NRA membership

Yep, I agree that the money for NRA membership is worth it! If it wasen't for them fighting to keep our gun rights...we would be registering our scatter guns and they would be countin your shells....kina funny how some folks enjoy the rights we fight to keep, and bad mouth the gift horse.

brownegg

Can't pass this up.
""Bunch of damm fools decrying what a worker makes in a wage. Many have a hard time just putting a roof over their heads, food on the table and a car/truck to drive to work. Yet ya all have smiles and high praise for CEO's and other high falouiton persons in front offices makeing 475 dollars for every one a worker makes."

If you weren't union, you too could be a CEO. That CEO worked his/her way to where they got, and a company that makes a billion per year can afford to pay the top gun big bucks, more so if they produce dividends to bolster your 401K, union pension plan, or my present retirement income.

""If your lucky enough today to be able to afford to buy hunting and fishing equipment above the food, houseing, clothing and car/truck consider your self lucky and pray your company isn't the next greedy company to pack up for a 3d world country with slave labor so the CEO's reap even more money.""

I can buy a bearing. USA- $25, Japan $18, China-$5. If the CEO's make more so do we.


""Industry makes it on the tax abatements from the goverment starting with the little towns, township, with in a county, with in a state, with in the nation. The willingness of workers to endure low wages long hours and unsafe working conditions.""

Funny that. When we retired most of our generating units because they could not meet treehugger standards, the local town went bonkers and the residents protested the fact that now they would have to pay their fair share of property taxes that we were carrying.


"If one man had to start a bussiness on his own crook pay the same property taxes as his neibouring land holder and pay a fair decent wage in a safe working envirment they couldn't do it."

He could if it weren't union. The only obstacle we have now in anyone starting their own business in Obama.


""Every one seems to have lost the fact of the CEO greed. Huge bounses when the company doesn't do well and they are caned even.When a company is selling an american made product and then moves to the third world country the cost of that product doesn't go down."'

So now if one works their way up the corporate ladder, especially without union protection, they are greedy. I suppose since I want real dividends, I am also greedy.

""Many eruopen countrys have a national health care system.
Nokia seems to have a healthy customer base, with prices in line with the 3 world country made ones to name one such country."'

That they do and please explain why they come over here for major medical care. Nokia is in deep doodoo as company.

"'Keep whacking the unions just shows ya don't look at the whole picture. Just that ya all believe all the B/S they keep feeding ya."'

I was in a union (IBEW) and supervised organized labor, so no one is feeding me anything. I played the "safety" game and I enforced it all the time, not just when it was convenient to the chagrin of labor. They called me "Mr contract" and I just loved First, Second and Third step meetings.

China

"Has cheap slave labor.
Has no clean air laws
has no clean water laws
has no workers rights laws
and more that companies save on even the non union ones that have moved"

China is also in deep doodoo if you read the news.

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I am a proud member. There are lots of good Programs from the NRA. It's political (thank god someone is watching out for our rights), but it also stand strong for education and hunting. I cant think of a better use of my money (well maybe I can..)

Been a member for over 30 years. Not a perfect organization and I do get a little tired of the fund raising calls but no one even comes close to doing as much to protect 2nd Amendment rights. Their safety and training programs are the best.

go to the page Cabin Fever gave and spend a few hours looking around. You will see that NRA does a great job of education, support, safety, running and tracking competitive matches...so the money go to other stuff than pure political.

try www.odcmp.org also

Been a member sense 1964. I have one more step up and I will be at the highest level of Life Membership. Yes it does take lots of $ to keep them going. In this country it is the $ that do the talking, you get nothing without money. If firearms are involved so is the NRA. Yes there are people getting a free ride on keeping their firearms, all of them, but that is their right in this country.
Steve

I am a member of the NRA by choice. I think they do good work in protecting our second amendment rights against the grabbers in Washington.


Tim

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