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Cost savings from worker contributions to health care and retirement, taking effect today as part of the new collective bargaining laws, will swing the Kaukauna School District from a $400,000 budget deficit to an estimated $1.5 million surplus, the Post-Crescent in Appleton reports.



http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/124727554.html


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Kaukauna Area School District projects $1.5 million surplus after contract changes to health care, retirement savings



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Imagine that...

Money taken away from honest working people and given to corporations and the wealthy in the form of TAX CUTS.

All cheered on by right wing idiots who hate average working people with a passion. The right wing idiots who are in favor of keeping huge tax cuts for corporations and the extremely wealthy in place, while cutting services for the poor, the elderly, and the disabled.

Why do you fucking assholes hate your fellow citizens so much? Why do you love corporations and the wealthy so much? Why do you want to finish the destruction of the middle class? Driving down wages and benefits does NOT help the country in any way, dumbshits.

What the fuck is wrong with you assholes?

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Imagine that...

Money taken away from honest working people and given to corporations and the wealthy in the form of TAX CUTS.

All cheered on by right wing idiots who hate average working people with a passion. The right wing idiots who are in favor of keeping huge tax cuts for corporations and the extremely wealthy in place, while cutting services for the poor, the elderly, and the disabled.

Why do you fucking assholes hate your fellow citizens so much? Why do you love corporations and the wealthy so much? Why do you want to finish the destruction of the middle class? Driving down wages and benefits does NOT help the country in any way, dumbshits.

What the fuck is wrong with you assholes?



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Rant on my friend

Then go read the articles and see what you missed

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Or not:D
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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Going to be fun to see the courts bitch slap the NLRB related to the Boeing case

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Your rant in direct relation to the post put me at odds. It seems there is a complete ideology conundrum with what you say.

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Why do you fucking assholes hate your fellow citizens so much?



It seems to me you have no problem having the same citizens spend money on other people's health care and social services, but when it comes time to require for the same people to spend the money on their own well-being, and everyone becomes "fucking-assholes" as you so eloquently put it. What is the problem with "...honest working people" to honestly take care of themselves?

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Your rant in direct relation to the post put me at odds. It seems there is a complete ideology conundrum with what you say.

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Why do you fucking assholes hate your fellow citizens so much?



It seems to me you have no problem having the same citizens spend money on other people's health care and social services, but when it comes time to require for the same people to spend the money on their own well-being, and everyone becomes "fucking-assholes" as you so eloquently put it. What is the problem with "...honest working people" to honestly take care of themselves?




Cool... the honest working people work harder for their TRICKLE crom the corporate masters.......mmmmmm TRICKLE

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All cheered on by right wing idiots who hate average working people with a passion. The right wing idiots who are in favor of keeping huge tax cuts for corporations and the extremely wealthy in place, while cutting services for the poor, the elderly, and the disabled.



Solution - tell the unions (which are corporations) to refund the dues money to these employees. After all, the unions are there for the workers, right?

Ohhhh. Wrong. A union giving money to anyone but a politician? Not gonna happen.

it's too bad you cannot see all sides of this. It's too bad that you care so damned little about the taxpayers that you think they all should support chosen class. Go tell the 75 percent of the people making less than these poor government employees how they should pay more taxes in order to make sure they are okay,

I dare you! Because you don't give a rats ass - PERIOD - about the rest of the people. You've got your chosen class. The anointed.

And face it - you're a lackey for the greed of corporations. Namely unions, who cut millions off the top of the salaries of these people. While you're telling the working man and woman that they should poay more to support the government employees, tell the unions that they should quit taking millions from these employees.

Yeah, right. You like those corporations. They can fuck over their members without any accusations, right?

You don't give two shits about taxpayers. Or about workers. You give a rats ass about corporations, greed, and the chosen elites whom you feel everyone should just pay up to support.

You DESPISE the working class. You HATE Joe sixpack. You CANNOT STAND that they don't want to pay taxes so that your cronies can receive more benefits.

FUCK THE WORKING MAN!!!! GO FICK HIM! FUCK HIS KIDS! FUCK THEM ALL! Government employees need free health care and retirements! And FUCK THE ASSHOLES WHO WON'T PAY FOR IT.

You just don't give a shit about the working people. Only those who work for the government.


