Andy Stern on Deficit Commission Panel

[Magox]

Good news everyone, Andy Stern is going to help our country with the single largest looming threat this country will face moving forward.

 

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...ggODI&pos=9

 

The president also appointed Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, and former Young & Rubicam Brands CEO Ann Fudge for the panel, to serve on the panel.

 

“I am proud that these distinguished individuals have agreed to work to build a bipartisan consensus to put America on the path toward fiscal reform and responsibility,” Obama said in a statement announcing the appointments. “I know they’ll take up their work with the sense of integrity and strength of commitment that the American people deserve.”

[Alaska Darin]

Pretty poor choices all the way around but that's expected.

 

I do love the "they're going to consider changes to Social Security". Gee, Dems. I thought there wasn't anything wrong with it. Or was that just the last 8 years? [/rhetorical]

 

A new tax is JUST what the economy needs. That's some more of the change we were desperately pining for.

 

[Magox]

Pretty poor choices all the way around but that's expected.

 

I do love the "they're going to consider changes to Social Security". Gee, Dems. I thought there wasn't anything wrong with it. Or was that just the last 8 years? [/rhetorical]

 

A new tax is JUST what the economy needs. That's some more of the change we were desperately pining for.

 

Andy Stern was put on this panel for a couple reasons, which was to assuage the outrage and concerns from the liberals because of the selection of Alan Simpson as Co-Chairman of the commission, and to serve as a counterweight to any of the deficit hawks on the panel.

 

Which basically means that this panel will achieve nothing. You will have the Andy Sterns who will never and I mean never agree to reforming Medicare and S.S and spending cuts in a meaningful way, and will only propose tax increases to help pay for their "progressive" agenda, and then you will have the people who are sincere to reducing the deficit such as Alan Simpson and the end result will be NADA, Zip, Zilch...

[Doc]

Will Stern and Fudge be known as the "deficit czars?"

[IDBillzFan]

Got a laugh the other day when someone referred to SEIU as "The Purple People Beaters."

 

Putting Stern on a deficit commission only underscores how deeply concerned the administration is with the deficit.

[DC Tom]

Got a laugh the other day when someone referred to SEIU as "The Purple People Beaters."

 

Putting Stern on a deficit commission only underscores how deeply concerned the administration is with the deficit.

 

Having a deficit commission to begin with is a friggin' joke. Spending lots of money to study the a problem to which there's only one solution: STOP SPENDING SO MUCH !@#$ING MONEY!!!!

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Andy Stern was put on this panel for a couple reasons, which was to assuage the outrage and concerns from the liberals because of the selection of Alan Simpson as Co-Chairman of the commission, and to serve as a counterweight to any of the deficit hawks on the panel.

 

Which basically means that this panel will achieve nothing. You will have the Andy Sterns who will never and I mean never agree to reforming Medicare and S.S and spending cuts in a meaningful way, and will only propose tax increases to help pay for their "progressive" agenda, and then you will have the people who are sincere to reducing the deficit such as Alan Simpson and the end result will be NADA, Zip, Zilch...

 

Change you can believe in

[drnykterstein]

After the fact that Andy Stern is on the Deficit Commission Panel, There is not one accurate statement in this whole thread.

[Magox]

After the fact that Andy Stern is on the Deficit Commission Panel, There is not one accurate statement in this whole thread.

You should hang out with Big Cat and Hedd, you guys would make a snazzy trio.

 

But you are right though, regarding this comment on this thread.

 

Good news everyone, Andy Stern is going to help our country with the single largest looming threat this country will face moving forward.

[IDBillzFan]

After the fact that Andy Stern is on the Deficit Commission Panel, There is not one accurate statement in this whole thread.

There are two accurate statements in this thread: (1) in order to reduce the deficit, you must reducing spending; and (2) SEIU are most certainly the Purple People Beaters.

[DC Tom]

After the fact that Andy Stern is on the Deficit Commission Panel, There is not one accurate statement in this whole thread.

