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10-22-2011, 08:55 PM
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Location: 112 Ocean Avenue
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ON the night of Sept. 8, Gina M. Raimondo, a financier by trade, rolled up here with news no one wanted to hear: Rhode Island, she declared, was going broke.
Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow. But if current trends held, Ms. Raimondo warned, the Ocean State would soon look like Athens on the Narragansett: undersized and overextended. Its economy would wither. Jobs would vanish. The state would be hollowed out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/bu...gewanted=1&hpw
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10-23-2011, 06:23 AM
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She is refreshing. Pension absolutely must be renegotiated not only for state employees but at the local level as well. We Rhode Islanders must write to our legislatures in the state Senate and House of Representatives and demand that they cut state pensions to the bone.
It is also absolutely essential that we write our Mayors and City Council members in our local cities and towns where we live. Demand that double dipping be disallowed. Eliminate cost of living increases. Demand jail terms for those police and fire and other public works frauds who retire on disability pensions in our municipalities and then work elsewhere.
Our governments have the power to bankrupt every one of us if we are too stupid and yellow bellied to fight for our rights for a change.
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10-23-2011, 06:26 PM
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This will not be easy...Union is threatening to go to court, to uphold current negotiations. Going to court could take years and big dollars, to receive a verdict. The ugly possibility is, the unions could win, and all current contracts could hold.
Does anyone have any idea what that would do to this state in that case?
This is what happens when you allow, untrained, unskilled, masses to be represented by State and Local unions. The "paid" union heads convince the large masses they are all not replaceable, nor should they be replaced.
Even FDR said municipal unions was a terrible idea.
This conversation may be the most important we ever have in this state. Ms. Raimondo stated that even if the new program was tweaked or changed a small amount, it would throw off the final future outcome.
Love or hate Rhode Island... this one is critical.
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10-24-2011, 11:43 AM
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Location: Cranston
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You can't trust this article because it was originated by the liberal New York Times.  |
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10-24-2011, 04:51 PM
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Your correct, you would have to actually live in Rhode Island to know it's true.  |
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10-24-2011, 05:45 PM
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Location: Cranston
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SO in other words the New York Times printed something that, according to you, is true. Let Quilter Chick know, quickly! Send word to your Master haha
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10-24-2011, 09:34 PM
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My wife thinks she's my master...  |
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10-24-2011, 09:51 PM
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I'm sure the NY Times has printed many truth's along the way. It's just that most of the time they lean left. In this particular case I don't see how they could spin it left or right, unless they actually chose a side by giving an opinion as to why we have these problems.
Frankly...I don't think they could care less about little Rhode Island and it's problems. Until it actually collapses from it's own weight.
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