Battle of Wisconsin; Battling Deeply Entrenched Public Employees and Unions; Polls Show Most Americans Support Cuts to Pensions & Benefits of ALL Government Workers:
One of the annoying and most aggravating rags to read is the San Francisco Bay Guardian. If anybody wants to know what twisted Liberals are all about, this is one piece of San Francisco’s pride to read.
With Liberals, it’s always creating policies with other people’s money, not their own.
In a recent editorial by former San Francisco city Supervisor Chris Daly, in No sweetheart deal for Twitter, “but a diverse and dynamic coalition of San Franciscans responded to save the soul of this Left Coast city.
It was an epic battle against displacement, gentrification, and institutionalized racism. We marched, took arrests in the streets, righteously raged at City Hall, and fiercely forged a movement. No longer faking the funk, progressive activists reframed the civil rights debate for the next decade by asking: whose city?
Would San Francisco become only a playground for the rich, white, and powerful while real estate interests and new technology companies prevailed over the poor, people of color, and working-class folks?”
Again, playground of the Rich, White and Powerful Americans is all being stacked into one sentence, eh?
But never mind that Chris Daly is a rich SPOILED white boy himself through inheritances. This is that same guy who once prided himself to be the champion for city’s homeless and for San Francisco renters.
And oh, this is the same guy who pushed for so many pro-rentals and anti-landlord policies; he himself got caught into his own anti-landlord’s trap, and went to Fairfield to buy two houses to become exactly what he despised, a landlord with no rent controls.
This is all coming from the very hypocrite Chris Daly, who also opened up a bar called Daly's Dive Bar and Grill at the Buck Tavern on 1655 Market Street in San Francisco.
The same hypocritical supervisor and tightwad, who NEVER gave a penny of his own money to anybody or anyone, to the homeless or to anything else, but a few hundred dollars for politics, and his piece and voice the San Francisco Bay Guardian, likewise, it’s owned by another rich white American, one who just won multi-million dollars lawsuits against the San Francisco Weekly, his rag, the Bay Guardian has only one person of color on his staff.
They both like to talk the talk about the hated rich white man and support for people of color, but they never truly carry out what they like to preach about. Hey….? If I were truly EVIL, I would print out a couple thousand flyers, and hand them out to all San Francisco homeless; offering "free food" and "drinks" at Chris Daly’s new bar. If someone does that, well heck, it wasn’t me Chris!
Who cares about those GREEDY government employees and their unions? It's the people elected officials have to please. And it’s the very deficit stupid! “Some national polls, have suggested that many people would back cuts to pensions and benefits of government workers.”
What President Obama doesn’t get with his proposed 3 plus trillion dollars budget, and with gutless Washington House GOP/Republicans who still aren’t getting it...VOTER's mandates in recent elections was never about taking money away from the most vulnerable people in America.
Our mandates were to reform out of control military spending, costly pork barrels shenanigans, rising government wastes and fraud and runaway government employees’ salaries, medical costs and pensions.
According to the Examiner, more than half of all union members are government public employees. Big labor and unions spent more than $50 billion dollars combined in campaign donations between 1889 and 2009, with Democratic Party as its benefactors.
Taking on these deeply entrenched public employees and their unions, is going to be tough, as what is happening right now in Wisconsin. The battle has just begun between taxpayers vs. state employees and their unions. It’s definitely a great start towards reining in those excessive public employee’s costs to taxpayers all over America.
“To the average citizen — to middle class, working class families — they’re paying a whole lot more right now,” Governor Walker said. As recently as Wednesday morning, Mr. Walker spoke with Gov. John Kasich of Ohio — to “commiserate” a bit, he said.”
Angry Demonstrations in Wisconsin as Cuts Loom “As four game wardens awkwardly stood guard, protesters, scores deep, crushed into a corridor leading to the governor’s office here on Wednesday, their screams echoing through the Capitol: “Come out, come out, wherever you are!”
Behind closed doors, Scott Walker, the Republican who has been governor for about six weeks, calmly described his intent to forge ahead with the plans that had set off the uprising: He wants to require public workers to pay more for their health insurance and pensions, effectively cutting the take-home pay of many by around 7 percent.
He also wants to weaken most public-sector unions by sharply curtailing their collective bargaining rights, limiting talks to the subject of basic wages.
Mr. Walker said he had no other options, since he is facing a deficit of $137 million in the current state budget and the prospect of a $3.6 billion hole in the coming two-year budget.
“For us, it’s simple,” said Mr. Walker, whose family home was surrounded by angry workers this week, prompting the police to close the street. “We’re broke.”
Events in Wisconsin this week, though, are a sign of something new: No more apologies, no half-measures. Given the dire straits of budgets around the country, other state leaders may take similarly drastic steps with state workers, pensions and unions.
“I’m sure we’re going to hear more from other states where Republican governors are trying to heap the entire burden of the financial crisis on public employees and public employees’ unions,” said William B. Gould IV, a labor law professor at Stanford University and a former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board.
“I think it’s quite possible that if they’re successful in doing this, a lot of other Republican governors will emulate this,” Mr. Gould added.
Here, in a state with a long history of powerful unions, Mr. Walker’s plan was upending life in the capital city.”
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