Go Georgia

It seems that illegal immigrant's are fleeing Georgia by the truckload now and to make up for the lack of farm workers Governor Deal is going to put parolee's to work .... good call.

La Raza is up in arms about this ... too bad, what do you not understand about illegal !!!

KRB

Aetna Foundation Confirms Support of La Raza

This is the response I received from the Aetna Foundation:

"Yes we have supported NCLR in the past. Our most recent award supported health outreach service to low-income and uninsured families who are facing serious obstacles in obtaining quality medical care. Since we at the foundation are interested in promoting wellness, health, and access to high quality care for everyone, and since La Raza has community programming that works to bridge health care access gaps, we accordingly, are interested in supporting that type of work.

Best,

Aetna Foundation"

Media Bias

My Union Business Manager said at the meeting last night that "90 percent of all media is controlled by conservatives"

If that's true then explain to me the coverage of the two latest sex scandals that elected officials have been tangled in...

Almost ever article headlines as "Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger" or say that in the first few lines of the story...video and audio coverage is the same, but...

...other articles and coverage says "Rep. Anthony Weiner" in print or "Representative Anthony Weiner" spoken, you have to get all the way to the end of the coverage to find the work Democrat, if it's mentioned at all....

La Raza Queries

Sent several requests for information to different places asking why they contribute to La Raza, will post any replies here !!

The theme of the queries was simple, "Why do you financially support/contribute to La Raza ?"

KRB

Hate Fest 2011

Spent all day yesterday at Union Steward training, it took nearly twice as long this time than the last training for the "Republicans are evil" diatribe to start, the first shot was 38 minutes into the training. We then got a healthy dose of Companies are more corrupt than Unions.

Let me preface all of this with the following, there are good companies, there are bad companies, there are good unions, there are bad unions, same goes with Democrats and Republicans, Conservatives and Liberals, what torques me off is the complete lack of intellectual honesty on the part of many.

Highlights ;

- "How many business leaders have been put in jail over the last few years, only 4 Union Business Managers in the last 15 years have been in the news for embezzling funds and so forth"

Let's see, we were told that there about 800 locals in the union, what percentage is 4 out of 800 and what about other Union Officials other than Business Managers, how does this compare to the percentage of CEO's to hundreds of thousands of business' in the US. I don't know but I really don't want to put the time into finding out. Also, how can we talk about embezzling funds like it's no big deal, this is stealing from our union brothers and sisters by the folks who say there only concern is taking care of us labor folks.

- We got an anti-NRA plug because the NRA tells you how to vote, not the Union.

I have read by Union magazine, I'm pretty sure that all the political articles in there are designed to try to influence my vote.

- "Unions don't tell you who to vote for without telling you why"

See the above, I understand that the Unions support certain candidates on Labor Issues, I have never once seen a history on a candidate the tells me their past performance on Labor issues, only that they support Labor, how ? The anti-NRA rant above said that they don't tell you why to vote for certain candidates, bad news, I've been an NRA member for years and I've actually got candidates voting records on gun issues through the NRA.

- "No state candidate ran on a right to work platform but they call got to the state house and that's all they've worked on!"

I received a lot of "Right to Work" flyer's from multiple candidates on Right to Work issues during the campaigns, heck I'm still throwing alot of that stuff away, it wasn't a surprise to me, or did we just not take the time to watch what both sides were doing.

- Right to Work means that employee's get Union Representation with out paying dues.

Not even close to being true, yes a non union employee will probably get the same pay and benefits but in our contract they do not get to have Union Representation or protection and they pay an amount to the union that is equal to dues for the privilege of working in a union shop without being a member. (This is a great example of the intellectual honesty I was talking about, we don't call it dues we call it something else so we can say they don't pay dues.)

Also they company does not have to pay the same union scale to a non union employee, many time they choose to for ease of accounting, but they don't have too. My position on this has always been that there are 22 Right to Work states, the unions have not ceased to exist in any of them, the unions need to be just like any other group that want members, provide a value that people will want and the members will come, there is no need to fear loss of membership if you are providing the service that the labor force wants.

- Possible my favorite quote of the day, "All those family values voters don't want you going home to see your family".

Really ? I am a family values voter myself, I want to go home to my family too. This was part of a forced overtime discussion and the fact is this, there are laws to govern this and the laws apply to union and non union workplaces. Do non union places get away with this a bit more, sure they do, this goes back to my make yourself valuable to workers and you will get more members.

Disclaimer: The actual training part of the training was pretty good, learned lots and got some stuff hammered home that I hadn't thought about in awhile. I just wish everything didn't have to turn into political BS.