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All cheered on by right wing idiots who hate average working people with a passion. The right wing idiots who are in favor of keeping huge tax cuts for corporations and the extremely wealthy in place, while cutting services for the poor, the elderly, and the disabled.



Solution - tell the unions (which are corporations) to refund the dues money to these employees. After all, the unions are there for the workers, right?

Ohhhh. Wrong. A union giving money to anyone but a politician? Not gonna happen.

it's too bad you cannot see all sides of this. It's too bad that you care so damned little about the taxpayers that you think they all should support chosen class. Go tell the 75 percent of the people making less than these poor government employees how they should pay more taxes in order to make sure they are okay,

I dare you! Because you don't give a rats ass - PERIOD - about the rest of the people. You've got your chosen class. The anointed.

And face it - you're a lackey for the greed of corporations. Namely unions, who cut millions off the top of the salaries of these people. While you're telling the working man and woman that they should poay more to support the government employees, tell the unions that they should quit taking millions from these employees.

Yeah, right. You like those corporations. They can fuck over their members without any accusations, right?

You don't give two shits about taxpayers. Or about workers. You give a rats ass about corporations, greed, and the chosen elites whom you feel everyone should just pay up to support.

You DESPISE the working class. You HATE Joe sixpack. You CANNOT STAND that they don't want to pay taxes so that your cronies can receive more benefits.

FUCK THE WORKING MAN!!!! GO FICK HIM! FUCK HIS KIDS! FUCK THEM ALL! Government employees need free health care and retirements! And FUCK THE ASSHOLES WHO WON'T PAY FOR IT.

You just don't give a shit about the working people. Only those who work for the government.




+10 +10 +10+10 couldn't have said it better myself. Greedy union hacks.>:(

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Your rant in direct relation to the post put me at odds. It seems there is a complete ideology conundrum with what you say.

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Why do you fucking assholes hate your fellow citizens so much?



It seems to me you have no problem having the same citizens spend money on other people's health care and social services, but when it comes time to require for the same people to spend the money on their own well-being, and everyone becomes "fucking-assholes" as you so eloquently put it. What is the problem with "...honest working people" to honestly take care of themselves?




Cool... the honest working people work harder for their TRICKLE crom the corporate masters.......mmmmmm TRICKLE



Obviously you don't work for a rich person. How well does that homeless employer pay?
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Your rant in direct relation to the post put me at odds. It seems there is a complete ideology conundrum with what you say.

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Why do you fucking assholes hate your fellow citizens so much?



It seems to me you have no problem having the same citizens spend money on other people's health care and social services, but when it comes time to require for the same people to spend the money on their own well-being, and everyone becomes "fucking-assholes" as you so eloquently put it. What is the problem with "...honest working people" to honestly take care of themselves?



Cool... the honest working people work harder for their TRICKLE crom the corporate masters.......mmmmmm TRICKLE


Obviously you don't work for a rich person. How well does that homeless employer pay?


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All cheered on by right wing idiots who hate average working people with a passion. The right wing idiots who are in favor of keeping huge tax cuts for corporations and the extremely wealthy in place, while cutting services for the poor, the elderly, and the disabled.



Solution - tell the unions (which are corporations) to refund the dues money to these employees. After all, the unions are there for the workers, right?

Ohhhh. Wrong. A union giving money to anyone but a politician? Not gonna happen.

it's too bad you cannot see all sides of this. It's too bad that you care so damned little about the taxpayers that you think they all should support chosen class. Go tell the 75 percent of the people making less than these poor government employees how they should pay more taxes in order to make sure they are okay,

I dare you! Because you don't give a rats ass - PERIOD - about the rest of the people. You've got your chosen class. The anointed.

And face it - you're a lackey for the greed of corporations. Namely unions, who cut millions off the top of the salaries of these people. While you're telling the working man and woman that they should poay more to support the government employees, tell the unions that they should quit taking millions from these employees.

Yeah, right. You like those corporations. They can fuck over their members without any accusations, right?

You don't give two shits about taxpayers. Or about workers. You give a rats ass about corporations, greed, and the chosen elites whom you feel everyone should just pay up to support.

You DESPISE the working class. You HATE Joe sixpack. You CANNOT STAND that they don't want to pay taxes so that your cronies can receive more benefits.

FUCK THE WORKING MAN!!!! GO FICK HIM! FUCK HIS KIDS! FUCK THEM ALL! Government employees need free health care and retirements! And FUCK THE ASSHOLES WHO WON'T PAY FOR IT.

