Comments on: Pension crisis hits Oregon, collapse of progressive model continues

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:21:25 +0000

Gosh, Tom, I’m sure glad you happened by to enlighten us about who really counts among the struggling. But keep an eye on how many more times we non-union dummies have to bail out the auto workers. Or how much of our money ends up in the pockets of people like Trumpka or other big-time union thieves who happen to donate so much to the beloved ~~socialist~~ Demacrap party.

Yeah, the unions sure are busting their fannies to raise living standards for all of us, aren’t they? And the companies and stockholders can go straight to hell, ’cause they know what’s best for everybody, even if they do sink the company and destroy those jobs in the meantime. It just makes sense to destroy job-creators, doesn’t it? And you know how easy it is to walk down to the corner and get a job from the homeless dude standing out there begging for some change, right?

Whatta chump.

By: LCVRWC

LCVRWC — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:19:15 +0000

You left (my beloved) Maryland off the list. We’re about to take a powder, too.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:40:17 +0000

The greatest trick the Republicans have ever managed to pull off is to get low income workers, unhappy with their lives, to believe the solution is to pull other workers down to their level. Not to find a way to make their own situation better.
Hence the resentment of unions

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:23:55 +0000

So sad to see America, a once great shining city on the hill, to end like this. But all good things must come to an end. It’s the same with the wild wood weed as the song goes.

By: Drew the Infidel

Drew the Infidel — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:36:49 +0000

Karl Marx himself could have written this scenario. The unions, a.k.a. the “workers” will bring everything down until private ownership is just a memory. Twinkies are just the latest “bump in the road”, or so we are told.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:18:23 +0000

@foxmuldar: the general public won’t even get a whiff of it until 1/2 or more of the media people are laid off because no one can afford the price of papers or cable any more. It’ll be interesting to see how they spin it back to GW, though.

By: foxmuldar

foxmuldar — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:34:49 +0000

We ain’t seen nothing yet. just this past week the Federal Reserve asked 30 of the biggest banks to do a stress test to see if they could handle an even deeper recession, one where unemployment reaches 12 percent. Could it be the Fed has been reading their own tea leaves. Its coming. Obamacare is already costing thousand of jobs and work hours for those who are on part time. Add to this the tax hike for those who create jobs as I expect the GOP to cave in to all of Obama’s demands. The shit is soon to hit the fan. When it does it won’t be pretty.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:25:17 +0000

As far as I’m concerned, the only “sustainable” thing about ANY socialist giveaway model (PERS being a perfect example of such) is the derision it so richly deserves.

I worked for the county for a few years, until my conscience wouldn’t let me rule over peoples’ lives any more. My wife was a secretary/receptionist for the county for 30 years. We both pulled our pension funds immediately because we saw the writing on the wall.

Since that time, the state has come back to her twice (mine wasn’t enough to worry about, apparently) and demanded she, as a retiree, refund gobs of money promised her as an employee.

Government unions and their enablers (i.e.- the people we elect to represent us) are so crooked and sleazy!