As our own TRS columnist and Michigan resident Jen Kuznicki pointed out yesterday, Right to Work legislation in Michigan only gives an employee a choice as to whether they want to join a union or not, something they didn’t have before. It doesn’t touch collective bargaining either in the public or private sector unions:

Right to Work legislation in Michigan doesn’t touch collective bargaining for private or public unions. Right to work legislation in Michigan doesn’t include firemen or police in any legislative bill. Right to work legislation in Michigan only makes it a personal decision by an employee to join or not join a union, and makes it unlawful for an employer to fire an employee for not joining or joining a union.

That’s it.

But today in Michigan our pathological-lying president demonized the Right to Work legislation as not being about economics, but rather politics, telling residents that it would also take away their collective bargaining rights leaving them with less pay:

(via Free Beacon)




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72 comments
mikeinidaho
mikeinidaho

Hey, any lie you have to tell to buck up your union goon buddies as they get swept from power in another state!

Obama's lips moving = lies being told. Period.

bobemakk
bobemakk

The unions are a big part of the blame for the ruination of this country. WAKE UP OBAMA!

ApplePie101
ApplePie101

In other words, Obama is pro-slavery.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

"MICHIGAN: Obama demonizes Right to Work as taking away collective bargaining".

LIE, next topic.

Tim Jaggers
Tim Jaggers

You don't need as much pay if your paycheck isn't be robbed to pay union dues.

repubboy
repubboy

I would like to know where this person gets his information.. for some one who has never had a job in the private sector he sure thinks he knows about it all.. He is just the creates BS'r I have ever seen..

Doug Ross
Doug Ross

Gee, Obama lied? I'll alert the media. Oh, wait; they're complicit.

Forget it.

SKL53
SKL53

Good for Michigan! They are fed up with the union, but I have one question...how did Obama win the state??? Can't you just smell the corruption!

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

Why is it that wherever a union goes, economic failure and despair follows? Detroit should be a union utopia because of the auto industry. Instead it is a failed wasteland in economic ruin, largely because of the unions (both in the auto industry AND in the state and local government there). For Obama NOT to allow these people to at least vote for a better life AWAY from the iron grip of corrupt unions shows you what a union hack he really is. I hope Michigan ends up like another Wisconsin.

jleinf
jleinf

2012 unions= jobs for China

poljunkie
poljunkie

…and we still have four more years.

I am still finding it hard to believe guys (and gals).

stage9
stage9

Question....where is the RNC Chairman? Is he out stumping for the Republican agenda? Of course not. Is he trying to convince the American people that the GOP strategy is better? Of course not. Is he trying to paint a more hopeful picture for America under a GOP plan? Of course not.

Republicans are idiots. Instead of being proactive, they're allowing Obama to travel the country spewing his BIG LIE to the American people without so much as even a microcosmic response.

And if the GOP does muster enough intellectual fortitude to answer Obama it's: "We're at a standstill on the fiscal cliff negotiations." And as a result they wind up looking incompetent, weak, and obstructionist.

This image says it all...what a bunch of losers...

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-VJ855_Priebu_G_20121116174257.jpg

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

This boy just cannot stop campaigning, can he. This is what we get when he knows he has the media in his hip pocket.

If the media would be truthful at all, he would not be able to spew all the lies that he so flagrantly throws out there, untouched. Time to get that media under control. What a surprise that would be, if he got called on his lies just once.

We need to start there, admitting that there is such a word as "lie" in politics. Hey Obama, "You lie".

Mary
Mary

I have never seen a president interfere like this in the affairs of state governments. He needs to keep his butt in DC and deal with the Affairs of State that are affecting the entire nation. Speaking from Detroit, the city destroyed by unions and democrats.

syvyn11
syvyn11

You forget, Obama wants to replicate Detroit's 'success' across the USA.

jlbs
jlbs

If I live to be 200, I hope to NEVER know another idiot such as this one. He can get things SO screwed up without even trying! But the saddest of all is the lemmings who believe every lie that comes out of his mouth.

Just look at his face after he said what he said. I swear he was trying with all his might to hide a smirk! This person is a disgrace to human-kind!

Ed Murphy
Ed Murphy

If President Obama's lips are moving HE IS LYING

TIMERUNNER
TIMERUNNER

O's favorite tune; besides Crack me up, is, On the road again, just can't wait to get on the road again, cause i find pleasure being with my friends, that's way i'm on the road again. hew haw!

Joseph ewing
Joseph ewing

No worries.

I am sure they'll call him on it tonight on ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts.

sDee
sDee

"The truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joseph Goebbels

German Politician, Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and, Journalist

detectivedick
detectivedick

Remember that Obama got us out of the "ditch" and now we are at the "cliff", I guess next is the "crash".

stage9
stage9

No, he's just traded one ditch for another one.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

The crash is imminent for most, but I'm sure the 'golden parachutes' have been issued to the appropriate people.

sDee
sDee

I've that feeling too. Goebbels also said:

“If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.”

sjmom
sjmom

Nothing more than I would expect a Marxist to say.

kloyd0306
kloyd0306

Attention USA:

Get out now, while you still can.