Do You Support "La Raza" ?

You got up this morning and went about your daily routine of cleaning up and starting your day, hair, teeth, the morning constitutional and so, on.

You jumped in your full size Tundra and headed out to Wal-Mart, you picked up some cleaning supplies and toothpaste and some new shampoo.(Tide, Bounty, Crest and Head & Shoulders) You stepped into the pharmacy to pick up a prescription which you paid for with your MetLife HSA, at the register you pulled out your Citibank Card and paid for the rest of your purchases.

A quick stop at the gas station to fill up and on your way, it's nice that the local Chevron takes your Bank of America debit card !!

...Already you have donated to La Raza 6 times .... (at least)

Toyota, Wal-Mart, Proctor & Gamble, Metlife, Citi, Chevron/Texaco and Bank of America all contribute to La Raza.

La Raza funds schools who teach an Ethnic Studies curriculum that teaches that America stole the American Southwest from Mexico and that Mexico should re-conquer that area.

La Raza needs to fund itself !

La Raza is an Hispanic Hate group that receives 5 million dollars in federal funding every year.

This group funds schools that teach Hispanic students that the US Southwest was "stolen" from Mexico and and must someday be "reconquered" by Mexico.

Students from the Aztlan Academy, a school funded by La Raza, took over a Tucson School Board meeting by shackling themselves to tables and chairs while screaming about "racist America".

Should tax dollars go to a group like this, no !

Call your representative today at 202-224-3121 and demand that the Federal Government stop giving tax dollars to the National Council of La Raza.

La Raza also receives donations from the following:

1. Aetna Foundation
2. AFL-CIO
3. AFSCME (which is the AFL-CIO in diguise)
4. Alcoa Foundation
5. Allstate Foundation
6. America's Charter School Finance Corporation
7. American Airlines
8. American Express Philanthropic Program
9. Anheuser-Busch Company
10. Annie Casey Foundation
11. AOL Time Warner
12. Bank of America
13. Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
14. The Bridgestone/Firestone Trust Fund
15. The California Endowment
16. Carnegie Corporation of New York
17. Caterpillar Foundation
18. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
19. ChevronTexaco Corporation
20. Citigroup Inc.
21. Citigroup Foundation
22. Coors Brewing Company
23. Corporation of National and Community Service
24. The Cummins Foundation
25. DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund
26. DTE Energy Foundation
27. E.I. Du Pont, De Nemours And Company
28. Eastman Kodak CO
29. Friedrich Ebert Foundation
30. Entergy Charitable Foundation
31. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
32. Fannie Mae Foundation
33. FedEx Corporation
34. First Data Western Union Foundation
35. The Fred R. Fernandez-Irma R. Rodriguez Foundation Inc.
36. Ford Foundation
38. Ford Motor Company Fund
39. Freddie Mac Foundation
40. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
41. Illinois Attorney General
42. General Mills Inc
43. Hess Foundation, Inc
44. Hilton Hotels Corporation
45. Home Depot, Inc
46. IBM
47. Inter-American Foundation
48. The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation
49. Job Corps
50. Johnson & Johnson
51. The Joyce Foundation
52. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
53. The Kroger Co.
54. Levi Strauss & Co.
55. Lockheed Martin Corporation
56. Lucent Technologies Foundation
57. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
58. The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation
59. MBNA
60. Mehri & Skalet PLLC
61. Mertz Gilmore Foundation
62. MetLife Foundation/Metlife Inc.
63. Motorola Foundation
64. NASA
65. NEA Foundation
66. Nike Foundation
67. Open Society Institute
68. PG&E Corporation
69. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
70. PepsiCo, Inc.
71. Pfizer Inc.
72. The Proctor and Gamble Company
73. Prudential Foundation
74. The Rockerfeller Foundation
75. Rockwell Automation, Inc.
76. Rosenberg Foundation
77. Sallie Mae Fund
78. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
79. Toyota USA Foundation
80. U.S. Department of Commerce
81. U.S. Department of Education
82. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
83. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
84. U.S. Department of Labor
85. United Airlines Foundation
86. USAA Federal Savings Bank
87. UPS Foundation
88. Valassis Giving Committee
89. Verizon Communications Inc.
90. W.K. Kellogg Foundation
91. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
92. The Walton Family Foundation
93. Wells Fargo & Co.
94. Western Union
95. The William Randolph Hearst Foundation
96. Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering
97. The Xerox Foundation

.... and you thought you knew where your money goes ...