You just don't give a shit about the working people. Only those who work for the government.



The best times in the USA were back when taxes were highest on the top earners in the country. Right now, taxes are at their lowest level, across the board, for everyone. Yet moron bastard shitheads are led to believe that taxes are TOO HIGH, and that TAX CUTS will make everything right. Cut all social services, borrow money from China to pay for the tax cuts, and the economy will recover. Reaganomics, assholes. That shit is voodoo economics. It doesn't work. We have been doing that for 30 years, and look where we are.

The corporate media has gotten even educated people like lawrocket to start shitting on everyone who isn't rich. Lawrocket bought some property a few years ago. How'd that work out for you? Underwater much? Happy with the banking system and regulators? Didn't think so...

Working people, either government or privately employed, have seen their real wages GO DOWN for the past 30 years, while the wealthiest people have had their incomes SKYROCKET, due to the tax policies implemented by the politicians that they buy like chattel. These same people control almost all of the media and get dumbasses, aka, the right wing sheeple, to support policies that are REALLY BAD for the dumbasses. The dumbasses keep lapping up the bullshitand regurgitating it. The dumbasses are incapable of digesting the material. They can't understand WHY things are the way they are. LOOK IN THE MIRROR, assholes.

The fuckwits that think that screwing over public and private employees by reducing their wages and benefits are cutting ALL of our throats, not just the short term victims. You scumbags are driving the middle class in the USA off a cliff, happily and with great glee. For some reason the fact that YOU are going to be victims too, as society disintegrates, is completely beyond your ability to comprehend. You follow the corporate masters and screw over your fellow citizens, and appear to be rather proud of it.

What the fuck is wrong with you assholes? Why do you hate the middle class and average people in the USA so much that you are willing to drive wages and benefits down so as to pay for TAX CUTS for corporations and the wealthy? Thanks for your hard work at ruining the USA. When your shit goes down the tubes you'll be standing there wondering how it happened.

Medicare for ALL people in the USA was the correct answer to the health care nightmare. That "socialized medicine" system WORKS!!! It works really well, except for the money wasted keeping nearly dead people going for a few extra months. The USA is the only first world country that allows FOR PROFIT medical insurance companies to operate. Why do we let one third of the dollars spent on medical costs to disappear into the corporate pockets as profits and obscene salaries for executives? Because they have the money, own the politicians, and own the media outlets that fool people into thinking that we have a great system.

You weasel shits that squawk about "SOCIALISM" can't even explain what it is. The explanations from the weasel shits make it sound like all government services are BAD.

Fire services, police services, public roads, public parks, public beaches, and public schools are all examples of "SOCIALISM" that works. A single payer system that provided a basic level of medical care for ALL citizens, would save us all a ton of money. No more 30 pecent GONE in overhead and salaries. The "death panels" that whipped the RWCs into a frenzy are already in place. It is the bean counters at the insurance companies that are the "death panels". Their pay and bonuses depend on how many people are DENIED insurance coverage for medical conditions.

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The dumbasses keep lapping up the bullshitand regurgitating it. The dumbasses are incapable of digesting the material. They can't understand WHY things are the way they are. LOOK IN THE MIRROR, assholes.



Yeah, but we keep hoping you'll snap out of it.

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The fuckwits that think that screwing over public and private employees by reducing their wages and benefits are cutting ALL of our throats, not just the short term victims.



Reducing their wages and benefits? Nope - just making THEM contribute to it instead of the Wisconsin taxpayers.
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The best times in the USA were back when taxes were highest on the top earners in the country.



which times were these? Back when women and minorities weren't part of the workforce? When the rest of the world was still rebuilding from war? But no, it's only the tax rate that matters. You missed everything lawrocket wrote there.

when state or fed or city employees get a generous contract, it's the rest of the tax payers that pay for it, either in the form of higher income taxes, or sales taxes, or $62 parking tickets.

San Francisco just passed a 6.8B budget. It has 780,000 people. That's 8700$/person!

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They do not give a rats ass about worldly things.. since most of them thing they are going to get raptured out of here next year... leaving those godless Chinese holding the bag for all the debt.

You did mention how the real wages of many Americans have been going down... and now the Koch brothers and their buddies want to make sure all their bought and paid for little minions ensure the only people its not been going down for are hurt just as the rest of Americans (other than themselves in their tax protected zero taxes paid corporate offices) have been hurt financially.

