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Let’s not forget that the public employ’s collective bargaining contracts were negotiated by politicians that we all elected. The very same politicians that negotiated approved and passed it in the house and the senate got elected with union support. The governor is the one that signed the bill. We are looking in a wrong direction. Last I looked buying votes was illegal. Those very same politicians approved outsourcing of manufacturing in order to break the private sector unions, to appease the corporate supporters. Now we are not working our properties are being foreclosed on, so there is less tax money being collected so the state coffers are empty. Only time people fight over financing is when the money is short. What we need to do is find out where is the missing money, who is hording it, I bet half is misappropriated and the other half is in the hands of the speculators. We seem to like China so much; maybe we can send the unemployed to a work farm like the communist do. Wright now we don’t need that many teachers anyway; between home schooling, charter schools and the internet only the less fortunate are going to public schools.
It is very wrong to blame the unions and the collective bargaining. Without it there is no living wage. How on earth do you suppose that a family can prosper, educate the children and support the community on a minimum wage?
Poverty is passed on from generation to generation, the same as wealth. Chances are that a poor family will stay poor for generations, so please stop bickering amongst each other. Remember Aesop’s Fables. We hired a fox to divide the cheese between us. Now we are complaining that the other person got more than us. The fox will surely take a piece away from the other guy; the problem is that the fox will keep it for himself.