Steve King, your people are losing their jobs.

[IADEMO2004]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10571009

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A press release from Echo Windows LLC said the business is "ceasing operations."

"The company has been unable to attract new investors or a buyer for the business," the press release went on to say.

A closure at a related Chicago window manufacturer last year appears to have foreshadowed the fate of the Red Oak plant.

Workers at Republic Windows in Chicago staged a sit-in last December at the plant following its closure. The sit-in lasted six days until the 240 workers received assurances they would get severance pay, vacation pay and health benefits they said were owed to them

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100 jobs leave Red Oak today. The Echo Company people were stinkers from the day they incorporated to shaft Chicago workers. Eaton in Shenandoah sent 51 home last week bringing their total loss since November to 198.

2008 general election

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I am sure this is Obamas fault

[47of74]

1. Steve King's got his head so far up that fat drug addict's rump

That I doubt any such messages about the people he supposedly represents losing their jobs gets through to that SOB.

[progressoid]

4. He's busy making sure we remember to speak English.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090219/NEWS09/902190369/1001/NEWS

King bill repeats English proposal

U.S. Rep. Steve King has renewed his effort to establish English as the official language of the United States, aides to the Iowa Republican said Wednesday.

It is the fourth time King has tried to enact a law that would require the federal government to conduct business in English.

This time it comes as the four-term House member from Kiron is weighing a bid for Iowa governor in 2010.

...snip...

Public opinion on the Iowa law has changed in recent years.

In 2002, The Des Moines Register's Iowa poll showed 81 percent of Iowans supported establishing English as Iowa's official language, with 16 percent opposed.

A 2007 poll showed a slim majority, 52 percent, of Iowa adults supported repealing the law, with 45 percent saying they wanted to keep it in place.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Wonder if they regret voting for him now?

I imagine at least some of the unemployed people voted for him, because, well, hmmm, let's see, oh yeah, his stance on...no that's not it. Maybe it was because of...probably not that either. When people take a hit in the pocketbook, they tend to wake up and get mad. I can see something like that happening in this case.

[progressoid]

3. I'd like to hope so but...

they'll probably blame Obama, or poor people that defaulted on their $400,000 mortgage or some such cognitive dissonance.

I heard a guy in the grocery store yesterday say that everytime Obama opens his mouth the stock market drops. :banghead:

[47of74]

5. Yes....

The main reason the stock market drops is because Obama is going to regulate them, which is something they hate. They know their days of screwing the American people left, right, and sideways is coming to an end, which is why the Wall Street clowns are taking it out on the stock market.

[IADEMO2004]

6. New Turd Talk from Steve (sofa) King Republican

"This is a huge, huge government grab, and it is a lurch towards European-style socialism, and having just come from (a trip to Germany and Russia), my perspective is now, I think, even more solidified in believing that this is the wrong thing to do."

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10571520

English only, no unions, no government, just a poor white english speaking cheap labor pool. God he sucks.

[progressoid]

8. Germany and Russia?

Gee, no surprise he ignored places like Sweden or Canada where socialism thrives.

[IADEMO2004]

7. Your fired and pay us back for the vacation days you took too soon

Steve Kings America at work when you are not protected by a union.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10571520

When Republic Windows closed in December, the union employees staged a six-day sit-in, demanding severance pay, vacation pay and health benefits they said were owed to them. The fight ended with a $1.75 million settlement with workers.

The same is unlikely to happen in Iowa. Here, workers are not union members.

The company will fulfill "all its obligations," to Echo employees, said Chicago-based spokesman Tom Figel.

Gay spent nine years as a Traco employee. Like other employees, she was not offered severance or health insurance benefits on Monday. In fact, she was told she will have to pay the company for vacation days she took that were not yet accrued.