I got mine, screw the rest of ya!
On Feb 21, 5:12*pm, dxAce wrote:
Joe from Kokomo wrote:
Joe from Kokomo wrote:
dave wrote:
"In principle, every American citizen has an equal say in our political
process. In practice, of course, some of us are more equal than others.
Billionaires can field armies of lobbyists; they can finance think tanks
that put the desired spin on policy issues; they can funnel cash to
politicians with sympathetic views (as the Koch brothers did in the case
of Mr. Walker). On paper, we re a one-person-one-vote nation; in
reality, we re more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of
wealthy people dominate.
Given this reality, it s important to have institutions that can act as
counterweights to the power of big money. And unions are among the most
important of these institutions.
You don t have to love unions, you don t have to believe that their
policy positions are always right, to recognize that they re among the
few influential players in our political system representing the
interests of middle- and working-class Americans, as opposed to the
wealthy. Indeed, if America has become more oligarchic and less
democratic over the last 30 years which it has that s to an
important extent due to the decline of private-sector unions."
-nyt krugman yesterday
On 2/21/2011 11:19 AM, dxAce wrote:
Poppycock!
No 'poppycock' at all. The Wisconsin unions offered financial cuts and
give-backs towards their pensions and health care, but the governor
rejected their offer out of hand.
In the governor's case, the finances had nothing to do with his agenda;
he -does- want to get rid of collective bargaining. The guv wants to
bust unions, pure and simple.
Steve, from your posts here, you appear to be just a little guy, not a
wealthy individual. Why are you so hell-bent on giving away the store to
Big Business?
On 2/21/2011 1:12 PM, dxAce wrote:
Why are YOU so hell-bent on giving away the store to Big Government?
Well, at least Big Government will provide a large variety of services
for its citizens -- libraries, paved roads, traffic lights, fire and
police departments, Social Security, Medicare, etc, etc, etc.
Big Business will grab you by the ankles, turn you upside down and shake
every last nickel out of your pocket.
Gee, that sure sounds like Big Government!
The GREED of Wall Street (Big
Business) brought you the Great Recession that we are in.
Nah, it was the likes of Barney (give it to me in the ass) Frank.
Big Business,
with a Trillion (with a 'T') dollar, all-time high, record profits, will
not resume hiring. Now that they have down-sized the daylights out of
the work force, they love those record profits that they are getting out
of a reduced work force.
I hope you have and/or can afford medical insurance with YOUR
pre-existing medical condition(s). The Big Business insurance companies
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Reminds me of the 'Barney Song' .
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