The Union that can't figure our what it represents.
The Union that keeps piss out of your urinals. Whatever.
The American Federation of State, County, and Municpal Employees..
Together, we can make the Union Workers life easier.
Annual wage and benefit increases...no matter the economy.
Worker benefits, like overtime for work on 9/11 (they should be paid more because on that date seven years ago terrorists killed 3000 people - why?...go figure).
AFSCME.........YOUR FRIENDS, FOR A PRICE.
The Union that changed the meaning of "public servant" to "holders of hostage" regarding public services...pay up or no services.
AFSCME....guaranteeing retirement benefits you and I will never equal. Sooner than you and I will ever qualify for. AFSCME. Your friend. Like your constant companion...similar to fungus, athlete's foot, flu, and begnign prostate hypertrophy.....with you till the end.
Am I possibly indicating my orientation toward this particular group of self-serving uncivil servants? Oh damn....please forgive me.
Ah. So you clearly don't like the unfair pay and unfair benefits these union workers receive.
Well, I happen to agree with you there...BUT do you have the same disdain for CEO's who get golden parachutes even as they drive their company into bankrupcy? Do you have the same disdain for professional athletes who negotiate multi-million dollar contracts? Do you have the same disdain for people who have inherited their wealth (which is a large percentage of multi-millionaires today) and they make millions of dollars a year on their trust fund and ONLY have to pay capital gains tax?
Are you generally against unfair compensation, OR are you just another typical Republican hyporcite who only minds unfair compensation when it goes to the under-class of people that you TRULY disdain?
If you are an honest free market Republican, then you would applaud anyone who manages to work the system to make WHATEVER salary they make. That's Capitalism in action, Right?
But you miss the effect of the protestant ethic on the USA. Author Max Weber wrote back in 1904 about the old Calvinist idea that those whom God had "elected" for salvation could be recognized by the earthly prosperity he rewarded them with (There was no other way to tell. God wasn't talking!)
Weber said that what survives of that in a more secular, but still capitalist, world is the notion that the Rich deserve everything they have by virtue of the fact that they have it. Their wealth shows that they're God's favorites, hence by definition deserving of all good things. QED
Greed on the part of the Poor, on the other hand, is still subject to normal moral condemnation--and gets a ton of it.
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