"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast"
-Oscar Wilde		 Brilliant at Breakfast title banner "The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself."
-- Proverbs 11:25
"...you have a choice: be a fighting liberal or sit quietly. I know what I am, what are you?" -- Steve Gilliard, 1964 - 2007

"For straight up monster-stomping goodness, nothing makes smoke shoot out my ears like Brilliant@Breakfast" -- Tata

"...the best bleacher bum since Pete Axthelm" -- Randy K.

"I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." -- "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (1954-2015), They Live
Monday, January 24, 2011

Monday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said
Posted by Jill | 5:55 AM
Today's honoree: Yellow Dog, for The Great State Bankruptcy Con Game.

Money quote (repeat this to your wingnut friends over and over until it sinks in):
Because the real goal is not balancing state budgets: the goal is demonizing public employees in order to eliminate the largest remaining source of decent-paying middle-class jobs.

If you envy public employees whose jobs seem more secure and better-paying with better benefits than your job, destroying those jobs won't improve your situation by a dime.

Labels: ,

2 comments
Bookmark and Share
2 Comments:
Anonymous tata said...
If you envy public employees whose jobs seem more secure and better-paying with better benefits than your job, destroying those jobs won't improve your situation by a dime.

Destroying public employee unions will make almost everyone's lives demonstrably worse. It's pretty simple, really. When unions are busted, secure, taxpaying people with modest incomes stop having the security to contribute to the consumer economy and can't pay their taxes. Next thing you know, your little towns' small businesses go belly up and your municipal governments cut services. No one can afford a house in your Galtian wasteland. Then your state's broke and you're Alabama.

If you're rich, though, this is the funniest scenario EVAR.
1/24/11, 1:58 PM  
Blogger Ema Nymton said...
.

"If you envy public employees whose jobs seem more secure and better-paying with better benefits than your job, destroying those jobs won't improve your situation by a dime."

Agree!

It is amazing. Working for the government is a challenging profession, requiring honest dedicated people. The people doing the jobs are professionals and must be trained. It may glib to say 'any one can do the work' for the departments of Motor Vehicles/Public Health/Tax Collections.

For a governor of a state to attack the professional public servants is beyond belief. Untrained cronies working at government jobs are the worst possible mix of money and power.

Ema Nymton
~@:o?
.
1/25/11, 8:54 AM  
Post a Comment
<< Home