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	<title>Comments on: Giving Thanks for the Secret Ballot</title>
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		<title>By: Jerry from Chicago</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/25/giving-thanks-for-the-secret-ballot/#comment-71970</link>
		<dc:creator>Jerry from Chicago</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If Obama can change the laws to remove the right to secret ballots for union elections, how long will it be before he does the same for political elections? 
 
Just like in Philadelphia, he can have a squad of Black Panthers with billy clubs and night sticks looking over your shoulder to make sure you &quot;vote right&quot;. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Obama can change the laws to remove the right to secret ballots for union elections, how long will it be before he does the same for political elections?</p>
<p>Just like in Philadelphia, he can have a squad of Black Panthers with billy clubs and night sticks looking over your shoulder to make sure you &quot;vote right&quot;.</p>
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		<title>By: Dennis Hulse, Palmer</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/25/giving-thanks-for-the-secret-ballot/#comment-71370</link>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Hulse, Palmer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with you Roger S.  Those who don&#039;t learn the lessons of history will repeat them.  My grand father in the 50&#039;s used to tell me &quot;...as it is in small circles so it is in big&quot; and chuckle every time he said that.  He was a unionist through and through.  Thanks to Margret Thatcher she fixed up Britain in the 80&#039;s followed by Reagan in America after her and Howard in the 90&#039;s in Australia after them. Unionism goes with Communism, Islamism and all the other ..ism&#039;s that are power and control centric in their nature. If you loose the secret ballot getting it back will be costly in more ways than one for generations to come. Trust is not given, it is earned by deeds of the past in both small circles and big, that is the lesson of history.   Dennis Hulse </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with you Roger S.  Those who don&#039;t learn the lessons of history will repeat them.  My grand father in the 50&#039;s used to tell me &quot;&#8230;as it is in small circles so it is in big&quot; and chuckle every time he said that.  He was a unionist through and through.  Thanks to Margret Thatcher she fixed up Britain in the 80&#039;s followed by Reagan in America after her and Howard in the 90&#039;s in Australia after them. Unionism goes with Communism, Islamism and all the other ..ism&#039;s that are power and control centric in their nature. If you loose the secret ballot getting it back will be costly in more ways than one for generations to come. Trust is not given, it is earned by deeds of the past in both small circles and big, that is the lesson of history.   Dennis Hulse</p>
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		<title>By: Ross writes from Bra</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/25/giving-thanks-for-the-secret-ballot/#comment-71322</link>
		<dc:creator>Ross writes from Bra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unions are the protectors of the lazy, long-term incompetent, and bullies. They demand unconditional loyalty from their members using intimidation and violents to enforce that loyalty. Unions are the teachers of mediocrity, laziness, and termite mentality. 
 
Teacher Unions are the most insidious and hideous of the lot, they deny our children the &quot;best of the best&quot; teachers and have destroyed millions of opportunities for the best and brightest in our schools to excell for three decades or more.  
 
Then there&#039;s the government employee unions; just by the structure of governments, unions will flourish like noxious weed, destroying by stealth and concealment in the tangled vines of government bureauacy, waste, abuse, and corruption. 
 
I know there are millions of union members who are forced by state law, local intimidation, or job opportunities to join unions, especially teachers. What few rights you have as a union member, the secret ballot is the most important. It is the only tool you have to fight the corruption, bullying, and wastefulness of your dues by union bosses.  
 
Yes, thank God for that this Thanksgiving! </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unions are the protectors of the lazy, long-term incompetent, and bullies. They demand unconditional loyalty from their members using intimidation and violents to enforce that loyalty. Unions are the teachers of mediocrity, laziness, and termite mentality.</p>
<p>Teacher Unions are the most insidious and hideous of the lot, they deny our children the &quot;best of the best&quot; teachers and have destroyed millions of opportunities for the best and brightest in our schools to excell for three decades or more. </p>
<p>Then there&#039;s the government employee unions; just by the structure of governments, unions will flourish like noxious weed, destroying by stealth and concealment in the tangled vines of government bureauacy, waste, abuse, and corruption.</p>
<p>I know there are millions of union members who are forced by state law, local intimidation, or job opportunities to join unions, especially teachers. What few rights you have as a union member, the secret ballot is the most important. It is the only tool you have to fight the corruption, bullying, and wastefulness of your dues by union bosses. </p>
<p>Yes, thank God for that this Thanksgiving!</p>
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		<title>By: cadli lv.</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/25/giving-thanks-for-the-secret-ballot/#comment-71315</link>
		<dc:creator>cadli lv.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>THis is one more Obama,s favorite agenda to secure the 2012 elections for himself and Democratic[?] party. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THis is one more Obama,s favorite agenda to secure the 2012 elections for himself and Democratic[?] party.</p>
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		<title>By: Tim Az</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tim Az</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I will use Mao-Bama&#039;s words. If a union member brings a knife then you must bring a gun. We must be willing to beat them at their own game or we loose. In short we must organize against the organized. Mmm MMm MMMM </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will use Mao-Bama&#039;s words. If a union member brings a knife then you must bring a gun. We must be willing to beat them at their own game or we loose. In short we must organize against the organized. Mmm MMm MMMM</p>
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		<title>By: Rayford Davenport</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/25/giving-thanks-for-the-secret-ballot/#comment-71289</link>
		<dc:creator>Rayford Davenport</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thugery is not new to unions. Remember Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa.History is repeating it&#039;s self. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thugery is not new to unions. Remember Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa.History is repeating it&#039;s self.</p>
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		<title>By: Roger S., Ma.</title>
		<link>http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/25/giving-thanks-for-the-secret-ballot/#comment-71227</link>
		<dc:creator>Roger S., Ma.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Employee &quot;Free&quot; &quot;Choice&quot; Act: Just another piece of legislation with which to &quot;test the conscience of our kings&quot;, our representatives&#039; true commitments and priorities: Just another way to know whom to vote out in 2010, 2012, and beyond! Any Congressperson supporting this supports the violation of a fundamental right. Any Congressperson supporting this violates the rights of his voters, and will presumably resent the secret ballot regarding his own candidacy. So why vote for him?  
 
First and regardless to get &quot;thumbs down&quot; should be those who initiated and sponsored and co-sponsored this particularly egregious piece of proposed legislation. It has no business even being on the docket of any deliberative body in the United States, and its sponsors have no business henceforth holding ever again any public office or other position of trust in our governments, including state government. 
 
That must be the only logic to apply! </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Employee &quot;Free&quot; &quot;Choice&quot; Act: Just another piece of legislation with which to &quot;test the conscience of our kings&quot;, our representatives&#039; true commitments and priorities: Just another way to know whom to vote out in 2010, 2012, and beyond! Any Congressperson supporting this supports the violation of a fundamental right. Any Congressperson supporting this violates the rights of his voters, and will presumably resent the secret ballot regarding his own candidacy. So why vote for him? </p>
<p>First and regardless to get &quot;thumbs down&quot; should be those who initiated and sponsored and co-sponsored this particularly egregious piece of proposed legislation. It has no business even being on the docket of any deliberative body in the United States, and its sponsors have no business henceforth holding ever again any public office or other position of trust in our governments, including state government.</p>
<p>That must be the only logic to apply!</p>
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