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09-02-2012, 09:22 PM
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09-03-2012, 06:26 AM
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Before any one forgets, when the government bailed out GM and Chryssler the union took a significant cut. When the government bailed out Wall Street the bankers gave themselves big bonuses.
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09-03-2012, 08:27 AM
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Before any one forgets, when the government bailed out GM and Chryssler the union took a significant cut. When the government bailed out Wall Street the bankers gave themselves big bonuses.
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I was aware of those things but somehow never put them together. Says a lot, doesn't it?
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09-03-2012, 08:56 AM
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Before any one forgets, when the government bailed out GM and Chryssler the union took a significant cut. When the government bailed out Wall Street the bankers gave themselves big bonuses.
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Then Wall St. told the taxpayers who wanted an accounting of how the TARP funds were used, to stick it. "That's proprietary information" was their excuse.
I guess we do get the government we deserve..
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09-04-2012, 04:09 PM
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Before any one forgets, when the government bailed out GM and Chryssler the union took a significant cut. When the government bailed out Wall Street the bankers gave themselves big bonuses.
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Didn't the GM creditors also take a significant cut, but without the future guarantees given the unions? I think that the standard bankruptcy procedures should have occurred. What was done for GM cost somebody somewhere and was a terrible precedent to set.
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09-03-2012, 09:21 AM
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I think the biggest difference between private and public sector unions is just the fact that private unions have finite resources and public sector just increases taxes to cover their expansions. We are already to the point where a huge portion of our taxes goes to pay for money that is already spent (debt, interest, and public sector benefits included). I wonder when people will realize that soon all the money we give won't be enough to cover what we already owe?
Happy labor day anyway!
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09-03-2012, 10:01 AM
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I think the biggest difference between private and public sector unions is just the fact that private unions have finite resources and public sector just increases taxes to cover their expansions. We are already to the point where a huge portion of our taxes goes to pay for money that is already spent (debt, interest, and public sector benefits included). I wonder when people will realize that soon all the money we give won't be enough to cover what we already owe?
Happy labor day anyway!
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Bingo! I believe this is a part of the reason or the reason why guys like Finn and myself don't support public sector unions.
Happy Labor Day All!
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09-03-2012, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by mpholland
I think the biggest difference between private and public sector unions is just the fact that private unions have finite resources and public sector just increases taxes to cover their expansions. We are already to the point where a huge portion of our taxes goes to pay for money that is already spent (debt, interest, and public sector benefits included). I wonder when people will realize that soon all the money we give won't be enough to cover what we already owe?
Happy labor day anyway!
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Uh chaps, it is the pols that are guilty, not the unions, there is no reason - other than hoping to buy votes - that the pols should give in to every demand. If I was a public sector worker and the pols behaved that way I would be damned if I would vote for them.
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09-03-2012, 10:43 AM
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Uh chaps, it is the pols that are guilty
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Union byproduct?
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09-04-2012, 02:55 PM
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What? No comments from the right?
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