AFL-CIO Chief Trumka: There Is No Fiscal Cliff – It Is a Manufactured Crisis

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters yesterday, “There is no fiscal cliff.”

AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka told reporters yesterday that their is no fiscal cliff.
Current TV reported:

“Digging in for the looming battle over deficit-reduction, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will make organized labor’s case Thursday against cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, declaring the doomsday debt talk in Washington a “manufactured crisis.”

“There is no fiscal cliff,” Trumka says in prepared remarks to the National Mediation Board Conference in Washington on Thursday. “What we’re facing is an obstacle course within a manufactured crisis that was hastily thrown together in response to inflated rhetoric about our federal deficit.”

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   #1 November 16, 2012 at 12:13 pm

   myohmy commented:

   Trumka is living in an alternative world. Sure tell that to the chinese who owns us.

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   #2 November 16, 2012 at 12:14 pm

   even steven commented:

   Trumpka’s brain is as fat and out of shape has his body. I loved it when this bloated idiot was talking tough about TEA Partiers a while back. Yeah… I’m terrified of some union fatty who can’t do one overhand pull up and who can’t seen his own “manhood” without the aid of a mirror. What a putz!

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   #3 November 16, 2012 at 12:19 pm

   rolling thunder commented:

   Of course not! America is in fine financial shape. Gorbachev said the same thing about the Soviet Union in 1987. Today the Soviet Union can only be found in history books. In about ten years, without rectifying the present financial precipice, the USA will be history as well.

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   #4 November 16, 2012 at 12:22 pm

   Aaron G. commented:

   2-Good one!
   BTW,if it is trumped up,why the demands by Obama that taxes be increased?

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   #5 November 16, 2012 at 12:26 pm

   Granny commented:

   Tell that “manufactured crisis” bit to your union members at Baker’s Trumpka . . . . what part of no more money on the money treee does he not understand?

   And BTW, the CHINESE may be buying our air force base in the Azores, now that Obama has shut it down.

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   #6 November 16, 2012 at 12:28 pm

   Deserttrek commented:

   another child abuser speaks. I call trumka and all libes child abusers because the are piling up huge debt for our children. they are putting in regulations to crush growth and initiative. they are happy for illegal aliens to come in and lower wages to get the votes.

   there actions are abuse and they should be called on it.

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   #7 November 16, 2012 at 12:32 pm

   Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:

   Great! Then Boehner has absolutely NO REASON WHATSOEVER to raise the debt ceiling one stinking dime.

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   #8 November 16, 2012 at 12:35 pm

   Look-Out commented:

   He’s a LIAR like all the rest on the left. It’s what they do.

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   #9 November 16, 2012 at 12:35 pm

   retired militaryq commented:

   Since there is not fiscal cliff then they wont mind if we go over it.

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    #10 November 16, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    Noovuss commented:

    What a block of communist lard!

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    #11 November 16, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    democraps suck commented:

    That coming from a fat coomie thug…what a brainless twit

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    #12 November 16, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    SeniorD commented:

    The Boss has spoken. Since this pint sized Socialist bully commands Obama’s domestic economy, only non-Union, Freedom Loving Conservatives need worry. Makes one wish for the days of Lane Kirkpatrick.

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    #13 November 16, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    Maria commented:

    Yeah just like Hostess wasn’t going to close up shop.

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    #14 November 16, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

    “There is no fiscal cliff,”

    All the more reason to sit back, do nothing, and let it happen.

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    #16 November 16, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    Granny commented:

    Speaking of manufactured crisis – Lookie see who has been visiting the White House with her sister!

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/16/florida-woman-tied-to-petraeus-scandal-visited-white-house/

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    #17 November 16, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

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    ==

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    #18 November 16, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    RickZ commented:

    Baghdad Bob had more credibility that this Trumka goonion di-k.

    To be in a union, one must never have taken an economics course, hell, not even an algebra class.

    So how many jobs are the unions now going to create to show just how magnificent they are? Oh wait, they’re bloodsuckers not creators.

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    #19 November 16, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    Marcy commented:

    All righty then….nothing to worry about. No need to raise taxes on anyone. Bush tax cuts are working just fine. Job numbers are just a figment of our imagination. 23-24 million un or under employed….move along nothing to see here. No need to raise that debt ceiling either. This is great news. Best news I’ve heard in 4 years! Thanks Trumka.

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    #20 November 16, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    dwd commented:

    This is the same genius blaming Romney and Bain for Hostess shutting down.

    HELLO?! Unions want too much, more than Hostess can give, period. Businesses cannot operate like the government, with a continual trillion dollar deficit and tens of trillions of dollars of debt. It doesn’t work.

    Good for Hostess for not backing down. Watch the unions and Democrats spread the blame and point the fingers at everyone but themselves.