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Originally posted by MrTed:
My father and stepfather were union autoworkers till they retired. They were both laid off for weeks under Carter-a democrat. Then Ronnie popped the question, 'Are you better off now...?'
They were after he showed up.
I'm also a 'working man' (who that has a job isn't just because his collar is white?) and I supported republicans because my customers are people with money. Like I said earlier in this thread, if they have disposable income, I have essential income (I'm a house painter). The best times this country had seen in decades before the birth of the internet were during the Reagan years.

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Originally posted by MrTed:
My father and stepfather were union autoworkers till they retired. They were both laid off for weeks under Carter-a democrat. Then Ronnie popped the question, 'Are you better off now...?'
They were after he showed up.
I'm also a 'working man' (who that has a job isn't just because his collar is white?) and I supported republicans because my customers are people with money. Like I said earlier in this thread, if they have disposable income, I have essential income (I'm a house painter). The best times this country had seen in decades before the birth of the internet were during the Reagan years.

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Originally posted by Hoarddawg:

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Originally posted by MrTed:
My father and stepfather were union autoworkers till they retired. They were both laid off for weeks under Carter-a democrat. Then Ronnie popped the question, 'Are you better off now...?'
They were after he showed up.
I'm also a 'working man' (who that has a job isn't just because his collar is white?) and I supported republicans because my customers are people with money. Like I said earlier in this thread, if they have disposable income, I have essential income (I'm a house painter). The best times this country had seen in decades before the birth of the internet were during the Reagan years.

Laid off for WEEKS??? WEEKS??? Well, bein laid off for any amount of time is not good, but if it was just weeks, I don't think that I would get my undies in a bunch over a couple weeks. I have worked in the auto plants, and the UAW membership march to the beat of a different drum. I never seen so much republican propaganda in a union workplace. I can assure you, it is not that way in the construction unions. I have been laid off for WEEKS while a Democrat was in office before too, but it seems more common that I am laid off for many months (many times to the brink of exhausting unemployment benefits) when a Republican is in office. I never said I was never laid off while a Democrat was in office, just that work is more plentiful when they are in office. Maybe just a coinky-dink, but our out of work list has been shrinking the past couple months, is it a coinky-dink, or is there something to this whole Democrat in the White House...You believe what you want to, I'm gonna go with the track record...By the way, when ole Ronny was Prez...my father worked in his jurisdiction approximately one and a half years during that eight year stretch, the rest of the time he was either unemployed, or working in another state. Ask the Air Traffic Controllers how good Reagan was to unions...

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Originally posted by MrTed:
the auto workers ancestors served a good purpose, their descendants however ran the Ford Motor Company out of Lorain, Ohio cause they couldn't afford to operate there any more.

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Originally posted by WolfpackBrownsfan:

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...whenever one Party has theyseffs more'n 60 Senators an' a Majority in the House...

I agree with this too. I'm afraid of either party having too much power. As for the rest of the posts on here, can't say I agree with them all but at least they give you an idea about the sides.