Tag Archives: Los Angeles

Mar 16 2009

Wage Rules Attached To Stimulus Funds Mean Fewer Jobs (81% of Workers Against Unions)

State governments that contract jobs paid for with stimulus money will be required to pay workers on construction projects union wages rather than market rates good news for workers but good news for not as many of them.

Higher costs per project mean fewer projects completed.

Los Angeles County officials who received $8 million in Community Development Block Grant money to weatherize homes for low-income people said they typically bid the job low and pay about $15 an hour for a worker to caulk windows. However, under union scale, that job pays $25 an hour and $5 in benefits, so instead of repairing 100 homes, they might do 50 homes for the same price.

Elsewhere, the union wage for a plumber in Long Island is $45 an hour, the market rate is $30. In Las Vegas, the Davis-Bacon wage for a glass worker is $57 an hour, a job the Nevada State Housing division currently pays $15 to do. Read More

Obama could care less about what the people of America wants.

81 Percent of Workers Against Unions

A Rasmussen Reports survey finds 81 percent of non-union workers do not want union representation. That compares to just 9 percent of workers who say they do want to join a union.

Even among workers whose employers are laying off employees, interest in joining a union is low: Only 9 percent want to be members of a union.Read More

These Obama projects aren’t making enough jobs to start lowering the number of unemployment, and when the money runs out what then? Has anyone seen any of the Obama construction projects emblems signs up in their area of the country? I sure have not, but maybe if I ran down to the welfare office I would see a Obama project sign on the door! Obama does not seem to care what the people want..he keeps on his same path to bankrupting America!

LINKS:

(1) Obama-bots…activate! Form of…a “Pledge Project Canvass!”

Jan 1 2009

Breaking Update 02 Dec – Comedienne Roseanne Barr called Israel a “NAZI state”

Roseanne Barr: Destruction of Jews in Israel Assured by Gaza Attacks

The entire disgraceful rant is below the fold for those that can stand it (h/t Mere Rhetoric):

I said Israel will attack any boat carrying doctors and medical supplies–they have turned away the red cross already and all medical and food assistance. Israel is a NAZI state. The Jewish Soul is being tortured in Israel. The destruction of the jews in Israel has been assured with this inhuman attack on civilians in gaza. Hamas is the street gangs—this is equivilent to los angeles attacking and launching war on the people of watts to attempt to kill the bloods and the crips.

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UPDATE: 02 JAN

Breaking: Islamist Rockets Can Now Reach Israeli Nuke Facilities

There were growing fears in Israel last night that Hamas missiles could threaten its top-secret nuclear facility at Dimona.

Rocket attacks from Gaza have forced Israelis to flee in ever greater numbers and military chiefs have been shaken by the size and sophistication of the militant group’s arsenal.

Israeli officials say that Hamas has also acquired dozens of Iranian-made Fajr-3 missiles with an even longer range.

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UPDATE 02 DEC
Ladies of Hamas Vow To Blow Themselves Up Among the “Apes and Pigs” On National TV (Video)
On Tuesday, December 30, 2008, a group of Hamas women, with their Kalashnikovs, vowed to become “Martyrdom-Seekers” and blow themselves up among “the Apes and Pigs” in Israel.
And, they really wonder why the borders are closed?
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Many of the far left with loose nuts agree with Roseanne Barr!  There are some very sick people in this country.  What do you think of what she called  Israel?  

LINKS:

(1) Hey, who’s bitter, clingy, and racist now?

By Michelle Malkin

Dec 8 2008

Mayors Get in Line for U.S. Funds

Big-city mayors will arrive on Capitol Hill Monday to lobby for more federal spending to be funneled to urban areas that they say drive the country’s economic engine.

A delegation of mayors, including Michael Bloomberg of New York and Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, plans to ask the federal government to distribute funds directly to cities instead of going through state governments. The group is set to present a list of more than 4,600 infrastructure projects that they say are “ready to go.”

A delegation of mayors, including Michael Bloomberg of New York and Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, plans to ask the federal government to distribute funds directly to cities instead of going through state governments. The group is set to present a list of more than 4,600 infrastructure projects that they say are “ready to go.”

SOURCE: WSJ

What will these handouts be called? Its no other than earmarks! The only different is its earmarks that Obama and his pals want! Tax and Spend democrats is what they’re called!