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14 Cities That Are Being Eaten Alive By Public Sector Workers
Business Insider ^
| Jul. 13, 2011
| Grace Wyler
Posted on 07/13/2011 9:55:51 AM PDT by george76
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posted on
07/13/2011 9:55:55 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
The other day I was line to renew my CCW, talking to a ‘Park and Recs’ employee. We talked about how hard it was to get to the Sheriffs office to renew. Anyway, he mentioned that he had almost ‘1.5 years of comp time’ that he can never use...to hard to schedule...and they are always asking him to work more.
My heart went out to him.
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:05:57 AM PDT
by
LearnsFromMistakes
(Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
To: george76
The drones out number the worker bees! The politicians have struck a mortal blow to our economy and it is in its death throes. Soon the battle for raw survival begins.
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:07:32 AM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: george76
Each and every one of the cities is run by....liberals.
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:11:58 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: george76
How in the hell is a city employee, worth more that a Productive side employee?? and How was this allowed to happen?
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:12:38 AM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
To: LearnsFromMistakes
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:12:53 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: george76
The Cities
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- San Francisco
- Pittsburgh
- North Las Vegas
- San Jose, CA
- Providence, RI
- New Haven
- Newark
- Stockton, CA
- Colorado Springs
- Costa Mesa, CA
- Central Falls, RI
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:13:42 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: george76
All liberal bastions ..shocker
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:16:44 AM PDT
by
rainee
To: george76
The parasites have just about killed the host, and they have no intention of stopping their destructive ways.
It is going to get ugly...
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:17:26 AM PDT
by
piytar
(The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Technically speaking, aren’t the drone bees the ones doing the work in a beehive?
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:20:01 AM PDT
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: rainee
except Costa Mesa, CA has finally righted their ship & the unions are fighting them tooth/nail..
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:21:20 AM PDT
by
rainee
To: george76
If it were only 14 cities. I suspect that 75% + of all municipalities—cities, counties, state governments—have unsustainable benefits for their workers. These 14 cities are the first to reach the point where they don’t have any more money to pay for them. The other cities will hit this point too in the near future.
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:22:05 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: LearnsFromMistakes
My daughter just earned her 4 year degree in social work and has grown even more conservative as she starts her first job. She's already gotten her supervisor fired just by passing along information from one of her clients that she had never shown up for work which the supervisor had turned in reports and billing time sheets to collect.
I suspect people like that are just the tip of the iceberg and one of the reasons my daughter got hired so quickly was to help root them out.
I'm surprised that Colorado Springs in #3 on this list, probably the only conservative city of the 14. Does anyone know why?
The 14:
- Central Falls, Rhode Island
- Costa Mesa, California
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Stockton, California
- Newark, New Jersey
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Providence, Rhode Island
- San Jose, California
- North Las Vegas, Nevada
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- San Fransicko
- Chicago
- Los Angeles
- New York City
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:22:56 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: george76
This article misses the point. Who negotiated these agreements? POLITICIANS. Who voted to underfund pensions and benefits? POLITICIANS. Why? TO GET RE-ELECTED.
WHO VOTED FOR THEM? There’s your problem.
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:23:59 AM PDT
by
SC_Pete
To: COBOL2Java
No mention of Boulder, CO or Asheville, NC?
Both are liberal bastions.
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:24:08 AM PDT
by
doc11355
To: george76
New Haven, CT is on the list. Not at all surprised.
It’s also #4 on the list of most dangerous cities. Maybe there s connection. (Duh!)
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:24:27 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: piytar
When the parasites no longer have a host to prey, they usually move on to greener pastures to suck dry.
To: All
To: rainee
“All liberal bastions ..shocker”
And all but three are Northeastern or West Coast.
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:27:10 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: COBOL2Java
Hay, hay, hay....”Texas not included”.
Seriously, we do see all kinds of out- of state- license plates from many of the towns listed and welcome people who want to work and need to work.
Guess Rick Perry has done a lot of good for the “Great State of Texas.”
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posted on
07/13/2011 10:27:30 AM PDT
by
hummingbird
(Help keep Guam from tilting...still not tilting...)
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