The West Wing Cast Comes to Washington to Lobby Card Check

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I'm pro-union and have paid attention during the horrid eight years of Bush. But the Card Check bill is unfair.....to employers? Yes. But to workers who will be put under profound pressure by organizing workers. I hope unions will make a comeback but not through slashed tires and broken windows.

Hank Haines of TN 8:22PM March 31, 2009

If you can recite a script and pretend that you are someone else, then your opinion on significant issues is somehow more important than that of less visible but better informed citizens?
Politicians who pay any attention to this event are identifying themselves - they are more interested in show than substance.

Brad of TX 12:20PM March 31, 2009

The people the play make believe for a living. The people that read a script and are most sucessfull if they make us belive it?
The same people that pushed to elect "The Obama"?
Secret ballots are the root of FREEDOM, remember?

Chris Petty of GA 11:09AM March 31, 2009

are not particularly helpful to its cause.
They are ACTORS, not "real", remember?
We need EFCA to make employers responsive.
We do not need it to swell the ranks of actual union members and it probably won't.
Level the dang playing field and you'll find employers wanting to cooperate with their people. You'll find the people not wanting to pay dues and not wanting to follow Hoffa-style bosses. You'll also find an effective end to this "Employment at Will" CRAP that has been shoved down citizens throats by corporations since Reagan. Go EFCA!!!!!! (Skip "Actors")

Muser of NM 9:13PM March 30, 2009

Hopefully, with efforts like these and more, we can turn this economy around and actually focus on solving the deeper, systemic issues for why we're in this situation. Obviously bad banking's a good place to start, but there are other issues, like global poverty, that have huge economic and geopolitical ramifications.
The Borgen Project (www.borgenproject.org) has some interesting insight into addressing the issues of global poverty, something we can remedy easily and sustainably.
Some interesting figures to ponder:
$30 billion USD: The annual shortfall to end global poverty.
$550 billion USD: The annual US defense budget.

Jon Lilly of WA 7:27PM March 30, 2009