Unfortunately for the Governor he will eventually anger the one person who is losing everything, and that one person will be the one to go postal on him. It is a dangerous game he is playing toying with livelyhoods, and making hard working families suffer. It is best if he stops his pointless attack on state workers for his sake and for Marias. I would hate to read the headline about it all.It is a lesson that past figure heads did not get until it was too late. Why he insists on angering unions, and hard working families is beyond unreasonable at this point. I hope that I am wrong about it but I doubt it, the wrong person will be the one forclosed on, and the wife and kids will leave, because they will see him as a failure that can't provide for them adequately due to 15% pay loss. When a man has nothing left to live for what worth does he have except revenge.Words of advice to GAS, and his cronies, ask the guy who drove his big rig into the Capital.Hopefully I am wrong, but history has a way of repeating itself.
Update: Thanks for the Instalink, Glenn.
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According to Bill Clinton, tea partiers who are angry about the trillions of dollars being offloaded onto our children are potential terrorists. Yet here we see state workers making not-so-subtle threats against a governor.
that one person will be the one to go postal on him
That's an interesting idiom to use in defense of government unions, isn't it?
To the person who wrote the above: there are plenty of us who have lost our jobs ENTIRELY, and do not want to continue paying taxes so your spoiled ass can keep collecting an inflated wage.
Be glad if all you get is a 15% pay cut. I don't live in California, and people like you are why.
Wasn't it just last week that a teachers' union official in New Jersey sent out a memo with a prayer for Governor Christie's death?
Hell hath no fury like a government union employee who has to give up the tiniest part of her 'entitlements'.
I'm not so sure about the phrase "I hope I'm wrong".
That fat lazy do-nothing union slug can kiss my ass. I have taken a 40% pay cut since this recession started and more is on the way. I am sick to death of these filthy pig government parasites thinking they are entitled to live it up on my dime in perpetuity.
There is a town in Michigan (I believe) who was laying off fire fighters, and got a whole lot of fires. Now the town re-hires the fire fighters with the Stimulus money. Yes, that Stimulus, the money that the Fed confiscates from us every April 15.
Let's see, now.... Message posted on Monday at 4:30 PM. Previous message posted on Thursday at 3:30 PM. One before that on Tuesday at 1:10 PM. Before that, on Wednesday at 1:10 PM. And Monday at 2:20 PM. But never on a Furlough Friday?
I think he's posting political rants against the government, on government time. Perhaps he's one of the ones that need to be PERMANENTLY furloughed.
This is a great way to reduce govt. So much money will be diverted from govt services to pensions that we will learn to get by without the services, or just do the stuff ourselves. It will be costly for a while, but in the long run it will diminish the govt's reach and influence and result in tax reductions.
I lost my job entirely 1 year ago and have not been able to find work ... in the IT industry.
Imagine how I feel when I read stuff like this?
I can't wait until the public union mutts begin to lose their jobs. Not just a 15% pay cut ... their jobs.
Like the rest of us.
What a pack of spoiled, entitled jackasses.
California should terminate the contract of every single state employee and restaff the entire state workforce with open hiring from the entire unemployed workforce of the United States.
They would get better people.
California would solve most of their problems if they executed Casey Serin.
And the entirety of his Organized Crime Family, to boot.
As if this union thug and his cohorts had ANY say in what happens to their salaries and benefits! As if any of us did. This is really effing hilarious that they are so detached from reality that they don't realize that no amount of taxation, federal government aid--or ANYTHING ESLE--can fix this mess. The state has a $20B operating deficit and a $500B pension fund shortfall. Bwahaha. BWAAHAHAHA! As if we could EVER pay those down with business dying and unemployment skyrocketing.
The author of this threat is living in a previous age where it looked like the golden goose would forever lay enough eggs for him to squirrel away in his greedy, grubby mitts.
Time's up, you big fool. You are a parasite that negotiated so well with your host that your sucked his blood dry. You missed your timing by about two decades. Your retirement? Gone. Your salary? Gone. Your benefits? Gone. Your guaranteed lifelong job? Gone.
You. Just. Don't. Get. It: It's over.
to IC @ April 19 - 11:33 pm:
Re the fires in Michigan
(snip from link)
Flint battles 12 fires since midnight Saturday
By Allison Bush | The Flint Journal
April 18, 2010, 11:32AM
FLINT, Michigan — There have been 12 reported fires in Flint since midnight Saturday, bringing the total of reported fires in April up to 107 — a "gigantic" increase from the 37 reported in the same time period last year, said Battalion Chief Andy Graves.
Graves said this number typically would be out of the ordinary, but that the fire department has responded to between six and 10 fires each day for the last month.
"A typical day would only be about two to four working fires, and we're seeing two to three times that volume on a daily basis," he said. "This is just continuing the string from the last month or so."
(close snip)
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(and, re the recent layoffs)
Any current state worker needs to take a hard look at the PBGC and understand that will soon be the maximum benefit they can ever hope for.
Typical, the use of violence as well as the threat of violence, the oxygen from whence union blood sucking has managed to cling to the body.
As a Michigander, once upon a time unions had a place. At this point in time they have outlived their usefulness and are in fact, harming their members while the top union class hobnobs with the political class watching while they both screw the typical worker.
As far as Flint goes, it is as dysfunctional as Detroit, as is Saginaw and close to as bad, Lansing.
What a mess that's been made here. The top employer in the state is---the state. Something very wrong with that.
When they were talking about cutting doctors' compensation and Medicare payments for Obamacare, you never saw statements like this even though physicians work a lot harder and require a lot more schooling than your average public employee. Where does this ridiculous sense of entitlement come from?
'Walter Reuther' --the whole thing is really sad and painful to think about. Worst of all, it didn't have to be this way. Maybe there's hope yet.
Hay there Arnie. I do hope you guys are not planning to ask the rest of the country to bail out Calilfornia's pension plan. We won't pay. Your half trillion unfunded pension liability is your problem, not ours. There are going to be a lot of homeless old people hanging around the beaches of California in a few years, most of them former government employees who lived high on the hog expecting unrealistic pensions to carry them in old age. Let them sell pop to tourists from the midwest.
If I would be given a chance to speak out my opinion, I think that everybody should be paying for the debts of California and not just the ordinary, regular citizens. Because if this problem won't get resolved, it will carry on to the next generation.
Sacrifice must be done for the good of the country since all of us will benefit in the end. Maybe I'll ask advice from my business lawyer (Ottawa) about this issue.
This cannot work in fact, that is what I consider.
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