Middle Class Republicans Getting a Taste of Their Own Medicine -- And Not Liking It One Bit (accuse, compare)
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Did you start businesses, or are you self employed? Very big difference with regards to government regulation.
And I guess I should have clarified - I'd never start a business in CA, because of over-regulation. One example - an't have delivery trucks idling outside of your business, must convert trucks at great expense to those same trucks. What do you think it will do to commerce down the road?
It isn't a party issue, it is an issue of having no money.
Well said.
How you get 20% unemployment (They were paying out for 17% unemployment in Nov of 2010.) is by not having enough money. Until the debt load drops to a sustainable level then we wont see economic growth.
With the fuel price hikes we will see economic contraction.
As for the rest of your post, I'll just close with this (grammatically incorrect as it is):You cannot make blanket statements for which you have no clue of what you are talking about.
So you have no facts or ability to debate to bring to the table, I'll take that as your white flag. Thanks for playing
You know that how? It might well be a bunch of little mom and pop operations getting money so they can hire Joe Sixpack to do what the government had done before.
This is what you can expect when public services are privatized. Here is an example from privatization of water:
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1) rates can go up. Privately run systems in the state of Illinois average rates 36 percent higher than those publicly owned.
2) Services decline. Privately-run systems rack up more violations of water quality standards.
If we sell all our public services to the private sector, don't think it will be cheaper! You will pay high fees for these services as well as your usual taxes.
This is a way for government to maintain its current revenue while cutting spending. They fail to tell you that you will be spending more!
Anyone who thinks privatizing public services is a good idea, must enjoy getting less for more!
If you're intelligent enough to remove emotion from the situation you can find some very telling items in that article
I don't care how you look at it, if the city can't afford the inflated pensions and other similar programs they can't afford them. Unless you can magically come up with a better answer you shouldn't be bitching about this and I know that the lefties in this thread have no chance of coming up with a better answer since they've done this to the majority of CA already.
They need to reform their pension system as the mayor of Atlanta has proposed for that city:
If we sell all our public services to the private sector, don't think it will be cheaper! You will pay high fees for these services as well as your usual taxes.
Why wouldn't taxes decrease? Government services and public employees would be cut, so why wouldn't taxes also be cut?
So you have no facts or ability to debate to bring to the table, I'll take that as your white flag. Thanks for playing
Well why the hell not. You're going to take whatever I say however you want anyway, so why bother? You can't be swayed by reason. You can't be swayed by facts. You can't be swayed by conscience. You can't be swayed, period. So there's really no further reason to try.
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