Posted on 08/30/2017 9:56:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Even as Hurricane Harvey once again demonstrates the essential nature of public safety agencies, few Americans know that the Democrat political machine has been systematically robbing local police, fire and health care services throughout the nation of lawfully mandated funds, intentionally depriving local people throughout the nation of essential first responder services.
Government derives much of its moral authority to tax from its obligation to provide public safety, health and education. Yet as public-sector pension plans create ever-greater demands upon local and state financial resources, The Democrats’ machine funnels so much tax revenue into the corrupt bargain the party made with unions that states and municipalities must rob local public services of funds in order to give their constituents outrageous salary increases, bonuses, benefits and what is called “other pay.” There are two types of demands for this money: salary increases and pensions. Even while revenues increase, the demand for public pensions and salaries has grown so fast that it has outrun the increases in tax revenue. And rather than stabilize pensions or go to 401K type plans, municipalities and states have chosen to violate the Constitution and cut back on essential government public services.
The growth of public sector pensions is rarely discussed by the mainstream media, since the big four public sector unions; the SEIU, AFSCME, NEA and AFT, who collectively have four million members, donate virtually all of their campaign money to Democrats at the local, state and national levels. For example, in Washington the four big unions give 99% to 100% of their national campaign donations to Democrats
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Good article. Thanks for posting.
Sister Sue needs a job and the money for the condo in Kauai has to come from somewhere.
The unions don’t want to hear it, but if the public has to choice between police and fire protection or paying for public education it is public education that will be cut.
The Internet has all the information children need—the trick is to get them to want to learn it.
The bloated educational bureaucracy is going to disappear—maybe not in my lifetime, but I believe it will happen in this century.
Sure keep pumping dollars into law enforcement, give them military grade equipment. Then watch big city mayors and governors tell their cops to stand down.
Trick; indeed!
Most folks do not WANT to learn anything!
Very few in grade school are there because they WANT to be; but because they HAVE to be!
And no one is FORCED to learn anything; as the gummint (you taxpayer saps) will support the non-learners for LIFE!
Now then; just WHO was it in this little story that actually learned how to survive?
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