the facts might be saying something else. vice-president joe biden claiming that the white house is all about helping the private sector, but did you catch where the veep was making that speech, in front of members of the united auto workers in toledo, ohio. just another stop in a recent white house tour of union shops. here is something else that won t stop. the growing mountain of government regulation and major ones since the president took office, costing the economy more than 46 billion dollars a year, according to one conservative group. it seems more like the private sector is taking a public flogging. and charles payne, what do you think. they are he taking an economic flogging, a verbal flogging and dodd frank, obamacare and nlrb yet. it s amazing, the only reason they re keeping the private sector afloat is so that they can loot the private sector for biden to say that is
hundred job and odd place to take a victory lap. a hundred jobs. at the same time you have a caterpillar adding 1400 jobs in a right to work state like georgia, possibly nonunion jobs and we ll have to wait and see about that, but many people, many democrats will tell you that the only kind of good job is a union job. and certainly, the democrats in an election year need to cash and the clout of unions, need more union jobs in the private sector in this country in order to fund those campaigns. now and years to come. yeah, ben, the president wants to be a cheerleader for jobs, that s great, but only union shops. what s wrong with other american workers? well, the thing is, union jobs are jobs whose dues go directly to the democratic party. so of course, he s going to like unions, unions, by the way are a great things. i m a member of three unions. thank you. and i love being in unions, i love being in my unions. but, i have to say, it s very hard on people who are not in the
kasich made it his priority to go after union rights and the people of ohio broadly speaking did not like that at all. the state hated that idea, in fact, again. see, the last time ohio voted on union rights was in 1958. republicans back then wanted to outlaw union shops and proposed a constitutional amendment which they put before the state s voters. ohio voters rejected the republicans big union busting idea back then hugely and in the process they replaced the republican governor with a democratic governor. they gave democrats both houses of the state legislature and gave democrats every statewide office other than the secretary of state. now, we re looking at a degree of disapproval like that again just 33% of ohioans say they are with kasich and the republicans on stripping union rights. this is 2011, not 1958. we are in the post-citizens united world. where a vulnerable, unpopular republican governor with a vulnerable, unpopular agenda doesn t resign himself to defeat, try to co
i would put it differently. if you look at the history of incoming quality, in the 1920s, we had inequality. then the crash, then the war. we moved much closer to income equality. we had manufacturing base, union shops. tax policies that were different. starting in the reagan era, you see the spread. in 1975, the top tenth of a percent of earners had 2.5% of the nation s income. by 2008, they quadrupled. if you look at the top, all 1%, it s more dramatic. this is about the shareholder economy. that is a problem. we think we want to share the knock si. look at us. who is supposed to be governing
union shops with a constitutional amendment that they put before the state s voters. they were just going to roll back union rights. guess what happened. ohio voters not only rejected the republicans big union-busting idea, they rejected it by a 2-1 margin. they overwhelmingly opposed the republican-led efforts to strip union rights. they also replaced the republican governor with a democratic one. and in that same election they gave democrats both houses of the state legislature and every statewide office outside of the courts and every single statewide office except for the secretary of state. good job, republicans. not only did your union-busting referendum get absolutely trounced, you got trounced, too. you got voted out of power for having tried it. the anti-union measure that ohio republicans wanted back then is not exactly the same thing as what s being proposed now, but it is roughly the same size, same shaped punch aimed directly at the middle class. and the great majority of