to-be-appointed-chancellor-of-ohio-board-of-regents/


Monocrome Appointees

Time To Fight

King John and his GOP cronies are punishing state workers by acting to repeal collective bargaining for public employees.  What they being punished for?  Because they dared use their rights to collectively bargain to better the lives of working men and women in the State of Ohio.  So, over 300,000 state and local public sector employees are facing the prospect of collective begging instead of collective bargaining.  
King John and his GOP cronies say they have to do this to get the state and local fiscal house in order.  Funny, no one from King John's office has asked any of the public sector unions what they would be willing to give up to help with the budget crisis.  It's clear that only thing King John and GOP want from public sector unions is to die. Make no mistake about it, this is union busting pure and simple.  Actually, it is more than that, it is union genocide. It is time fight!

Jumbo Size My Government Please

I thought the GOP was all about shrinking the size of government.  In HB 94, it looks like King John is creating more government, not less:

House Bill 94 

Let's face it. It looks as though King John wants to make it difficult for any regulation of small business. So he's setting up a bureaucracy to kill any initiative for regulation of small business.   Something is definitely wrong with this picture.

His Majesty Has Grand Ambitions

The rumor is that King John does not plan on completing his term as governor.  Oh, no...he is positioning himself for the 2012 vice-presidential nomination.  You see Ohio, King John cares not what happens to this state after he is gone.  What he cares about is showing conservatives nationally that he has the right stuff (pun intended).  So if that means systematically dismantling services that Ohioans have come to expect, then so be it.  The time is coming in Ohio when you will pay a private company to enter state parks, and then, if you are unfortunate enough to have to go to the bathroom, pay by the sheet for toilet paper.

Violent Offenders To Be Released?

A little Republican birdie was singing a blues tune called, "I Found Reality a Drag" by King John and the Neocons.  Seems King John found that there are not enough non-violent offenders to reduce the prison population to where his highness had promised.  In order to close or privatize prisons, will King John  decree that violent offenders will be released?  Of course, they won't be called violent offenders.  Private prisons don't like violent offenders or offenders that cost a lot of money like sick inmates so they will not be of much help.  Look for King John to direct the Department of Corrections to revise their security classification or some other administrative paperwork gimmick to allow violent offenders to be released earlier.  King John wants close a number of prisons to balance the budget.  It seems reality is intruding on the king's conservative wet dream. 

Of these offenses, who do you think should be released?

Drug Possession	2399	20.1
Trafficking in Drugs	1466	12.3
Grand Theft	1423	12.0
Receiving Stolen Property	836	7.0
Breaking and Entering	532	4.5
Burglary	531	4.5
Non-Support of Dependents	491	4.1
Domestic Violence	474	4.0
Forgery	307	2.6
Weapon Under Disability	271	2.3
Robbery	229	1.9
Aggravated Assault	212	1.8
Carrying Concealed Weapon	202	1.7
Escape	169	1.4
Assault	163	1.4
Failure to Notify Change of Address	141	1.2
Resisting Arrest	130	1.1
Driving While Intoxicated	126	1.1
Tampering w/Evidence	108	.9
All Other Crimes	1696	14.2
Total Admissions to Serve Less Than One Year	11906	100.0

 
Characteristics of those who enter the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) with an Expected Stay of Less than One Year

The Deck Is Stacked

President Obama stated that it is the responsibility of US businesses to provide jobs and decent wages for the American worker.  Here is where the GOP and Democrats diverge.  The GOP does not believe that there is any responsibility on business. PERIOD.  The GOP believes that the fruits of the free market will magically filter down to the American worker.  That somehow, Joe Public on Main Street is going share in the prosperity of King John and his cronies.   That is what King John and the GOP would like you to believe.  That you have a chance...when in reality the deck is stacked.    

American Business Responsibility

Even the King Has A Weakness

King John rules with an iron fist so when EPA employees talked to the media, he overreacted and called EPA employees to Columbus to lecture them about not talking to the media during his rule.  A temper and snap judgment is his weakness.  The more he is attacked, and told that can't do what he wants to do, the more prone to bad decisions and poorly worded and timed statements.  Keep him on the defensive.  King John also speaks in general terms about solutions to problems but often gets frustrated when he is told you can't do that. 

http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/02/03/governor-kasichs-lecture-to-ohio-epa-employees-cost-taxpayers-over-5000/

The Iron Rule of King John

Now, I have found out if any state representative or senator wants to visit a state prison they have to get approval from the governor's office to do so.  What's he afraid of?  I believe King John does not want any of the legislature to find out that state employees are living, breathing people and NOT faceless bureaucrats. I have never heard of any governor telling any elected official they have to get permission from his office.  King John rules supreme!

King John Rides The Turnpike

This time the circuit riding minister of capitalism is advocating the sale of the Ohio Turnpike.  He wants to sell off the turnpike to pay for tax cuts.  Never-mind that the budget deficit is $8 billion dollars already.   Every day he seems to come up with more hair brained schemes.  What's next, the ACME Anvil company gets a tax break to relocate to this state?

Why Do Conservatives Want To Bust Unions?

"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.", Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

It's simple.  Money.

They really believe that theirs is a God given right to make a profit.  And anyone who gets in the way of that is an enemy.  Conservatives make this illogical assumption that if the economy is left alone unfettered by government interference, then everyone makes out. Time and time again, greed keeps the wealth from getting to the masses. 

If we assume that man is born into sin, then we must assume that, since business and corporations consist of flawed humans, that corporate and business interests are pre-determined towards greed.  If left unchecked the wealth will concentrate in the hands of a few at the expense of the many.

Labor unions are a check on the sinful nature of commerce by demanding a fair share of the profits.  Conservatives view labor unions are interfering with the accumulation of wealth.  So just like any other drain on the bottom line, they must go.  It is not a philosophical argument.  It is purely money.  Anyone that believes otherwise is either ignorant or willfully submitting to the unfettered capitalism arguments in a hopes of attracting wealth for themselves.

"Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man." Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  

Republican Racism

Let's face it.  Republicans have no interest in minority hiring.  Republicans are the party of white male money.  Their actions are rooted in a subconscious racism born out of the privileged class ingrained attitude of superiority.  In other words, they just think they are better than everyone else.   It could not made clearer than King John's "I don't need you people" comment.   Republicans are a party of hate.

http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/02/01/the-ohio-republican-party-issues-most-ironic-black-history-month-press-release-ever/

The Have & Have Nots

I once asked a state senator who was a Democrat what was the difference between Republicans and Democrats.  He replied without hesitation, "Republicans stand for the haves, and the Democrats stand for the have nots."  I did not want to believe this but I have found this to be true over time. 

The greatest trick the Republicans ever pulled is making the working class voters believe they are part of the "haves".  No one likes to believe they have been hoodwinked.  No one likes to believe they fell for a con.  But that is exactly what has happened in Ohio.  The Republican machine is maximized for victory no matter what the costs.  They will say anything to get elected.  Once they are in, they're in, and there is nothing you can about except become part of the loyal opposition.

Make no mistake about it, King John is all about the haves.  His business cronies are expecting and getting a windfall from his ascension.  His pure as botulism motivation is that Ohio companies make a profit.  Now if the average working man or woman happens to make a living due this unholy arrangement, then that is OK with King John.  But nothing can stand in the way of the God almighty dollar.  Not righteousness of pleas from the working class nor cries for justice from the down trodden, will persuade the haves of their self perceived God given right to make money.  


So don't cry about the mistakes you've made.  Get off your working class rear end and oppose the reign of King John.