and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 04/28/2011 8:52:12 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
FROM THE “NOW WE’VE SEEN EVERYTHING” DEPARTMENT
Pigs have flown. Hell has frozen over. Democrats have voted overwhelmingly to strip police officers, teachers, and other municipal employees of their collective right to bargain over health care.
This is not a misprint, nothing is wrong with your computer, and the Rat’s not lost his mind (yet).
Remarkably, the 111-42 vote was led by Democrats, who say the new bill will save millions of dollars for financially strapped cities and towns. Democrats? In Massachusetts? This is the state that will probably build a Teddy Kennedy theme park some day. What the hell is going on here?
Where are the Hitler posters? Why have these politicians not been vilified by the “mainstream” media? Why has Barack Obama not strapped on his comfortable shoes and headed to Boston to “walk those picket lines”? Why hasn’t His Awesomeness even bothered to saunter down to the White House press room and make snarky comments about the Massachusetts Democrats? The answer? Let’s spell it out loud together:
H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y.
While unions fought hard to stop the bill, they have kept their threats to a minimum, (for now) saying only that those who voted for the bill could lose union backing in the next election.
“It’s pretty stunning,’’ said Robert Haynes, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. “These are the same Democrats that all these labor unions elected. The same Democrats who we contributed to in their campaigns.” Mr. Hayes sounds like he has buyer’s remorse. The Rat sure hopes he kept his receipt.
“We are going to fight this thing to the bitter end,’’ added the union boss. “Massachusetts is not the place that takes collective bargaining away from public employees.’’ Rumor has it that, following his comments, Hayes was immediately presented with the “understatement of the year” award.
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo (a Democrat) said the following: “By spending less on the health care costs of municipal employees, our cities and towns will be able to retain jobs and allot more funding to necessary services like education and public safety.’’
What on earth has gotten into the Democrats in Massachusetts? Rational thinking and fiscal responsibility are strange bedfellows to liberals, especially when it comes to unionized labor. Uncle Teddy is surely rolling over in his grave these days.
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You don’t suppose Obama will take a lesson here, do you? Me neither.
Pigs were airborne in Georga yesterday.
Wow!
Maybe because they know the senate won’t pass it?
This crisis is worse than we thought if the dems are throwing the unions under the bus. They run out of union money they are done.
The hawg squeals “gimme more” and you realize that to feed the hawg all it wants is going to starve everyone else,”hey you know I love you hawg,but I ain't got—but puh-leeze—don't stop the campaign contributions.”
No honor among thieves,right?
In other Masachusetts news, the Ded Kennedy Dynamo Memorial Power Plant set a new RPM record today...
When pigs fly, you get hit by pig crap. Old Chinese taxpayer saying.
They will pass a watered down bill with preplanned loopholes. They will then declare with great pomp and ceremony that rats are the true guardians of the people. They have just demonstrated how the rats and the unions can work together (after pretending to fight) for the good of the taxpayers.
So vote for the democrats and support the unions and beware of the republicans and the billionaire and trillionaire friends.
Ah, yep. Also likely to slip in an unconstitutional provision, and "forget" severability, and one judge shopping trip later, the whole thing is gone.
Sorry, no sale.
There is obviously more to this than meets the eye. The unions would give the rats permission to bring up and vote on this bill only if they knew it was toothless, or there were arrangements made in advance to offset the alleged impact of the legislation. No, pigs are not airborne. This is a charade, believe me.
Why do you subject FR to your tripe? Why can’t you write satire as good as this true stuff?
Here in NJ the Dems kept the public sector union votes; the trade-off is that there are less public sector union voters now. Lots of cops, firemen, and teachers lost their jobs in the last year or so, and it will continue to get worse as long as the unions don’t make concessions to save those jobs; the taxpayers can’t - they have nothing left. The left is hailing the number of school budgets that just passed the ballot box as some kind of victory, while ignoring two major points: many who would have opposed the increased spending have already lost or left their homes, and because of the property tax cap any increases in school spending have to be offset by cuts elsewhere (such as police, fire, administrative) - it is a $0 sum game. The latter in no small way contributed to the number of school budgets that passed; previously we would be jacked from all directions, now it is a case of a set amount being added to your property taxes anyway, so where do you want it spent? Anything not wasted on schools would have been wasted elsewhere by the municipality.
In other words, states have spent decades wasting billions of TAXPAYER dollars on unions. If it's good to cut these things now, why not 50 years ago? THey were costing the same then.
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