ok now we know that the Daily Sound ain't very sound anymore....so where do you go to write your column? well, if you're Randy Alcorn, you go anywhere you can, except your own blog! now I know that Randy used to work for Wendy at the News-Press until she cut him loose..I bet Randy never saw it coming but when you got your head up her ass, you don't see the sunshine, do ya Randy!!
anyway Randy went shopping his views to the Daily Sound and Noozhack...wow, what a step up! Noozhack makes me laugh because it's just soooo bad and Billy Mac is a rightwing nonprofit loving cop-hating punk...and he hires an intern to do the Cat Cora story and the intern copied the story from somewhere else and signed his own name to it! so typical of these boobs!
ok so Randy Alcorn is complaining about public employee unions and calls them barnacles and invasive weeds...fuck, I got another freakin nativist on my hands..a little guy with a Hitler complex...but really Randy must be auditioning for Lanny's spot at the New-Press editorial desk...saying all the rightwing stuff about unions causing the economic issues we see today especially with the Stockton and San Bernardino cities filing for bankruptcy....
now really, do I think cops or firefighters or any other public employee who has paid into his or her own retirement account for the last twenty or thirty years are causing the economic issues of today..of course not....what has happened in the last ten years that has caused billions of dollars to be pissed away, many of those dollars from retirement accounts..well, let me count the ways....AIG, ENRON, JP Morgan, automobile companies, banks..all these private entities had one thing in common with the bankrupt California cities: poor and corrupt management....the CEOs getting huge sums of money for ruining companies...or the CEOs stealing investors money....how long do think you can operate anything in such a reckless manner...it's got nothing to do with unions or public workers, many who bailed out the banks and who may have to pay for the mistakes of the greedy executives.... and all the tentacles reaching out to of their capitalist cronies...
and the news keeps coming about corporate malfeasance....negotiated contracts of public employees is not malfeasance, it's what happens every four years...
swords into plowshares
so Randy daily sounds like a typical conservative teabagger with the anti-public worker sentiment..the fatal flaw in his argument comes when he claims being a cop is no more dangerous than being a farmer or truck driver...he cites some bogus study: The argument made to justify their exorbitant compensation is that their work is so dangerous. Yet, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration consistently list 10 occupations that are more dangerous than police or firefighter, among them commercial fishing, logging, farming, mining and truck driving. How many workers in these more dangerous jobs retire early with fat compensation packages?
but Randy can't see beyond his nose..any job that requires you carry a gun, a baton, and handcuffs is a dangerous one that requires specialized training..and that PUBLIC SERVICE job needs to be compensated..oh yeah, they keep the drunks off the road, too! it's got absolutely nothing to do with being a farmer!!
is Noozhawk also against the expensive pensions of military folks:
Military retirement/disability benefits: $3.6 trillion
Obligation per household: $31,200
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have contributed to a 46% increase since 2004 in the cost of pension, medical care and disablity benefits for former service members.
Biggest jump: a 71% increase since 2004, to $1.3 trillion, in the cost of future pension checks to retired military personnel. The funding shortfall for the disability program rose to $1.5 trillion, up 54% since 2004, and to $900 billion for retiree health care, up 32%.
These numbers reflect the liability of those programs in today's dollars. Actual spending will be much higher over the years.
no unions here... just stupid decisions by Americans to invade poor countries..
and some military folks can retire after 15 years of service, then go to work for a municipality and get another pension..this is all fine by me because they deserve it if they worked for it...period...
paying for all this is not that difficult unless the folks running the investment and accounts are corrupt..then when the losses are brought to light, these free market dogs blame the public worker!
...public workers will continue to pool their resources in places like CalPERS, that invests in the markets but take hits like everybody else when those investment sour....or makes profits when the bulls run.... so it behooves everybody to bring some accountability back to the free market and people will get paid..not screwed over by crooks!
pension envy
now, it looks like Randy has pension envy and that's tough shit..he needs to get out and work and plan for the future...but he won't make very much money writing nonsense for the News-Press or Noozhawk, believe you me....if you're gonna be a successful parasite, get a stronger host!
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