On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:18:48 -0500, HK wrote:

The order instructs federal agencies to have construction contractors
make agreements that require contractors to negotiate with unions,
recognize union wages and benefits, and follow collective bargaining
agreements.

Well that's pretty much it for "stimulus". What with all the Union
feather bedding, cost overruns, and obscene benefits like Job Banks,
there won't be any money left for the rest of us.

--

"Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure, than to rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

Zombie of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:18:48 -0500, HK wrote:

The order instructs federal agencies to have construction contractors
make agreements that require contractors to negotiate with unions,
recognize union wages and benefits, and follow collective bargaining
agreements.

Well that's pretty much it for "stimulus". What with all the Union
feather bedding, cost overruns, and obscene benefits like Job Banks,
there won't be any money left for the rest of us.

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I wasn't aware you needed money. You're not unemployed, you're retired.

On Feb 9, 6:50*pm, HK wrote:
Zombie of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:18:48 -0500, HK wrote:

The order instructs federal agencies to have construction contractors
make agreements that require contractors to negotiate with unions,
recognize union wages and benefits, and follow collective bargaining
agreements.

Well that's pretty much it for "stimulus". *What with all the Union
feather bedding, cost overruns, and obscene benefits like Job Banks,
there won't be any money left for the rest of us.

--

I wasn't aware you needed money. You're not unemployed, you're retired.

Hey Krausie, he earned his retirement, unlike you, who is simply ...
unemployed. No wonder you don't own the place in which you live.