 

I don't know how you reach that conclusion. But then, you're so batshit !@#$ing stupid that none of us knows how you reach any of your conclusions.

[Magox]

I'm glad other people thought this was a riot.

 

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/839...e-from-business

 

President Barack Obama’s appointment of labor leader Andy Stern to a fiscal commission is drawing fire from business groups.

 

Business groups opposed to the card-check bill that has dominated fights between business and labor for more than a year railed against the decision to appoint Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

 

“Either the White House doesn’t read the newspaper or simply doesn’t care, but naming Andy Stern as a member of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility doesn’t pass the laugh test,” said Katie Packer, executive director of the Workforce Fairness Institute.

[Doc]

I'm glad other people thought this was a riot.

 

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/839...e-from-business

Good point. It should be the Packer-Fudge Deficit Commission Panel.

[IDBillzFan]

Good point. It should be the Packer-Fudge Deficit Commission Panel.

That was so close to being a great joke.

[Magox]

That was so close to being a great joke.

[Doc]

Doh! I reversed it!

[/dev/null]

After the fact that Andy Stern is on the Deficit Commission Panel, There is not one accurate statement in this whole thread.

What was inaccurate about my statement?

[Nanker]

It's obvious that President BO is giving a well-paying do-nothing position to one of his finest cronies.

Like that's never been done before, but holy jeepers. That guy makes my skin crawl.

[Doc]

We are SO screwed. Forget November of this year, November of 2012 can't get here fast enough.

[1billsfan]

Good news everyone, Andy Stern is going to help our country with the single largest looming threat this country will face moving forward.

 

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...ggODI&pos=9

 

This is outrageous. Let's stop sugar-coating it. The democrat party has become the communist party (they just can't admit it publically)...

 

Jarrett (closest advisor) = communist

Jones (green jobs czar) = communist

Dunn (communications director) = communist

Stern (person granted most visits with the president) = communist

Obama (communist mentor, advisors) = communist

 

Obama is for clearly pushing the agenda of the union worker. That's why he wants to take over the health care system (a necessary step towards unionizing 1/6th of the US economy), that's why he wants to tell people how to think and if they still don't agree basically call his detractors too stupid to understand his message, and that he knows best, and that he's ramming it through for their own good. If anyone believes that he actually cares about reducing the health care costs of the average American people then you are indeed the stupid one. Obama comes from the cesspool of Chicago politics, where there's always a hidden agenda behind the curtain.

 

With adding Andy Stern to that panel, Obama is doing the exact OPPOSITE of what needs to be done in terms of deficit reduction for the greater good of America's future generations. Specifically, what new New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is doing to the bloody murder screams of the union workers...

 

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/...ch_on_budg.html

 

"Let’s tell our citizens the truth—today—right now—about what failing to do strong reforms costs them.

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits -- a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment. Is that fair?

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. Is it “fair” for all of us and our children to have to pay for this excess?"

 

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/n...weeping_pe.html

 

"Despite a show of force from hundreds of protesting union workers, the state Senate today easily passed legislation that would dramatically change public employee pensions.

The changes, which now head to the Assembly, are on a fast track and have already been endorsed by Gov. Chris Christie — who has said he wants even stronger reforms. The three bills each passed in 36-0 votes.

“Those chants out there should really be cheers,” Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D-Union) said of the union members in purple and red shirts packing the Statehouse hallways. “We’re acting to save the future checks that these people are going to get. If we don’t take action now, there’s a very real likelihood ... that at some point we’re not going to be able to afford the pensions that they’ve been promised.”

 

Andy Stern was appointed to the deficit reduction panel by Obama???? Really???? Why doesn't he just cut to the chase and change the American flag to the hammer and sickle. The communists are going to get hammered in november. The thought of another three years of Obama is downright scary. The irony is that all of those young people who voted for him are going to be the ones left trying to pay off his four year pig out.

 

BTW, I used to be a democrat!