I still keep wondering what part of “the state is broke” don’t these people get?
The ironic part is that in the 60’s, a lot of what is now the public sector Left, saw the state as the establishment enemy.
What goes around, comes around or “ we have met the enemy and he is us”
Roh roh, dissension in the ranks. When one lives off the politics of division, they had better watch out for the proverbial bite in the back-side.
This is all the proof anyone needs that Obama is in over his head and too f*cking stupid for the job he holds.
It is HE who has implored the citizens to hate those who have been feeding at the trough, although he calls them rich, Wall Street types. But Goldman Sachs, JPM, or any of the rest have stuck their hand in my purse and stolen money intended for my own use, or to use on behalf of my family (unless via gov’t bailouts). No one has ever forced me to buy a big screen TV, an IPad; I don’t have to use Warren Buffett’s Geico insurance either. I can also avoid Microsoft and enriching Bill Gates, if I wish.
But what I CAN’T avoid are taxes. And no group of people are more greedy than those drawing salaries funded by confiscatory taxes.
Why is it okay for the POTUS to “stoke” to fires of envy but not okay for the voters to respond to his call?
Just another episode of the chronicles of unintended consequences. The voters will lash out not at the titans of industry, but those who are truly “in their face” and picking their pockets via taxes.
Poetic justice, it says here.
If California would drop the Greenies an start drilling off their coast they could get out of trouble with no problems.
I might add the United States could use the same solution.
Stop tossing money down the entitlement hole and start drilling for cheap energy.
Worry about the environment after we save the economy.
If I get this right, a California (or any state) bureaucrat, with a vested interest in the outcome of the negotiations, especially for a higher pension, is negotiating with the labor unions who demand, and get, higher pensions.
In any other business, this would called “insider trading” and is illegal.
SWEET. I’d love to watch the public sector unions have to get into a street fight in California of all places to save their seat on the gravy train.
That should embolden Republican legislatures and governors in the Midwest to go on offense and really hammer these goons. Right to work laws across the Midwest would do a great deal to reignite stagnant economies.
If California has to pare down unions goodies as an absolute last resort, the unions are indeed in trouble.