I like to call this the right wing cesspool effect. They look at their shitty little lives living in their day to day minion status of getting shit on... and want EVERYONE else to join them down in thier little shitholes. Its like all the Texicans who live in a polluted air and polluted water getting all kinds of strange skin and other diseases.... STILL support their right wing politicians who wish to get rid of the EPA ( for the corporate good of their masters alone) so that EVERYONE gets to live in the same kind of polluted cess pool that they live in.

They wish to DRAG everyone else down to their level.... the American dream USED to be to elevate everyone... that left da house in 1981 with Reagonomics.... the idiots are too fucking stupid to see where this is going. At this point... I am good with making preparations for when all this shit crashes... there will be no corporations... there will be no economy.... but I will enjoy shooting the fucking zombies...:ph34r::ph34r:

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At this point... I am good with making preparations for when all this shit crashes... there will be no corporations... there will be no economy.... but I will enjoy shooting the fucking zombies...:ph34r::ph34r:



Most of the corporations aren't going anywhere and will be around long after most governments collapse.
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Hey Dude
Here is your good old days

To be clear, it is not government taking your money, it is the gov you love so much

http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/01/news/economy/white_house_salaries/

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141 White House staffers make six figures


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At this point... I am good with making preparations for when all this shit crashes... there will be no corporations... there will be no economy.... but I will enjoy shooting the fucking zombies...:ph34r::ph34r:



Most of the corporations aren't going anywhere and will be around long after most governments collapse.




Cooooooool... more zombies for all of us to shoot after the collapse....:ph34r:

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Indeed, Amazon. The people getting free health care, retirement, and making more that 80% of the rest of the population are not greedy at having to contribute to their health care and retirement. It's the people that ARE paying for it that also have to pay for their own health care and retirements that are the greedy ones.

Are you fucking high?


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Solution - tell the unions (which are corporations) to refund the dues money to these employees. After all, the unions are there for the workers, right?

Ohhhh. Wrong. A union giving money to anyone but a politician? Not gonna happen.



Most people who work in a union shop do so for the purpose of being represented by a union. I work in a union shop, we're right to work and we're 92% organized. That means that 92 out of 100 of our workers have chosen, voluntarily, to pay union dues to that evil union. I should point out that I am one of the 92% and wouldn't have it any other way.

Why? Because I know that my elected leaders look out for my benefit, the benefit of my family and my workplace. They also negotiate fairly with my employer, especially when times are tough financially.

Union's are responsible for the 8 hour work day, the 40 hour work week, vacation pay, sick time pay, etc. If those benchmarks weren't set by unions and their workers, the non-union employers would not be providing them today. They provide them to stay competitive and to keep the employees from voluntarily unionizing.

Only individuals and political action committees can make direct contributions; unions are barred from donating treasury funds to a political campaign. In layman's terms that means they can't use my dues money that I VOLUNTARILY give for political uses. Instead, they have developed a Political Action Committee Fund (PAC). I voluntarily donate to that fund also. Why? Because I know that overall they work to educate members of Congress and support those that support me and my employer.

Yes they sometimes donate some of my voluntarily given funds to a candidate that may support an issue that I'm not on board with but they still have my best interest in mind overall because my union doesn't take a stand on those hot topic issues such as gun control, abortion, gay marriage, etc.

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it's too bad you cannot see all sides of this. It's too bad that you care so damned little about the taxpayers that you think they all should support chosen class. Go tell the 75 percent of the people making less than these poor government employees how they should pay more taxes in order to make sure they are okay,

I dare you! Because you don't give a rats ass - PERIOD - about the rest of the people. You've got your chosen class. The anointed.

And face it - you're a lackey for the greed of corporations. Namely unions, who cut millions off the top of the salaries of these people. While you're telling the working man and woman that they should poay more to support the government employees, tell the unions that they should quit taking millions from these employees.

Yeah, right. You like those corporations. They can fuck over their members without any accusations, right?

You don't give two shits about taxpayers. Or about workers. You give a rats ass about corporations, greed, and the chosen elites whom you feel everyone should just pay up to support.

You DESPISE the working class. You HATE Joe sixpack. You CANNOT STAND that they don't want to pay taxes so that your cronies can receive more benefits.

