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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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Is it coincidence that many of these proposed cutbacks are to programs that conservatives have always wanted to cut??
But I suppose we all have to share this burden equally. Just read the words of this GOP rep:
GOP Rep: I'm 'Struggling' On My $174K Salary
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/gop-rep-im-struggling-on-my-174k-salary-video.php
"At a town hall meeting in Polk County, Wisconsin earlier this year, Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) was asked whether he'd vote to cut his $174,000 annual salary. Duffy sort of hedged, and went on to talk about how $174,000 really isn't that much for his family of seven to live on. Then he went on to say he supports cutting compensation for all public employees, along the lines of what Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has proposed for the Badger State."
Nice, ...."a politician who whines to his own constituents about barely getting by on three times their salary and then offering to "sacrifice" by taking a pay cut right along with them. Big of him. As if he will feel the same pinch as someone who brings home 600 bucks a week... "***
***Struggles of the top 5%
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: Which 'conservative' governor is the most reactionary? |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Candidates:
1. Walker of Wisconsin
2. Kasich of Ohio
3. Snyder of Michigan
4. Scott of Florida
5. LePage of Maine
6. Brewer of Arizona
7. Barbour of Mississippi
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The winner is Snyder. The bill giving him the right to more or less abolish local government and replace it with a "city dictator" puts him head and shoulders above the rest. His decision to seriously cut unemployment benefits in a period of historic unemployment is just icing on the cake.
Whatever, the people of the midwest followed the South on board the Tea Party express, and now they can either live with the consequences or fight back with recalls. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:32 pm Post subject: Unions Mark MLK's Death with National Protests |
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The eldest son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said Monday if his father had not been killed 43 years ago, the civil rights icon would be fighting alongside the workers rallying to protect collective bargaining rights.
Martin Luther King III said he will join marchers across the country on the anniversary of his father's assassination, in support of workers' rights. At the time of his death, King was in Memphis, Tenn., supporting a strike of black municipal sanitation workers. His son said the fight was for dignity and democracy, and he compares that struggle to the battle over collective bargaining rights in states including Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio.
"If he were with us, he would be very concerned that some Americans have chosen to focus on dismantling workers' rights," King III said. "Dad was killed in that context. He would want us to be engaged in that activity today."
Labor unions want to frame the debate as a civil rights issue, which could draw sympathy to public workers being blamed for busting state budgets with generous pensions. Arlene Holt Baker, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO, was also in Atlanta for the "We Are One" campaign, which she said also included teach-ins and vigils in dozens of cities nationwide. Standing near the spot where King and his widow, Coretta Scott King, are buried, Holt Baker said the two movements are linked.
"Dr. King realized and said so often that a path to a just economy, to the middle class, was through labor unions," she said. "Economic justice was the ultimate fulfillment of his dream."
The planned rallies are part of a coordinated strategy by labor leaders to ride the momentum of pro-union demonstrations and national polls showing most Americans support collective bargaining rights as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and other GOP leaders in states fight to reduce or strip those benefits.
Walker has argued that collective bargaining is a budget issue. On Friday, he signed into law a bill the strips nearly all collective bargaining benefits from most public workers, arguing the move will give local governments flexibility in making budget cuts needed to close the state's $3.6 billion deficit.
At the rally in Cleveland, about 300 union supporters denounced Ohio Gov. John Kasich and workers vowed to block the bill Kasich signed last week that bans public worker strikes, eliminates binding arbitration and restricts bargaining for 350,000 public employees. U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio, said Republicans are trying to silence workers at the bargaining table.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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However worthy all these candidates are, I think Gov. LePage of Maine may have slipped out into the lead going around the first curve.
On Monday (April 4) 8 disgruntled senators from his OWN party didn't send him a letter, didn't ask for a private meeting...had an OP-ED piece published in two state newspapers. 
A couple of excerpts:
Yet we feel compelled to express our discomfort and dismay with the tone and spirit of some of the remarks he has made...Instead, we find ourselves continually diverted, responding to yet another example of our chief executive picking a personal fight not worth fighting. "Government by disrespect" should have no place in Augusta, and when it happens, we should all reject it...
"But for him to announce that he would "laugh at the idiots" should they choose to engage in our honored tradition of civil disobedience is another personal attack that only serves to further lower the bar of our public discourse...
Belittling comments, whether they come from the governor or his opponents, have no place in Maine public life. By demeaning others, the governor also discourages people from taking part in debating the issues of the day -- worrying if not only their ideas, but they themselves as people, will be the subject of scorn."
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http://www.kjonline.com/opinion/tired-of-diversions-from-government-by-disrespect_2011-04-03.html#
From time to time you hear of a senior party member taking some young gun out to the woodshed, famously Reagan did that with David Stockman, but this is the first time I've heard of freshmen legislators doing it to the governor from their own party--in public.
For the public humiliation of chastisement by his own party, I nominate Gov. LePage as worst governor of the week.
Addendum:
The mural story isn't over yet.
In a letter first obtained by the Associated Press, Gay Gilbert, a senior U.S. Labor Department official, writes that the federal government appropriated the funds to Maine for the mural.
"We understand, however, that the mural is no longer on display in your headquarters," writes Gilbert. "Thus, it is no longer being used for an administrative purpose permitted by the Reed Act. Accordingly [...] the state must [...] return to its UTF [Unemployment Trust Fund] account the amount of the Reed Act funds represented by the mural."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/labor-department-maine-mural-repay_n_844618.html
Returning the money or putting the mural back up seems fair...and is worth another day in the news to remind voters in Maine what a dolt they are stuck with. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:59 am Post subject: |
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I know the thread is about being "reactionary", but if it was about a politician trying to line his own pockets, Rick Scott of Florida would take the cake.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/gov-rick-scott-solantic-and-conflict-of-interest-whats-the-deal/1161158
If you have a $62 million investment, representing the biggest single chunk of your $218 million in wealth, and you put it in a trust under your wife's name, does that mean you're no longer involved in the company?
Florida Gov. Rick Scott says it does.
Scott has aggressively pursued policies like testing state workers and welfare recipients for drugs, switching Medicaid patients to private HMOs and shrinking public health clinics. All these changes could benefit that $62 million investment, but Scott sees no legal conflict between his public role and private investments. |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the law case reference. Let's discuss it sometime. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| I know the thread is about being "reactionary" |
You needn't take 'reactionary' too literally. Since I'm the OP and I consider 'highly objectionable' as fitting very comfortably under the rubric of 'reactionary', it's OK. (There are other times when I'm stricter about word definitions, but in this case I'm not.) So feel free.  |
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cyui
Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:23 am Post subject: |
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Is Ohio a free enterprise market? Cailifornia is for damn sure.
We all need to live in a Marxist Society. :lol: |
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