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Union Rules: Despite No Horses, Detroit Water Department Employs 'Horseshoer'
Capitol Confidential ^
| 8/20/2012
| Jarrett Skorup
Posted on 08/20/2012 5:44:39 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Despite having no horses, the water and sewerage department for the city of Detroit employs a horseshoer.
Yet even with a department so bloated that it has a horseshoer and no horses, the local union president said it is "not possible" to eliminate positions.
Union rules have turned the department into a government jobs program, some critics say...
(Excerpt) Read more at michigancapitolconfidential.com ...
TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2012; bustunions; corruption; democrats; detroit; farrier; horse; horseshoer; liberalfascism; michigan; union; unioncorruption; unions
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To: cripplecreek
You may want this one for the Michigan Ping List.
To: MichCapCon
the city of Detroit employs a horseshoer.
I believe the official job title is Ferrier.
My great uncle learned to be Ferrier during WWI and practiced in Hempstead NY until the mid 1950s when the demand for his services dwindled.
Too bad he didn't live in Detroit - he could still be drawing a paycheck - even though he died in the '60s.
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:02:51 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: MichCapCon
Despite having no horses, the water and sewerage department for the city of Detroit employs a horseshoer. It isn't such a bad idea to keep him on the payroll. I mean, the entire city is collapsing into chaos. Roads aren't paved, city buses are in disrepair. I suspect that within the next couple of years, the city will be using horses as a means of transportation again. It happened in Greece when their Welfare State collapsed.
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:05:15 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: oh8eleven
It's 'Farrier' and this story needs to go viral. People need to understand that Unions are not good!
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:13:47 AM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
To: MichCapCon
"They don't have enough people as it is right now," Riehl said. "They are just dreaming to think they can operate that plant with less."
In other words, "They are just dreaming to think we (the YoonYun) will let them operate that plant with less."
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:16:10 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(Starve the Monkeys!)
To: liberalh8ter
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:17:29 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
In the meantime, they can make the whole government wear horseshoes.
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:18:59 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: MichCapCon
Is it possible that this farrier is used for the City of Detroit’s mounted police unit?
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:27:05 AM PDT
by
madison10
(You can ignore reality, but you canÂ’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
To: liberalh8ter
NP. You could still probably submit a resume for your deceased Uncle. Since this story is out, they may need to fire the farrier they have (and hire a new one).
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:27:20 AM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
If anyone wants to be added to the Michigan Cap Con ping list, let me know.
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:28:08 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: MichCapCon
That position would still be needed if he worked for a police department that had a mounted division like New York but the water department?
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:28:30 AM PDT
by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
To: Hardraade
In the meantime, they can make the whole government wear horseshoes. They have to in order to support the horses a**es that spend our $.
To: OldMissileer
Perhaps the motor city hasn’t heard that there’s a new invention that some are calling a horseless carriage.
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:35:07 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: MichCapCon
Who occupies this position and what does he do all day?
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:37:23 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
("The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum [of good]")
To: chrisser
This will be an interesting battle. An outside analysis firm says the Detroit city water dept. Needs about 400 employees to make it run efficiently. It currently has 2000. Also the water Dept. has some 250 job classifications(apparently including "horse shoer"), and the analysis team said it needs only about 40. Me , personally I am very pessimistic about Detroit being able to turn it around. In the words of Corporal Hicks from the movie "Aliens" :
"I say we nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure"
CC
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:45:08 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Q: how did you find America? A: turn left at Greenland)
To: Celtic Conservative
Me , personally I am very pessimistic about Detroit being able to turn it around.
That's what the emergency manager law is for. Unfortunately Detroit is fighting it every step of the way. Personally I would compromise and make Dave Bing the emergency manager. We wouldn't get all the cuts you or I would like but there would be big cuts.
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:50:46 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: oh8eleven
"Too bad he didn't live in Detroit - he could still be drawing a paycheck - even though he died in the '60s."
Not to worry - even if he can't get paid the Democrats will make sure he still votes at least two or three times each election...
(Not slamming your great uncle of course, may he rest in peace - just noting the indecency of the left)
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posted on
08/20/2012 6:57:13 AM PDT
by
FortWorthPatriot
(Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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