I call that a bargain...

the best I ever had....

so Lanny Ebenstein at Wendy's orders is attacking public workers again!!

now we've seen what happens when rightwingers go after the rights of workers....in Ohio and Wisconsin the governors have been slapped for promoting their anti-public worker campaigns....

collective bargaining scares the conservatives because the work force has banded together to keep management honest....the public sector is different from the private sector, so you can't compare the salaries and benefits and say the public workers have no right to make more than the private sector..that's simply bullshit....of course they do!! if I worked for the gov't in a career that demanded I get state certification, that demanded I learn many disciplines, then I become more valuable and the money should rise with my skill levels..and there are plenty of areas where you can climb the ladder in the public sector...but public sector work is mainly service oriented, not profit motivated....that's the key difference..I want professionals running the services I pay taxes for..the water plant, the wastewater plant, the cops and firefighter, the big pipe cleaning trucks and all the work that is done in the city and county that people generally don't hear about until a water main breaks...

we do hear about the private sector alot...most private sector folks understand what's going on but there are still lots complaining about jobs...look, there's plenty of jobs if you're not afraid to get your hands dirty...but the problem is there are a few daisies who are afraid to get their hands dirty, so they run to the big money folks like Wendy McCaw....Nipper did it, and Lanny Ebenstein did it...ran right to Wendy and that's where they hide...behind her skirt! and Wendy DID NOT work for her money, she got it thru a divorce!!! naturally, these people have no work ethic....and continue to view public workers as personal servants...

so when Lanny continues to call for the end to collective bargaining for public workers and cites a study from the conservative Goldwater Institute, I just roll my eyes..here we go again...Goldwater was against labor unions and tried to tie them to communism, which really scares the conservatives! of course it's nonsense but these guys are very fearful by nature and that's why they covet money....it insulates them from the realities of life like WORKING FOR A LIVING AND PAYING A MORTGAGE...a mortage is an unfunded liability by the way!!!

now we know that conservatives in Wisconsin and Ohio tried to bust the unions and eliminate collective bargaining rights...rights that have been in place since the 1950s! and Lanny says that Wisconsin ended collective bargaining and saw immediate benefits...that's nonsense..what happened is voters in Ohio overwhelmingly restored to public employees Nov. 8 their collective bargaining rights that a conservative majority in the state tried to take away led by Gov John Kasich.... a FOX NEWS hound conservative who calls cops idiots...

and Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker ( who spoke at Wendy's Young Miss America Foundation recently) is facing a recall because of corruption and anti-public worker bias...some of his aides were doing political fundraising on taxpayer time....the anti-collective bargaining law he signed is being repealed as we speak...and over one million signatures were gathered to force a recall election....

this is all about curbing union ie working class power: but Ohioans voted to repeal a Republican-backed law that restricted collective bargaining for public workers, a victory for Democrats and labor organizers both nationally and in the state.
AP has declared Issue 2 (as the law was called on the ballot) dead. As of this writing, with about 75 percent of precincts in, repeal led by a whopping 62 to 38 percent margin.
Gov. John Kasich (R) took office in January vowing to curb unions’ power. But he appears to have overstepped his hand in curtailing the rights of 350,000 public workers — including firefighters and police officers — to negotiate over benefits, equipment and other issues.

I think it's kinda stupid to go after people who put their lives on the line everyday or work in hazardous environments to keep the cities safe....but we're talking Lanny and the News-Press here..and ironically, collective bargaining is the time to either restrict or reduce benefits that indeed are excessive....do it at the negiotiating table

and all these folks like Lanny were cheerleaders for the free market greed that caused the financial meltdown which is now in recovery mode...people have sobered up and that's why conservative governors are being recalled...the stock market today is a much healthier place with less huge swings....

it is high time to tax churches casinos non profits and all those trying to fly below the radar....sin taxes are good..booze and cigarettes continue to impact quality of life with higher insurance rates and litter and those mofo drunk drivers...they should pay their own way and stop making taxpayers subsidize their stupid vices!!!

collective bargaining has been going on for years thru good and bad financial times...it's just a political issue for conservatives...Pete Wilson tried to steal public pensions when he was govwenor, and now all the wankers like Lanny are looking at that billion dollar PERS fund as theirs..it's not theirs, it's the public workers who've been investing for their future...if you're in the private sector and you failed to plan ahead, too bad, so sad..every worker should be putting away money for their retirement in some sort of mutual fund so that after twenty years the investments pay off..and there's plenty of folks like Lanny or Arnold or Bernie Madoff who want to steal that money....so regulation of the markets/banks is important because there's just too many crooks who take your money and make risky investments..and lose it all!!!

so here's my advice to Lanny..stop sucking Nipper's dick and get a real job ...AND LEARN TO PAY YOUR MORTGAGE (S).... and stop being a slumlord!!!
and keep your Mitts off the working person's paycheck....