AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY--IMPORTANT MESSAGE!

Meet Cal Thomas and Michelle Malkin in NC!

Our "Obama's Failing Agenda" bus tour begins on Monday, September 3 (Labor Day) and winds across the state through Thursday, September 6.


Will we see you along the way? Join us at the town closest to you!

Obama hopes North Carolinians don’t remember how his failing policies have increased unemployment, hiked taxes, and saddled our economy with tremendous debt and his disastrous health care law. But we will be going from town to town to encourage everyone to remember—signing petitions and phone banking all along the way!

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(Events are free of charge but we would like to know how many people to expect.)

Monday September 3rd

Charlotte -- Monday, Sept. 3 -- 2:30-7:00 pm -- Michelle Malkin will join us for a Labor Day Celebration of American Excellence at the SMS Atrium. The event will feature entertainment and activities for the young and old including beach music with the Craig Woolard Band. There will be great food, volleyball, basketball, mini golf, and arcade style games. There will also be opportunities for concerned citizens to put grassroots pressure on the President by signing our petition and participating in the "Freedom Phones" phone banking system.  Click here to register for the Labor Day celebration!

The “Obama’s Failing Agenda” bus will also roll into other towns on our route to educate, motivate and activate-- discussing Obama’s many failing policies. These will be short but powerful rallies to engage citizens and the local media on the issues, and encourage petition-signing and phone banking.

Tuesday, September 4

Lincolnton 7:30 am Lincolnton Cultural Center, 403 E. Main Street. Coffee and doughnuts.

Gastonia 9:30 am Best Buy, 3054 E. Franklin Boulevard.

Hendersonville 12:30 pm Patton Park, Large Pavilion, 114 E. Clairmont Drive.

Candler/Asheville area 2:00 pm Cruizers Diner, 1320 Smoky Park Highway, Candler 28715.

Hickory – Tuesday, Sept. 4 – 7:30-9:00 pm Fox News Commentator Cal Thomas will join us for a Town Hall at the Hickory Convention Center. Doors open at 5:00 pm for free supper, phone banking, and petition signing.

Wednesday, September 5

Statesville 9:00 am Johnson’s Parts and Supply, 1112 Shelton Avenue.

Salisbury 10:45 am Tilley’s Harley Davidson, 653 Bendix Drive.

Lexington 12:15 pm Schell Bail Bonds, 103 West Center Street.

Asheboro 2:00 pm Bicentennial Park, 135 Sunset Avenue.

Greensboro – Wednesday, Sept. 5 – 7:30-9:00 pm – Fox News Commentator Cal Thomas will join us for a Town Hall at the Greensboro Coliseum Pavilion. Doors open at 5:00 pm for free supper, phone banking and petition-signing.

Thursday, September 6

Burlington 8:45 am Down Home Harley Davidson, 2215 Hanford Road.

Sanford 11:00 am Sanford Honda Select, 2910 South Horner Boulevard.

Southern Pines 12:45 pm Pine Crest Plaza, 1090 West Morganton Road.

Fayetteville 2:45 pm The Climbing Place, 436 West Russell Street.

Raleigh -- Thursday, Sept. 6 – 7:30-9:00 pm – Michelle Malkin will join us for a Town Hall at the Kerr Scott Building at the State Fairgrounds. Doors Open at 5:00 P.M.

Please help us send a loud and clear message that we believe Obama’s policies are failing America!  IF YOU PLAN TO MEET OBAMA’S FAILING AGENDA BUS TOUR AT ANY OF THESE EVENTS REGISTER HERE!

(Events are free of charge but we would like to know how many people to expect.)

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‘Let’s Take These Son Of Bitches Out’: Teamsters President Hoffa Calls for War on Tea Party at Obama Labor Day Event

President Obama had a fiery warm up act before his Labor Day speech in Detroit.


Here’s Fox News on the speech by Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa:

The rhetoric coming from speakers at the event was already heated before Hoffa took the stage. Hoffa then declared there’s a “war on workers” and vowed that organized labor would “remember in November” which lawmakers were opposing the president’s agenda.

“We’ve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face — a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party,” he said. “And there’s only one way to beat and win that war — the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.”

Hoffa called on workers to get involved in opposing Tea Party-aligned lawmakers next November.

“President Obama, this is your army, we are ready to march,” Hoffa said. “But everybody here’s got to vote. If we go back, and keep the eye on the prize, let’s take these sons of bitches out.”

OBAMA...the great unifier!
CONTINUED:  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/lets-take-these-son-of-bitches-out-teamster-president-hoffa-calls-for-war-on-tea-party-at-obama-labor-day-event/

A Labor of Love - Opinion - PatriotPost.US

A Labor of Love - Opinion - PatriotPost.US

Morning Bell:

Labor Day Has Become Government Day

This Labor Day marks a milestone in the history of the U.S. union movement. It is the first Labor Day on which a majority of union members in United States work for the government. In January the Department of Labor reported that union membership in government has overtaken that in the private sector. Three times as many union members work in the Post Office as in the entire domestic auto industry. The face of the union movement is not a worker on the assembly line but a clerk at the DMV.


This is a dramatic shift for the union movement. The early trade unionists did not believe that unions had a place in government. They believed the purpose of unions was to redistribute business profits from owners to workers … and the government makes no profits. Not until the 1960s did unionizing government employees become widespread. Now government employees make up 52 percent of all union members.

So what? Why should Americans care if unions are now dominated by workers who get their paychecks from governments, instead of workers who get their paychecks from private firms? There’s one simple reason: private firms face competition; governments don’t.


Collective bargaining, the anti-trust exemption at the heart the labor movement’s power, was created to help workers seize their “fair share” of business profits. But if a union ends up extracting a contract from a private firm that eats up too much of the profits, then that firm will be unable to reinvest those resources and will lose out to competitors. But when a union extracts a generous contract from a government, there is no check on that spending. Instead of being forced out by more efficient competitors, the government just raises taxes.

The shift from private to public sector has fundamentally changed organized labor’s priorities. Unions used to support policies that would help their private sector employers grow. But now that they are largely dependent on the government, the only growth that unions are interested in is the growth of government. So unions push for tax increases across the country. Consider recent union activism:

•Illinois. Unions want state lawmakers to increase the state income tax from 3 percent to 5 percent and to expand the sales tax to cover some services. In April 2010 they organized rallies of government workers outside the state capitol shouting “Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!” At that rally, a government union member was caught on camera chanting “Where’s the money?” and “Give up the bucks!”


•Montana. The Montana teachers union openly sees itself as a supporter of tax and spend politics. Its President boasts, “Were it not for us almost any one of the … anti-tax and spend ballot issues proposed in the last 25 years would have passed.”


•New Mexico. Unions lobbied the state’s legislature to raise taxes to deal with its budget deficit. The union got its wish, but it was not the wealthy who paid – the legislature imposed a 2 percent sales tax on food.


•Washington state. Washington state has no income tax, and unions want to change that. They have placed an initiative on the November ballot creating a state income tax and are among the top donors to the campaign to pass it.


Government unions are the backbone of the Obama dependency economy. Taxpayers should not have to subsidize union campaigns, much less those that call for tax increases. At the very least Congress should end the automatic payroll deduction of union dues.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/06/morning-bell-labor-day-has-become-government-day/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning+Bell