Posted on 10/22/2006 8:56:46 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Are these the kinds of increases YOU are getting in YOUR position in the PRIVATE sector?
The tentative three-year contract, which must be approved by the supervisors and ratified by members of Service Employees International Union, Local 660, would give most union members raises totaling up to 15.5 percent.
The contract also calls for a 10 percent increase in the county's contribution to employee health plans and a benefit that would require the county to pay $75 to $375 a month to help employees pay for child care.
The contract would boost some workers' pay as much as 30 percent and union officials hailed the deal as key to helping the county retain and hire more nurses and help lift workers who now qualify for food stamps out of poverty.
This is the Fantasy half of the equation/ingredients that make Liberals.
Was the question ever raised--Where is the money coming from?
Of course, the answer is THE TAXPAYERS.
Was the idea that ILLEGAL ALIENS do not pay taxes, and that Illegal aliens are a considerable fraction of L A's Population ever mentioned?
So, in their mind, you just award a wage, and there is this well that never goes dry and has unlimited capacity where officials can draw from for wages.
NO wonder 25% of of Los Angeles hs moved to another State
In a few years, you will have to choose which Civil War you want to start first, the one between the legal Americans and the illegal invading aliens, or the one between the private sector which is getting their salary cut or getting laid off, losing their retirement and health care, and watching their taxes, local, state and federal, go out of sight, and the public sector employees who are getting fat raises and cost-of-living adjustments, better health care for life, and cushy retirements, all paid for by those luckless private sector losers.
And the Republicans and Democrats just don't give a damn.
$375 a month for CHILD CARE? Don't have them if you can't afford them.
That is unsustainable. SOMEONE is going to have to pay for this, Guess who? You can bet rich Liberals will protect their tax loopholes.
What's laughable is that the very people "celebrating" and anticipating these lovely wage increases won't be so happy when they realize they won't see any of it. They will be taxed away.
Democrats will never learn that this kind of sillyness is inflationary. The only way to raise the standard of living is to lower it's costs, rather than to keep asking for more money, which in turn comes from increased taxes, raising the cost of living. An endless cycle which began when nanny state idealists began raising taxes to pay for the government institutions which eat up most of the money and help no-one.
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." - Alexander Tyler
amen
democracy in america...de toqueville (?) to paraphrase, america will cease to be a great power when her people begin to vote for themselves government largesse.
'the truth is out there"
Exactly why we have a constitutional Republic. The only thing democratic is the election process.
Private enterprise is supposed to provide the needs of the people. Government was never supposed to get into private business, just handle the nations business and national security.
I can see what the next demand is from this particular articel. Daycare space. They will be screaming that there aren't any government run daycares to begin early socialist indoctrination.
Then they will be demanding more money because $375 a month isn't enough to pay for expensive, government run daycare.
After taxes, I got $8.50 a week. It could have been worse, 25% of the staff got laid off.
This is just another example of government workers living in a fantasy world.
The contract is nothing but a payoff to get them to vote for Angelides for governor.
Simply breathing is merit enough for the bureaucrats.
I have to deal with county bureaucrats often, and I can say, I have never seen such an inefficient, wasteful organization in my lifetime.
As an example, almost 300 new cel phones were stolen from the water department. They did not report the phones stolen to the cel phone carriers, and paid the bills on each of those phones for 2 years.
Avg life is 200 years. oops.
No doubt. But no worries. They'll raise the money to pay for this. SIN taxes are always popular and easy to sneak in budgets. Booze, cigarette and gas taxes, licence fee increases, and other regalatory fees are always a handy tool that makes it appear that general tax increases are being held down, but these back door taxes can add a lot to the general revenue cookie jar.
Why does the county hire nurses?
See post#16.
Medicaid, county run nursing homes, schools, public health services.
ref. voting oneself government largesse....
think it was de toqueville in "Democracy in America"
a number of the founding fathers might have said the same....not sure.....one might check the federalist papers.
thanks for your post. going to make me read some more.
We believe in the union, the worker almighty, creator of overtime wages and more ..
and to the contract for which it exists, unbroken, till we decide to .. screw you, and to you and to it.
Yep .. it's a religion .. services once a month at the hall or bar .. bring your tithe.
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