Happy Labor Day: Ward is no friend of working families
Happy Labor Day. It’s fitting that we celebrate organized labor that brought us such things as the 40-hour week, weekends, decent pay and benefits and simply basic workplace safety protections.
Organized labor helped create the middle class that most of us belong to, but there is an assault on both labor and the middle class. I think it is fitting to bring you some of Chris Ward’s worst votes against working families on this holiday, and we should truly reflect what this day is celebrating and remembering.
He voted against a plan that would increase unemployment benefits to 52 weeks, from the current 26 (HB 5438, RC 0686, 12/01/05, Espinoza Amendment).
He voted against a plan that would increase unemployment protections for families of military personnel. (HB 4415, Spade Amendment, RC 0027, 03/09/05). So much for supporting the troops.
He voted to give tax breaks to companies that outsource our good paying jobs to other states and countries. (Angerer Amendment HB 4982, RC 0728, 12/07/05).
He voted to give corporations tax breaks even when they violate federal pension laws (HB 4982, Miller Amendment, RC 0730, 12/07/05).
posted by Communications guru @ 3:10 PM
6 Comments:
So, to sum up your post, Chris Ward voted in favor of corporations and against working Americans and soldiers.
Compassionate conservatism in action.
Very nice summation.
Unemployment is a tax on citizens and businesses to keep lazy people sitting on their ...seniority - for whatever good that does.
Soldiers, like teachers, are not royalty. They chose their line of work, I thank them for their service and I pay them with my tax dollars. But this does not give them carte blache to special treatment either.
Democrats are ignorant if they think businesses ever pay taxes in the first place. Note to Demo-dummies - citizens pay all taxes. Businesses simply add the cost of the tax to the product. IF - like in Michigan's case - the taxes are too high to pass on, the business closes or moves.
Mike, your campaign is the same old tired class welfare strategy that plays to the envy filled, the jar is always half-empty crowd that defines liberals.
By the way, you are wrong. You will always be wrong thinking like a liberal.
Are you honestly telling me that people would rather collect unemployment that work? That’s ridiculous. I have been unemployed in the past, and it sucks, plain and simple, and I can guarantee it was not fun and I hated every minute of it.
Certainly, no one has ever said soldiers are royalty, and from someone who was at least a sailor, we are not treated like royalty. The amendment in question was about basic fairness. It’s so ironic that if we question the misguided folly in Iraq we don’t support the troops, but when we try and do something that actually makes their lives a little less difficult and gives them some relief we are communist traitors treating them like royalty. That is absurd. What does “supporting the troops mean to you?”
Of course some businesses don’t pay taxes. That’s called offshoring and outsourcing, and Mike is combating that with his jobs plan. However, for the most part businesses are good corporate citizens who support the community they are located in and understand that paying taxes is paying for the services they use and consume, and that taxes are an investment that makes this country the greatest place in the world to live in.
The rest of your preposterous post doesn’t warrant a response, and any response would be hard to rise above the simple uniformed and childish name-calling you engage in.
Well, we didn’t hear back from your “hero” because he couldn’t back up any of his ridiculous and stupid claims. I kind of doubt we will.
He’s just a troll that spouts off ignorant crap, and he disappears when he actually has to defend it and back it up and crawls back under the rock. But we welcome trolls here, and we look forward to ole Hank making a fool of himself again.
I didn't call anyone a name.
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