What are the things that president obama says that is disappointing, he say, number one, im not after people who are just getting marry. Decent care what people read in the library. I only want to go after terrorists. Nobody can prove there has been abuses of the power. I say, all this is being done in secret. How too you know if there were abuses. Number two, i think history shows us that when you have this much power, there will be abuse, and we have already had some of the snowden documents show that the fisa court has heard a lot of complaints about the nsa going beyond what was allowed to do even though they id like to think if i were president i would remember that the president s oath is to support and defend the constitution. I understand that its a difficult position. Next call for susan herman. Margaret. Florida. Good ahead with your question or comment. Im so glad to hear you and, i will get you book. Im such a supporter. Ever since 50 years ago, and the last 50 years, ive w
Operation to undermine alqaeda. I dont know if you guys have read this, its a plan thats going to, basically, destroy the recruiting, its going to disrupt their operations, and its going to bankrupt the organization. Its actually a very simple plan. You see, the cias going to hire the Obama White House to design the alqaeda web site. [laughter] [applause] well, i dont need to tell this audience that washington, d. C. And, in fact, the entire country has changed over the last four years. But we dont have to simply cite our belief in our philosophy as to whats going on in our country. The world knows. The world has observed. And let me just give you two very authoritative sources that confirm the fact that things are increasingly not right in our Nations Capital. The first one is the world bank which does a study every year on international competitiveness. The second one is a Organization Called the World Economic forum which meets in davos, switzerland, which also puts out an annual su
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Labor unions spent around $1.8 billion on “political activities and lobbying” during the 2020 election cycle, a study published last Friday by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) concluded.
The vast majority of funds, more than $1.4 billion, came from the general treasuries of private sector unions while the remaining funds came from public sector unions and union political action committees (PACs), according to the study.
Funds raised by private sector unions are publicly disclosed to the Department of Labor, and researchers compiled all Form LM-2 disclosure reports for the filing years of 2019 and 2020. A significant source of funding comes from union dues and fees collected from workers in states without right-to-work laws who would otherwise be fired for refusing to pay.