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I thought you just volunteered to spend all your money on the public employee unions' demands. I was expecting that.
Um... that has nothing to do with the fact that the taxpayers can no longer support the expense of lavish public employee salaries and benefits. The taxpayers cannot afford it. Public employee unions can protest all they want; it won't matter. The taxpayers are tapped out.
Yea, that would be true when your this late in the game
So here's the point. Don't buy the hype. Instead of demeaning the cop next door, or the teacher down the street, or the UPS guy, why not figure out why you don't get a pension, and then ask that cop or teacher or UPS guy [whom you looked down on, say 10 years ago, as some uncool person out there doing a "barely white collar" job when they could've been out there making a killing in real estate or day trading] how they managed to keep some piece of security in their future?
Simple: their unions' EXTORT it by use of force from the taxpayers. Try not paying your property tax bill and see what happens.
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You are being manipulated. You[we] have been brought to your knees, and instead turning your ire at whomever did it to you[& I guarantee it wasn't your 1st grade teacher], you are eating your own.
You have that exactly backwards. Public employee unions have greedily eaten all their seed corn, and are crying like babies that their golden goose has finally crapped out.
Mixed metaphors, if you will, but it's easy enough to get the point.
Simple: their unions' EXTORT it by use of force from the taxpayers. Try not paying your property tax bill and see what happens.
You have that exactly backwards. Public employee unions have greedily eaten all their seed corn, and are crying like babies that their golden goose has finally crapped out.
Mixed metaphors, if you will, but it's easy enough to get the point.
If pay would have kept up with inflation in the private sector, would you be onboard with that, or, do you support the globalization of wages wherein patriotism is a jingoistic term for raping other countries under the guise of the US military for the benefit of the few?
If pay would have kept up with inflation in the private sector, would you be onboard with that, or, do you support the globalization of wages wherein patriotism is a jingoistic term for raping other countries under the guise of the US military for the benefit of the few?
I'm not on board with public sector unions for the same reasons FDR has already espoused.
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