Thursday, December 19, 2013

a Lover's Concerto

how gentle is the rain, that falls softly on the meadow....

so Wendy the News-Press is fervently hoping some funny polls will spell the end of unions in California...one poll cited 1000 voters and less than half said unions were losing favor...


and when a city goes bankrupt, the conservatives blame the unions and public sector workers...the buzz word is "unfunded" liabilities....and all the myths the conservtives like to tell...

but if you own a mortgage, you know what the realities are: A funding gap does not need to be closed in a single year, but the payments can be spread out (or "amortized") over a number of years—governmental accounting standards permit a pay-down period of up to thirty years. Most people do not currently have assets that come even close to 70 percent of their mortgage obligation. For most states and localities, filling funding gaps will be manageable. Researchers at Boston College project that if total contributions increase by just 2.2 percent of payrolls, state and local governments can pay off the total unfunded liabilities in 30 years.

Wendy has been fighting her small union situtation with the fervor of a big corporation...geez, talk about making a mountain out of a molehill...when it comes to unions, Wendy and Nipper are clueless...as are her pet monkeys, Lanny and Andy....the News-Press is always pushing nonprofits as saviors..but as we've seen, they are mostly self-serving ponzi schemes

 
now the truth is unions aren't going anywhere....of course, not every business needs or wants a union.....if you don't like unions, you go elsewhere for work or start your own company or divorce your rich husband...

if you hate unions but love the symphony, then you gotta know the musicians who play all that lovely music are union members...

The Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association and the American Federation of Musicians-Local 308 are very pleased to announce that a new three-year collective bargaining agreement has been ratified, taking them through the 2015-16 season....

union members are working class folks who demand a fair shake..and there's nothing Wendy can do about it...

although it is entertaining to watch her keep trying to bust the unions....the sick bitch just looks twisted....

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