Tapper: "There Is No Correlation" Between Collective Bargaining Rights And State Deficits
February 27, 2011 1:27 pm ET
From the February 27 edition of ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour
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Double ditto.
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The real discussion should be about the fact that the current status between states and unions is based on Contract Law which locks in a previously negotiated agreement. Are Repugs now against enforcing contracts? Further, the discussion seems to imply that the entire budget has been scrubbed for excess spending, all other cuts have been accomplished and that everything remaining has a higher priority than honoring the States contracts with the workers.
Last, the negotiated total compensation package is the agreed 'fair market value for services' immediately provided and includes current payments and future payments (benefits).
The State selfishly demanded that they defer some of the payment for current services received and now are blaming greedy workers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorkChoices
The Union campaign was a doozy.
Nikki Haley, YOU LIE!
And it hasn't been said enough that this governor created the budget shortfall by instituting tax breaks. Before that their budget was balanced.
Why isn't this being reported?!
Because the media is just too darned liberal, I guess.
I can't figure out why that prank phone call isn't all over the main stream media. That's the smoking gun!!!
I do agree with you on the hoax videos. Kurtz the putz was on CNN this morning comparing the hoax videos to the prank phone call. What a false equivalency!!!
I'm more perplexed over especially Matthews and Maddow completely ignoring that PP called the police on the LiveAction d-bags. Why would they just ignore that those videos are nothing but a hoax, especially after the House voted to strip PP of their funding? Matthews let a pro-lifer bring up those videos at least 5 times and never said a word, and Maddow does something on abortion rights almost every night and never brought it up. The hoax videos are even being brought up on the House floor, yet no one says a word. It's very disappointing.
The British had them transported to Van Diemen's Land and the U.S. employers sent in armed thugs - often in uniform. Ah, good old traditional conservative values!
Always, always on the wrong side of history, but there's still plenty of misguided fools willing to suit up for them. Hopefully, like the police who've joined the protestors against Walker, more people will see the light and come play on the winning team.
The march of human history is always tied to the notion of the community acting to protect the welfare of the individual. Without he support of the community the individual is powerless. Without the individual the community will stagnate. When the relationship between these two entities gets out of whack injustice results.
This absolutely true! Then Nikki Staley proceeds to lie about the Wisconsin public sector workers saying they have NOT offered any concessions in pay and benefits cuts. The right lies over and over. This is union busting, Governor Scott Walker has said this in so many words.
No, a variation of the Moron Syndrome.
HOWEVER, that is not really what they want to control. They, the GOP, want to break the unions fiscal power on elections. And that is not justifiable.
I think the response should be to abolish lobbying on ALL sides and levels. I think we should limit the amount of money spent on elections and add campaigns. No corporate spending, no union spending, no NRA lobbying for guns on university campuses (sigh). We have allowed special interests groups to write legislation that is not effective, but allows them to benefit.
We are not a democratic republic, we are now a oligarchal plutocrary. The wealth is concentrated in the hands of the very few, and that wealth is power.