Posted on 07/26/2020 3:27:48 PM PDT by cotton1706
The American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) launched a national ad calling for Congress to provide $1 trillion in financial assistance to states, cities, towns and school districts in the next coronavirus relief package.
The union that represents public sector workers will stress that without more funding, its members will be laid off or furloughed and schools won’t be able to open safely, according to plans first shared with The Hill.
“The coronavirus is wrecking state and local budgets. If the Senate doesn’t act, it will mean painful cuts to essential public services across America. Fewer teachers and nurses, longer response times, dirtier streets but some say our states should just go bankrupt,” the ad says, referring to remarks from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in April that local governments could declare bankruptcy.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
They want their insane pensions paid.
Fixed it, eff'n lazy ass union employees. Nothing much more that takers. Never built anything in their lives. They just take, and take some more from hard working people that actually do something real with their lives. They are pathetic POSs.
Yep. Let them get laid off and suffer like everyone has had had to. Better yet, no more public sector unions for people like teachers, janitors, secretaries, etc,
President Trump should Demand States cut their Employee’s Salaries by 30% if they want Federal Help, they should Share the Pain,
Gubbermint employees are the best at enforcing and understanding regulations or laws that are anti-business. They have no concept of supply and demand, risk, customer relations, or return on investment. They are not concerned about the economic impact of their decisions.
They live on the back of those that are actually productive.
Their value is merely theoretical, abstract, in many cases emotional but what did the EPA really active when shutting down the last lead acid battery factory in Texas? Some essential services have a value, but that is the MINORITY share of the government budget. What do they achive busting a pot grower? What do they really achieve regulating drones? What did they achieve with their ridiculous FAA medical standards years past for a private license? What do they achieve with most of their local cops writing tickets all day long...
Ultimately, the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen because most of these jobs in government are in some fashion about taxing or regulating the private sector, or they are in defense and a massive security appararus.
Government only does two things: consume and redistribute wealth. Thwy don’t create wealth.
City, county, and state budgets will have a +25% revenue shortfall so far this year. Public employee unions hit hardest - - on the backs of taxpayers.
Who will blink. Will taxpayers bend over and pay dramatically higher property and other taxes - - or will the mob be stopped, and union goons fired.
Okay, but not for Democrat run cities where they let rioter run wild destroying everything in sight and then want taxpayers from other states to pay for the damage.
No more $$$$
Just put your property taxes in an escrow account until these unions get lost or dissolve. They can’t touch your property until there’s a sale.
Not one damned dime!
Take a hit l8ke the rest of us. Say a 20% decrease?
Plummeting tax revenues from businesses & individuals. Ending of foreclosure moratoriums (property taxes for schools, etc.)
The list is long, I’m sure.
i call them A**holeme’s they do nothing all day and get paid.. NO bail out mondy for public employees unions
Afh scumee.
Let governments lay off ALL employees, if you want to see the shutdown end.
+1. Without private business paying taxes and of course working people, there is not money for government to do a thing. SHUT IT DOWN....better than any budget battle. In WA and OR, they are having workers do 32 hours of work, and collect $600 a week in unemployment to save State money, and fleece the taxpayers. In WA, there are still people who have not gotten UE money that were laid off in March.
In Tacoma WA, they are using $750,000 on a homeless tiny home village. The funds were supposed to be to help people with mortgages. It is more important that they give homes to the helpless, hopeless, homeless.
Same here. Lots of useless city workers. Managers and supes got their wives and kids into jobs without requisite experience or brains. Lots of workers promoted up the chain to get rid of them from a group, and couldn't perform. When I was a junior-level programmer, a supervisor in a different group got my help in coding his programs, I don't know how he passed from junior to senior to supervisor; he eventually made it to a high level IT director of another department, without computer skills. When I was a senior systems expert working on building a 911 site, a high-paid manager kept offering to do errands for me, answering my phone, taking messages, getting me coffee, etc. I asked what he did, he said he didn't know. He was a friend of the mayor and got appointed into the department. That crap sickened me because I worked my butt off moving up the ladder over years. Many of the people were poor performers.
Running out of our money.
Prices dropping here, especially gasoline.
Gasoline would be under a dollar with homeschooling.
We are paying twice and more.
Their taxes/property taxes and
Their salaries benefits inflating prices.
Well then I suggest they donate the money they are spending on these ads.
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