Originally Posted By fkurucz "Who said privatizing government (or some aspects of it) is bad?" The part of the bill that is contoversial is that the privatization would occur via no bid contracts. The Koch brothers would be able to purchase the powerplants for a song.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Pass...I don't completely disagree with you. Yes, elected officials cater to union power and have allowed these ridiculous salaries to escalate. Uninformed voters don't stop the practice. Be that as it may...the problem exists and now that the rubber has met the road and the days of expected unsustainability have come something needs to be done. In the private sector, companies have been dealing with this for the past 8-10 years. Why should government (Federal, state or local) be immune to it?
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I don't remember where I read this or who said it, but: A capitalist, a union worker and a tea party member are sitting at a table with a dozen cookies in front of them. The capitalist takes 11 of the cookies and then says to the tea partier, "Hey, that union guy is trying to take your cookie!"
Originally Posted By Dabob2 LOL. Too true. The old divide and conquer strategy still works, for some. "Hey, I know. Let's pit non-unionized worker against unionized worker and private sector worked against public sector worker, and hope that they'll fight each other rather than noticing who's really been taking an ever-larger slice of the country's wealth for the last 30 years." There has been a MASSIVE transfer of wealth from the middle class to the upper 2% in the last 30 years, accelerated in the last 10. The figures don't lie. And in the last 10 years, it's not that the pie has been getting bigger and a rising tide has lifted all boats or anything like that. The tide is flat and then starting sinking, and the upper-upper STILL took more. That's what needs to be addressed. But as long as they can pit different sectors of the middle class against each other...
Originally Posted By Tony C Post 24 or the capitalist might say it's cheaper to ship the cookies to India.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Consider your brain kissed!>> I hope you were wearing lip guards! Or else you're gonna get that conspiracy theory bug I'm harboring. 8^D
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Wahoo, is this lawnmower in charge of only one property or does do the lawns of all the city properties? If he is working full time taking care of the grounds of all, or even many, of the city's properties, a 3% increase a year for how ever many years he has been doing the job (which, if had been doing from the time he was 17 is probably quite a lot) is not unreasonable. Nor is $57,000 a year. Taking care of many properties is a lot of hard work. Why shouldn't he be paid a wage he can actually live on for doing it. Now, if he only mows one lawn or does not work full time it is a different story.
