Posted on 12/27/2010 8:03:23 AM PST by FromLori
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Government employees losing their fat bloated pensions?
This is long over due.
Like California, these cities just continue with their established ways. They operate under the belief that Obama will make it all OK.
Well, we had "Build America Bonds" so I guess, besides renewing the BABs, we'll have "Build Cities Bonds" and the Fed will merrily buy both.
What is this? A race to the bottom?
Ann Arbor has the Greenie Weenie Peacenik Blame America First Liberals.
Detroit and Flint have the 1930’s Huey Long, Woodie Guthrie and Union Newsletter Economic Liberals.
Most liberals I know literally believe there is no end to the money in "the richest country in the world".
On the very rare occasion when the realization hits that the country is going broke, it's met with swift, strong denial and then quickly and/or conveniently forgotten. China fuels this denial...for however long they care to string us along with loans (bribes)...
You've pointed to another paradox of liberal mentality. While they think there is no end to the money that government can dole out, they also believe that capital is a zero sum commodity and everyone who becomes well off has done so by making someone else poor.
1. Politicians want to get elected and reelected.
2. Unions contribute to their campaigns and gurantee turnout.
3. Politicians negotiate sweetheart deals with the unions.
4. Politicians underfund pensions so they can buy goodies for their contituents and buy more votes.
5. Before the stinky hits the fan, the politicians have moved on and/or retired.
6. Retirees and the taxpayers get screwed.
The average workers nationwide do not receive exhorbitant pensions. The fatcat bureaucrats do.
Banksters. The banksters own it all in the end.
Agreed. Without the ability to spend money they don’t have, the scam collapses. At the local level, short term obligations are being financed with long term debt. That’s a prescription for disaster. Worse yet, at the national level, the international banking cartel is now setting US policy. Our We have lost our sovereignty to banksters: and that includes the CHICOMS.
However, no one held a gun to the heads of the corrupt politicians and their greedy constitutents to ignore sound money policy. When you borrow from the MOB, you get more than debt.
And it was done purposelly.
From the perspective of the middle class...a capitalist talks you out of your dollars, while the government just takes your dollars without even a hello and gives it to their political cronies.
Both scenarios leave you just a little bit poorer. Only one gives you even a chance to keep your money without threat.
A middle class liberal (see "a fool and his money are soon departed") cannot detect this monumental distinction and it threatens his very freedom. This lack of insight is shrinking the middle class and making large numbers of life long, poorer, indoctrinated liberals out of average Americans.
Anyway...I no longer waste much time trying to figure out liberals. They have already screwed the country into the ground. Sadly, recovery may not happen in our lifetime....the socialist legislation just from this past year alone is incomprehensible and is so massive will never be erased and likely will barely be dented for many years to come. Anyone trying to make an honest living is likely a criminal according to our new "laws"....
I have lived in both the Dallas and Philly suburbs. Texas has limits on how much property taxes can rise. In Pennsylvania, the sky's the limit.
Don’t forget the Union of Soviet Socialist Bolder (CO)
In a free society they would fail and take their dupes and followers down with them. In a socialized society, with each of us chained by the power of the state, they harness that for their own wealth, and transmit losses away from them( let no opportunity go to waste ) and to us.
By and large, any politician or government actor is a liar, and a thief unless long proved otherwise.
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