Posted on 02/19/2015 12:33:26 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Hardest hit would be health care for poor people, higher education, and mass transit.
The highlights in his hair and lipstick were dead giveaways as well.
The Supreme Soviet is watching you, comrade.
Yes!
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Oh boy, the left surely does not like the governor. Letting workers opt out of union dues; what’s not to like?
I was thinking of moving to Illinois and carrying water for Bruce’s revolution until.....
“The governor’s budget would exempt police officers and firefighters from the change. (needed pension reductions)”
Alas. Bruce has feet of clay....or at least clay on his feet. He plays to the praetorian chorus.
Why should they be exempted?
An answer to that question defines if one is fit to be free or is born with bent knee to lick boots of their betters.
While Bruce is no longer my “100% rock star” and BFF. I would still stand him to a beer and remind him that all men are created equal and that in this Republic, no title of nobility may be conferred or enjoyed.
Cops and firefighters are public servants no less than public works or transportation and should be treated no differently.
Instead, a higher percentage of the union dues are used to fund political activites than collective bargaining activities, and the fair share fees that non-union memmbers pay are higher than they ought to be in order to subsidize the cost of collective bargaining for the union members. Indeed, this is the equivilent of Planned Parent's claim that it does not use federal funds to kill unborn children. Instead, PP uses federal funds to pay rent, electric, and other soft costs that are not directly tied to homicide, which frees up the funds that do not come from the Feds to pay for the killings.
The horror...
Just follow the money...
It took me years to learn that little trick, EVERYTHING the Politicians and especially the left leaning ones do is about money and how to control and accumulate as much of it as ‘they’ can.
Salon...makes the (CPUSA paper) Daily Worker look moderate.
We live in Illinois ( ok, quit throwin stuff at me)
my wife was picking up an RX prescription @ Walgreens yesterday. Overhears\sees this:
Guy in front of her had his RX rejected because of some Medicaid rule where he exceeded something for the month.
He tells whoever, ok here’s my HMO card, you can use this.
I give him kudos for taking the flak already....let’s hope he’s got some fortitude to get the job DONE.
Still, some are more equal:
“..would cut pensions for current state workers, moving them to the lower-benefit pension plan for recent hires, despite a state constitutional injunction against the diminishment of pension benefits. The governor’s budget would exempt police officers and firefighters from the change...”
FIRE FOR EFFECT
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