It's over. Obama wins and USA loses.

froggy19510
froggy19510

"Obama demonizes Right to Work as taking away collective bargaining."

Good. Colective bargainig has gotten us into much of the mess we are in now.

las1
las1

We have the same problem here in Ontario. One day strikes right now by teachers who moan on and on and on about collective bargaining being a right. Clueless selfish whiners... no idea what real rights are. At the very most it's an entitlement, not a right.

Alborn
Alborn

The people who continue to believe this lying man deserve what is coming. It is not going to be pretty. Prepare to take care of yourself for an extended period of time. The land of plenty is coming to an end before long.

Booker T.
Booker T.

Hey Obama, how about you get your arse out of Michigan and let them handle their own problems? Don't you have a fiscal cliff agenda that you should be getting to?

ernst1776
ernst1776

Always enjoy the useful idiots in the background.

las1
las1

Not just your average run of the mill useful idiots mind you... but of the magnificently enthusiastic variety.

stage9
stage9

Add some drool and you have the ultimate tard fest.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

Obama is a worthless, lying POS!!!

There's not a single honest bone in his body! When have you ever seen or heard such a divisive, lying worm like this clown pretending to be the pResident before? He splits this nation - American against American - us or them, just like any terrorist would. What a tremendous waste of skin he is. What a lying weasel! Just let the thugs go right on and continue to be the club of his new world order.

Neil Boortz said that destroying national right-to-work would one of Obama's top initiatives this term... why not? Nothing's going to stop him is it?

Only God knows how far this devil is going to go... only God knows. I still hold out hope that God will raise this country back up from the ashes of this monster's reign. Hopefully there will be something left to salvage.

Obama is flat out wrong and screwed in the head.

PuritanD71
PuritanD71

and the most distressing thing about all of this is the success that he and other politicians are having with this. The idea of common sense or even the desire to actually read what the bill that passed are by-gone's and in the era of social and mass media, it does cause headaches.

Neil Postman is so right on that we would rather amuse ourselves to death than lift a finger in trying to THINK about the problem or even work at figuring things out. If one looks at what is being pushed today even on our children makes one shudder. One of the things being pushed and pushed hard in my locale is to get children involved in sports. Now, there may be some benefits to sports (and my own children are sparingly involved), but at what cost to the children, to the families, and to the community as a whole. It makes one wonder how the Founding Fathers ever had leadership abilities without organized sports.

God will not be mocked and Truth will as always win the day. I pray that it will be sooner than later.

stage9
stage9

That's because HE'S THE ONLY ONE MAKING AN ARGUMENT!

When you have no opposition, it's EASY TO CONVINCE PEOPLE YOUR AGENDA IS THE RIGHT ONE!

gunclinger
gunclinger

This is no surprise...

This EVIL man(?) is on the wrong side of EVERYTHING we as Americans hold dear.

Pray for a white shark attack when he's in Hawaii...

Sorry, I know it's wrong, but I can't deny my feelings...

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Not going to happen. Any good shark worth his salt would spit that chunk of meat right back out. Rather distasteful, I would imagine, due to the acidic nature of the carcass.

las1
las1

All liberals, whatever stripe, never, ever ever let the facts get in the way of a lying narrative.

denbren52
denbren52

Did anyone expect him to stop lying just because the campaign is over?

To be honest though, I just think he's that stupid when it comes to real issues.

sDee
sDee

From the looks of that video he is still campaigning.

Propaganda campaign.

Dick Parker
Dick Parker

Apparently, that's his real job.... the country's welfare? Not so much!

Orangeone
Orangeone

Narcissists cannot stop, they have a thirst for constant attention

Joe
Joe

Is there any way to email blast all the members of Congress?

When is Boehner going to start IMPEACHMENT proceedings

for ALL the crimes he has committed?

Yazz55
Yazz55

He's too busy licking the bottom of the obamessiah's shoes and caving on the fiscal cliff.

sjmom
sjmom

How about trying Obama for treason?

PuritanD71
PuritanD71

Anything would be better than what we are getting from the House now!!!

las1
las1

Whose crimes? Obama's or his.

Joe
Joe

Is being a whimpy stupid drunk a crime - If so - Boehner!

Otherwise Obama!

las1
las1

No, ya got me there Joe... but if it's being a wimpy stupid crying drunk... then that's a crime.

Dukehoopsfan
Dukehoopsfan

Joe, sadly boehner is a eunuch and he is going to cave to the wishes of the left. He also has been busy punishing conservatives in his own party by removing them from committees. If we depend on him we are screwed.