mikestrek
Well-Known Member
WOW! I guess I have no control over that. Bottom line is this is "SCRATCH" website. I hope this isn't Yet another way to supress the vote. okay. well, I'll keep an eye on that in here.
Teamsters Endorse OBAMA
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mikestrek
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I can't imagine being in Bush's shoes. He must be hiding out from not only Mccain but the shame he must feel for all this damage.Hot off the press: Bush and
his new O dollar bill,
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
What shame? He is looking forward to his post-Presidential oil residual income and spending time on the Board of Directors for a major oil company.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Quote:
Originally Posted by mikestrek
WOW! I guess I have no control over that.
The first thing we agree on.
well, I'll keep an eye on that in here.
You do that. Let us know how it goes.
Over9Five,
The best thing to do with these two jerks is to ignore them.
You been around jerky teenagers before, right?
Luckily, they are on my ignore list and I am not exposed to them.
Originally Posted by mikestrek
WOW! I guess I have no control over that.
The first thing we agree on.
well, I'll keep an eye on that in here.
You do that. Let us know how it goes.
Over9Five,
The best thing to do with these two jerks is to ignore them.
You been around jerky teenagers before, right?
Luckily, they are on my ignore list and I am not exposed to them.
tieguy
Banned
mikestrek
Well-Known Member
Well, This doesn't make this forum that much fun if you have a great topic and it gets moved from where everyone can view it. So if I say something negative about Bush or McCain is it going to be deleted? Give me a break. Is this forum for Republicans only?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I hope not because it if is I have spent a year here for nothing. Yes, I am a registered Democrat but I vote the person, not the party, whether on the local, state, or national level, irregardless of what the almighty Union asks me to do. I actually like the idea presented earlier either on this thread or another endorsing the idea of voting for a split ticket. 31 days and threads like these will go the way of the 705/710 contract dispute threads.
I guess I could scan and post my IBT card from the late 70s, but I could really care less if some people don't agree with what I believe. As a Moderator, I am supposed to move threads that are posted in the wrong forum to where they belong. If you don't know the difference between a UPS topic and a political topic, then I feel sorry for you. I left a redirect in the UPS Discussion's Forum that links to this Forum. No censuring here, you keep your arguments clean and they stay.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Here in Georgia, we do not have to register as a Democrat, Republican or Independent like you do in NY. There were a lot of Republicans in Georgia voting in the primaries for Obama because they thought he was weaker than Hillary...guess that did not work.
705red
Browncafe Steward
I have seen this first hand, alot of upsers take for granted what they have and dont care about the union, unless of course they are in trouble. Lets just think for a minute on what we do have that the teamsters and unions in general have gotten for us.
The 8 hour work day, 40 hour work week, overtime pay, paid holidays, paid vacations, medical benefits, retirement plans, job securities and the list goes on. People today take this for granted and dont realize that sacrafices were made by others to give us these wonderful benefits.
In 1997 a package driver was just under $20 an hour, today we are at $28 plus and will be over $32 in 2013. None of this came without a struggle for both of us, ups and the teamster employees that work for ups.
This is not a rant saying that you have to vote for obama or mccain because the teamsters endorsed obama. Im just sick of reading these posts were people are throwing low blows at each other and acting imature.
The fact is that the majority of us are teamster employees and we should take some pride in being teamsters, i understand that the teamsters are far from perfect as a whole. But as teamster employees at ups nothing has ever been force feed to us, we have had a chance to vote on our contracts and they have been passed by a majority rule.
Obama would be better for the whole labor movement than mccain, imho.
Mccain will not let the teamsters close to fedex while obama would just as an example.
God help the poor working american that has to work two jobs to pay their bills and put food on the table for their kids while all along these wall street bankers give themselves million dollar bonuses! And now you want to tax people making $8 an hour more to help these same millionaires but you want to hold them back from earning a respectable wage!
And in your view obama is bad for this country! If this is why you are going to vote for any canidate you should do yourself a favor and not vote!
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Don't worry about it Scratch. These two have been obnoxious jerks on this thread all weekend. The rest of us appreciate the effort you and the other Moderators put forth to keep this site organized and ensure a minimal level of civility from members.
mikestrek
Well-Known Member
SCRATCH, I'll take that as a YES. You were offended by the Obama endorsement. Amazing, I was telling the guys at work I found a great forum to discuss UPS. However, most guys at our center are Democrats. I guess I'll have to get back with them and tell them We're not wanted here. and who said I didn't keep any of my comments clean.
Well, I guess it was nice nowing you guys. I'm not going to stay in a forum where they try to suppress the Democrat Vote.
I'll tell the guys at work this is the Rah, Rah, Rah Republican show.
That sucks, You guys started out cool.
MY LAST POST HERE.
BE GOOD ALL
MIKE
UPS Lifer
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Aloha! Bye! Bye! Chow! Bon Voyage!
and my favorite.... Don't let the door kick ya in the arse!
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Originally Posted by mikestrek
MY LAST POST HERE.
BE GOOD ALL
MIKE
And who said IGNORANCE is not bliss! What a goober!!! FOTFLMAO
I guess Scratch was right, we should feel sorry for Mike.
MY LAST POST HERE.
BE GOOD ALL
MIKE
Aloha! Bye! Bye! Chow! Bon Voyage!
and my favorite.... Don't let the door kick ya in the arse!
And who said IGNORANCE is not bliss! What a goober!!! FOTFLMAO
I guess Scratch was right, we should feel sorry for Mike.
I have never deleted a post because I disagreed with someone else's point of view. And not all of the Mods vote Republican, four of them have never mentioned who they prefer. I consider myself a conservative Independant, I have never joined or donated one cent to any political party. I am not a great McCain fan either, I just think he is a slight improvement over a socialist who wants to expand an inefficient government that will just waste more of my tax money. I work hard for my money and I don't like to see a bloated government waste it. This is a discussion board, and all people are welcome to post their views. All I have done is move a thread where it belongs, sorry if the fact that a lot of Teamsters are not happy with OBama and his views bothers anybody. And this is my last post on this thread.
