Repugnicants no longer want to pay for their Police State (Christie)
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Subject: Repugnicants no longer want to pay for their Police State
(Christie)
Date: Feb 24, 2011 6:44 AM
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Fine with us:
http://www.actionlyme.org
The people can't get past the porkers:
http://www.actionlyme.org/080924.htm
And while we're at it, we need to fire
the entire DHHS.gov, USDOJ.gov and the
Supremes because those three claques
of idiots are clear examples of Taxation
and Vaccination without Representation.
Oh, and fire the entire "Intelligence"
structure, because there were no WMDs,
Bush told us all he was going to do
Iraq for the oil in the Gore Debates:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/msg/e066f6566802741e?dmode=source
WTC7 was a controlled demolition, Chalabi
was a known liar, and there is no
supervision of Defense Contracts.
The State Department is not about
foreign policy but global resource
policy.
Try to think of one thing Americans
are capable of doing correctly...
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/23/christie-brag-break/
Gov. Christie Brags About State Layoffs: ‘Unions Are Trying To Break
The Middle Class’
Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) has been gaining lots of attention at the
moment for his attempt to strip collective bargaining from many of his
state’s public employees, essentially busting their union
legislatively. But he is far from alone among Republican governors in
trying to take a pound of flesh from his state’s working people.
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), for instance, proposed a budget yesterday
that holds property tax rebates for seniors hostage to benefit cuts
for public employees: if public sector workers don’t agree to the
cuts, property tax rebates don’t go out. And of course, Christie has
rhetorically bashed teachers’ unions since he came into office, in
order to score political points. During an appearance on MSNBC today,
Christie actually bragged that his state leads the nation in terms of
public sector layoffs, claiming that “unions are trying to break the
middle class”:
USA Today recently said that New Jersey has shed by percentage
more public sector jobs in the last year than any state in America.
And the reason we’ve done this is because our government was bloated
and too big at every level…In New Jersey, we’re not trying to break
the unions, the unions are trying to break the middle class in New
Jersey, through the expenses. And they’re close to doing it.
Watch it:
Because of his mass layoffs of public employees, the number of
unemployed workers has actually increased in New Jersey since Christie
took office. And Christie’s assertion that unions are not good for the
middle class is quite troubling.
As David Madland and Karla Walter pointed out, “the middle class is
markedly stronger when workers join together in unions.” In fact, the
decline in unionization rates over the last forty years has been
almost perfectly mirrored by a drop in middle-class incomes. Income
inequality in the U.S. is the worst its been since the 1920′s, with
nearly 25 percent of the total income in the country going to the
richest one percent. The richest 10 percent of Americans control
2/3rds of the country’s net worth.
When unionization rates were high, prosperity was broadly shared, and
workers were able to enjoy their fair share of productivity gains. But
the overall economy is also stronger when unions are strong: “From
1947 to 1973, the period when unions were strongest and nearly one-
third of workers were organized, U.S. economic output nearly tripled
in size, growing at an average of 3.8 percent annually.” Since 2001,
economic output has been just 2.2 percent annually.
KMDickson