CreativeDominant
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I'd like to know how those Republicans do not represent the people of their district...you know, the same ones who voted them in?
I think they DO represent the people, but most of the people there are mentally fucked in the head, so the end result is rather comical. Have to love that about you leftists...anyone who is from the right is mentally deficient in some way through your eyes. Yet, most of those who have build the corporations from which the left gets the majority of its tax base from are conservatives from the right. Also have to LoVE the level of gracious civility being shown from you and others from the left in this discussion. Find me an instance where I resorted to questioning your mental faculties.
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The people voted for a tea party candidate that ran on government non-intervention into business affairs, and those same people are now wanting their elected tea candidate to intervene and set wage controls on a public worker segment of the population - all because a growing number of taxpayers are increasingly finding themselves non-competitive in a global free market and unable to handle their share of the resulting tax burden. And he isn't interfering in business...he is interfering in the public sector, a sector controlled by the legislators---which happens to include the governor---and paid for by the taxpayers that the legislators represent. And no, it is not all because the taxpayers are unable to handle their "share"...it is because while those same taxpayers are having to give up more and more of their money to keep a job, they are are expected to bear the burden of higher taxes to pay for better benefits of those the taxpayer employs. Better benefits than many of the taxpayers themselves enjoy, along with higher wages than many of the taxpayers...the wage payers for the public sector...enjoy. They're weary of it. And the public sector employees have no right to expect it to continue at the rate they would like to see it at.
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A guy that ran on a 'bankster bailout resentment' theme is now supposed to intervene, take away bargaining power, and effectively bail out those poor taxpayer types who were dumb enough to 'give it up' and lose ground to their boss man years ago and land themselves behind the 8-ball in the first place? Apparently, all that anger is not about the *act* of a bailout, but *who receives* a bailout. Again...why should the public sector be the only sector of the economy that continues at the same rate as they've been enjoying? Especially a portion of the public sector who, if they were private citizens, would have been fired due to poor performance within their jobs. While you may depend on the taxpayer for your wages, there is no "right" to continue digging into that taxpayer.
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Rich thinks that status as a taxpayer is all that is needed to ensure that smart people in the public sector never exceed the pay and bennies of the dumbest guy in the private sector - because that dumbest guy is the lowest common denominator among the bill payers. In his mind, taxpayer status trumps free markets.
Wake me up from your bizarro world. There is no truly free market. We have the closest thing to it...but even ours is not. And those teachers are ALLLLLLLLLLLLL free to leave the public sector, take their degrees and put them to use in the private market. Anytime. I don't see a huge bunch of them doing that though...do you? And taxpayer status IS the result of free markets. Public sector employees are the triumph of the government over free markets. And if you don't think so, tell me why public school teachers and the progressives in the government are so dead set against scholastic choice.
What a massive attempt at Obama-esque "social engineering of equality", resulting in an overall lower standard for everyone, being carried out by the tea-elected guy.
Holy fuckin Christ, what kind of 'free market' guys are you? Where the hell is your 'invisible hand'? Presently wrist deep up your ass?
We are free market guys who believe that a person should be retained in their job because of the job they do, not because of their seniority. We are free-market guys who believe that pay should be based on performance, not on seniority or levels, such as that set by the government on their civil service employees.
Despite your contortions at presenting this as "social engineering of equality", it is merely a legislator doing what those who elected him wanted him to do...bring the budget down. He is doing so by going after an area too long considered sacrosanct...government union workers.
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