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Unions want to dump pensions on taxpayers
The Daily Caller ^ | 04/06/10 | Aleksandra Kulczuga

Posted on 04/06/2010 7:06:18 AM PDT by rvoitier

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To: rvoitier
Unions want to dump pensions on taxpayers

Why? Why not just make them sign up for welfare instead? They support the party of welfare, so why not just equalize the playing field among democrats? What would they, of all people, have against getting on welfare? Do they think they're somehow better than their fellow Oboma supporters?

21 posted on 04/06/2010 7:46:26 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: rvoitier

So, they are having a problem paying for the rich defined benefit plans they used their power to demand from industry - then put the companies out business with their costs and are stuck. Well you know what they say about paybacks. If it was a company’s pension plan the unions would complain about CEOs salaries and force them to pay. Since they run these plans now, they have no one to blame but themselves. Guess what, those corporate profits you complain about were funding the stock prices in your investment portfolio for the pension. Government isn’t bailing out my 401k losses. After all, the pensions could have all been invested in government securities, but I guess the unions got ‘greedy’. Here is a solution - suck it up and just raise your union dues to cover it or cut benefits.


22 posted on 04/06/2010 7:47:49 AM PDT by GWynand
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To: rvoitier
Let me get this straight. Union leaders misappropriate pension funds by donating them to the Obama campaign, and now instead of going to jail, they get bailed out by the Obama administration? And non-union workers will now be paying the pensions of union workers?

Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints . . .

23 posted on 04/06/2010 7:47:50 AM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: rvoitier

Casey, in the finest tradition of Democrats including Hussein, is attempting to buy the union vote.

Just like Hussein did, and then he delivered big time, with the $787 billion “stimulus.”


24 posted on 04/06/2010 7:49:11 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: GWynand
The Feds are more likely to TAKE OVER your 401k...!!

It HAS been discussed.........

25 posted on 04/06/2010 7:49:52 AM PDT by Osage Orange (A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. - Sigmund Freud)
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To: rvoitier
Dems know their time is limited

Couldn't disagree more.

Immigration reform up next

40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation

Carville
26 posted on 04/06/2010 7:52:11 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: rvoitier

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/04/05/financial/f180113D14.DTL

“Study: Calif. pensions underfunded by $500 billion”


27 posted on 04/06/2010 7:52:53 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Let's Roll
How long do unions, who have priced their goods/services out of the market, think they’ll be able to continue leaching off the dwindling ranks of producers in this country?

If history is any guide, once they price their goods off the market, the government will step in, take the business away from the stock holders, and then run it at a subsidized loss. Meanwhile, the unions will gain semi-ownership of the business and their cush pensions will go on forever. Isn't fascism wonderful?

28 posted on 04/06/2010 7:53:24 AM PDT by farmguy
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To: rvoitier

unions


29 posted on 04/06/2010 7:56:54 AM PDT by FrankR (Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: rvoitier

This entire regime is nothing more than a gang of criminals raiding the Treasury.


30 posted on 04/06/2010 7:57:14 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: rvoitier

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” —Alexis de Tocqueville.

de Tocqueville was right about something.


31 posted on 04/06/2010 8:03:29 AM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- follow the money and you'll find truth.)
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To: rvoitier

Casey is worthless as a Senator.


32 posted on 04/06/2010 8:04:02 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: rvoitier

They’ll TRY anything.


33 posted on 04/06/2010 8:08:24 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: Oceander

repeal NLRA bump


34 posted on 04/06/2010 8:09:58 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: rvoitier

I’ll bet dems back this one - why shouldn’t union retirees get full massive benefits while the rest of the country goes broke? Really. They’re “DEMS” - they’re special.


35 posted on 04/06/2010 8:11:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: rvoitier

http://www.pensiontsunami.com/public.php


36 posted on 04/06/2010 8:15:07 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( FIRE STUPAK: LindaForCongress.com)
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To: rvoitier

Would it make sense to empty out one’s 401K to pay down debt, if this thing gets passed, or before?
I know most people say that’s a no-no, but if the money’s going to be stolen anyway...


37 posted on 04/06/2010 8:21:17 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: rvoitier

I do not think so.


38 posted on 04/06/2010 8:23:37 AM PDT by rahbert (I snap my fingers at the foeman's taunts..")
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To: Zathras

If the state constitution is changed, the court wouldn’t have
a say.


39 posted on 04/06/2010 8:27:36 AM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: rahbert

What do you not think so?


40 posted on 04/06/2010 8:28:09 AM PDT by rvoitier (Progressives are in the GOP, too.)
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