Posted on 03/20/2011 3:49:23 AM PDT by jimbo123
The other day we got a letter from the teacher’s union instructing us to sign a form letter of complaint to out state officials. The claim was that Cuomo was lying and that the children would be harmed. I mailed the instruction letter to a local radio station, which was read on the air. I also mailed it to the targets of the letter and the mayor. I wanted them to know what they were up against and to prepare for the pile of faked outrage.
The school required the letters be signed and returned, not stuffed in envelopes. They allowed hand written notes but they had to be anti-cut. I am assuming someone would read all the letters before sending them to the targets. There was an implied benefit to returning the letters. Those that returned the letters would watch a movie. Those that didn’t got class room work.
NY is a sinking boat. The unions seem to feel that their half of the boat isn’t sinking. It infuriates me beyond expression.
There is no way that NY could recover. Just like California. The unions bled the state to death. The only solution is to absolve themselves of all financial liability to the pension fund.
WE need to call the libs out on these tired cliched arguements. Bankruptcy and a shrinking economy help no one, most especially the "vulnerable".
Afterall, they are already morally and intellectually bankrupt.
Make NO MISTAKE, Andrew Cuomo is as liberal as they come, and a “highly disagreeable” man, but he is dead on right fiscally. I am pleased that he is grounded in reality and support his efforts to bring reality to Albany.
Hey, no one's calling Cuomo a conservative -- but this is the best effort at containing state costs since 1994 before Pataki changed parties. I mean, c'mon, give the Devil his due.
Not primarily, ONLY. The union leadership cares not a whit about members well being, only in members paying dues.While the members get $50K, the leaders get 10 times that amount and more and they want to keep the gravy train rolling.
Well, feel free :)
But, to my mind, results are what count. Not good intentions. And Cuomo's so-called cuts'll still leave NYS flat busted.
Your last paragraph is almost perfect! It puts into words what many people feel................many liberal & former liberal people too! It’s one thing to offer compassion & help to people who have a work ethic and are down on their luck; it is quite another to keep propping up generations of families who leech on the gov’t at EVERY turn. I see this daily at the school where I teach. There are social programs on top of social programs. It’s like the Russian stacking dolls.............endless...............
My brother & I are no longer on the liberal party train anymore. He sees so much abuse in his job ( he does collections & cutoffs for a satellite company)............he has been shot at by rubber bullets , seen two people openly having sex as he was dismantaling a box, tons of people just hanging out , getting high, not working, & having Schwann’s food delivered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All in housing projects!
We are over it and wonder why we stayed clueless for so long. And we watch our 75 year old mother go to work to help support these leeches!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The state I live in has the highest teen pregnancy rate & yet the gravy train keeps coming for all the single moms. What the h*ll kind of incentive is that to stop having children who are a burden to the system in every way possible???????????? (DON’T even get me started on the mother who came to see about her violent, messed up 2nd grade son and came w/ her two teenage thug sons; they had all just come from youthcourt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And more daughters & a baby at home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Like my brother says, “You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried!”
Let's make the following correction:
That means that New York’s most vulnerable citizens — the schoolteachers union, the elderly, the poor, the sick — will feel a disproportionate amount of the pain.
I can not disagree with a word you say.
Since I still live in Western NY, I would like to think that there are always possibilities. But, they are getting fewer and fewer and there may not be much left.
Buffalo’s Gold Coast is empty of those businesses which brought jobs (Bethlehem, Republic, Hanna, and Donner Hanna Coke), Rochester is headed the same general direction as Kodak is a shell, Xerox is a shell, GM’s Rochester Fuel Systems is a shell.
Syracuse is all but gone as GE has left. Rockwell, Allied Signal, Crouse Hinds, Carrier, Chrysler, GM Fisher have left.
The government unions must be broken. When I started working, I could have gone into government, but chose the private sector instead because it paid better. That has changed and the now the government peon makes what I make as a physicist/Licensed Professional Engineer. With better benefits and pension.
The hard truth is that it is impossible to cut spending deeply without cutting the state's huge outlays for education and health care. That means that New York's most vulnerable citizens -- schoolchildren, the elderly, the poor, the sick -- will feel a disproportionate amount of the pain.Nope -- the Demwits will feel the disproportionate amount of the pain. Nice spin by the author of the article though.
"don't mistake activity for achievement".....
Our current systems remove these incentives and tells them the lie that they cannot do for themselves.
Our current systems, or more specifically, our demagogue politicians, convince others with emphasis about who their enemies are. It’s also them who buy into the votes as well. I mean, I can never get a clear definition as to who the enemies of a given special interest group are, I lost track and gave up on trying to figure out some time ago, and just behave as politely as possible.
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