Public Employee Unions Must Be Crushed !

[mjmacky]

What no one has responded to in these last few pages of posts is the fact that Walker won the recall election by a landslide in a formerly democrat stronghold.

Because I don't give a shit about that idiot. There are other governors, more idiotic and corrupt, that draw my attention, e.g. Rick Scott.

[999969999]

It seems that the majority of Wisconsin voters agree with me on this issue.

Does that worry you?

[mjmacky]

It seems that the majority of Wisconsin voters agree with me on this issue.

Does that worry you?

I see what you're doing there, but I kind of already feel like most people are idiots. What additional concern is necessary?

[j2k4]

It seems that the majority of Wisconsin voters agree with me on this issue.

Does that worry you?

I see what you're doing there, but I kind of already feel like most people are idiots. What additional concern is necessary?

Most people are idiots.

Non-idiots are loathe to change this, I think you'll find.

[mjmacky]

I see what you're doing there, but I kind of already feel like most people are idiots. What additional concern is necessary?

Most people are idiots.

Non-idiots are loathe to change this, I think you'll find.

I kind of want to stick to stating opinions to 9s, even if they are facts. That's mostly on the account that he's obviously not real and it would seem a bit strange to freely give tangible information.

[999969999]

Comrade Macky is either the member of some sort of union or has some other reason to like them, but what happened in Wisconsin is quite obvious. Governments simply cannot afford to pay their employees such high wages, give them lavish benefits, and enviable pensions anymore. Those days are over. Public employee unions are dinosaurs. All unions, for that matter, are dinosaurs. When given the chance under the new Wisconsin law, union members left their union in droves and stop paying their union dues. When give a choice, people choose not to be in a union. This spells the doom of unions throughout this country.

The socialist governments in Europe are being crushed by their debts, and whether they like it or not, the days of their government employee driven economies are coming to an end.

Our debts will eventually push us over a cliff and we will have to slash our government to the bone as well.

Something the world seems to refuse to accept is this-- you cannot continue to spend more than you take in forever. Eventually it has to come to an end.

For some strange reason, we fooled ourselves into thinking that we could continue to run trade deficits indefinitely, and these trade deficits eventually forced us to borrow money to keep the economy moving forward, and to keep expanding the government. Government deficit spending and debt is really just a symptom of the underlying cause-- our constant year after year, decade after decade trade deficit. And military spending, too, of course. We have been at war almost constantly since World War II. Unlike Rome we didn't demand tribute. We just borrowed more money to pay for it. Well, it must also come to an end.

We tried to build a global economy on debt, and it seems like we are still trying to go right back to doing this. It simply will not work forever.

The big looming question is not whether this collapse will happen (because it will happen) or when (soon), but what will the world be like when the European Union and the United States are in the middle of the worst economic depression ever experienced?

Another dark age?

[999969999]

I see what you're doing there, but I kind of already feel like most people are idiots. What additional concern is necessary?

Most people are idiots.

Non-idiots are loathe to change this, I think you'll find.

Did someone hijack Kevin's account?

[mjmacky]

Comrade Macky is either the member of some sort of union or has some other reason to like them, but what happened in Wisconsin is quite obvious. Governments simply cannot afford to pay their employees such high wages, give them lavish benefits, and enviable pensions anymore.

Rather, I see the purpose unions function to serve, and the exploitation of wage earners without them is just as obvious. They also served as a political balancing force that opposes complete manipulation of government policy by businesses that have enough money to directly influence government. Now that there are no limits to corporate contributions to political campaigns and unions being stamped out, I guess we can now envision how we approach a completely fascist state of the profit oligarchs.

[j2k4]

Most people are idiots.

Non-idiots are loathe to change this, I think you'll find.

Did someone hijack Kevin's account?

Absolutely not.

I'm sure you will find as your years go by that the masses of people, if not totally ignorant and detached from significant events, are either seeking a way to order their information so it makes sense, or waiting until they are 40-ish before they take the brakes off their mental faculties.

The result is that (slight guess here), at any given time, a slight majority of people don't have a clue, and it only takes a half-wit to stay on top of that lot.

Smart people will that call that crowd content and let them be what they are, because the 'quick-think mentality' of these people leads to things like...Obama.

[mjmacky]

Speaking of which, when are we going to get a socialist Obama, I've been waiting 3.5 years.