FUCK THE WORKING MAN!!!! GO FICK HIM! FUCK HIS KIDS! FUCK THEM ALL! Government employees need free health care and retirements! And FUCK THE ASSHOLES WHO WON'T PAY FOR IT.

You just don't give a shit about the working people. Only those who work for the government.



Is it safe to assume that you're a fan of Senator Tom Coburn? You seem to have a huge disdain for those employed by the United States Government. For years, the USG has been considered as a model employer for the private sector. Is everything perfect? Of course not. But you seem to advocate having a workforce that has no employer sponsored retirement program at all.

Do you even know how government employees retirement works? For those hired after 1984 they have the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). FERS is only 1/3 of their retirement package, with 1/3 being intended to come from the Thrift Savigns Plan (which carries a 5% employer matching contribution) and Social Security.

So in the last four years, the GOP has attempted to attack 2/3 of this retirement program. Former President Bush wanted to privatize Social Security and turn it into a quasi-401K program. Now, Senator's Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-NC) have proposed to completely eliminate FERS for new-hire government employees. In the end, the GOP would have government employees relying solely upon their Thrift Savings Plan, which I'm sure at some point in a GOP controlled future government would no longer have an employer matching contribution.

So you're saying, "Hey, we appreciate the 30 years of service you've given to the United States Government. Here's you're last check and hopefully you've invested wisely in the Thrift Savings Plan (aka Stock Market) over the last 30 years. Yes, we know you're wife has cancer so another way to say thanks is we've increased your employee contribution to your health benefits plan too."
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Most people who work in a union shop do so for the purpose of being represented by a union.



Dude, you are barking up a tall tree to those on this board who vehemently oppose unions. They are convinced that union people are lazy, uneducated commies not worth what they are paid. They are convinced that unions are the downfall of failing companies. Pick any woe in society and they contribute the problem to unions.

I've work for a good number of years as a union welder in a factory. Every person in that plant worked for the dollars they earned. Being lazy didn't cut it. If you didn't do your job has described, you were gone. The union would not back a person who refused to do his/her job.

Hussmann fought the union for years, until they realized that the union was on both sides. Without the company, the employee did not have a job. Without the employee, the company did not produce a product. Sadly for more than 1000 employees (myself included) when Ingersoll Rand (they pay no taxes to the U.S. government) bought out Hussmann they lost their jobs. Jobs were sent to Mexico and China. There was nothing that the union could do to stop the exportation of American jobs. Hussmann was doing over 1 billion dollars in sales, so it had nothing to do with keeping the company from failing. Hussmann is the largest commercial refrigeration company in the world. They operate on a global scale. It was the employees and the union that made them such. It was the greed that is Ingersoll Rand that put so many out of a job. How American of them.
Guys like Lawrocket, Marc Rush, and others here will never understand the need for unions.
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Most people who work in a union shop do so for the purpose of being represented by a union.



Dude, you are barking up a tall tree to those on this board who vehemently oppose unions. They are convinced that union people are lazy, uneducated commies not worth what they are paid. They are convinced that unions are the downfall of failing companies. Pick any woe in society and they contribute the problem to unions.

I've work for a good number of years as a union welder in a factory. Every person in that plant worked for the dollars they earned. Being lazy didn't cut it. If you didn't do your job has described, you were gone. The union would not back a person who refused to do his/her job.

Hussmann fought the union for years, until they realized that the union was on both sides. Without the company, the employee did not have a job. Without the employee, the company did not produce a product. Sadly for more than 1000 employees (myself included) when Ingersoll Rand (they pay no taxes to the U.S. government) bought out Hussmann they lost their jobs. Jobs were sent to Mexico and China. There was nothing that the union could do to stop the exportation of American jobs. Hussmann was doing over 1 billion dollars in sales, so it had nothing to do with keeping the company from failing. Hussmann is the largest commercial refrigeration company in the world. They operate on a global scale. It was the employees and the union that made them such. It was the greed that is Ingersoll Rand that put so many out of a job. How American of them.
Guys like Lawrocket, Marc Rush, and others here will never understand the need for unions.



I don't think you are getting the whole picture. The private sector unions are doing what they are supposed to do. Its the public sector unions that are in an unholy alliance with the politicians.

In the private sector, if pay and benefits out do what the company can support, the company goes under. There is an incentive to keep the budget balanced.

In the public sector, the union will back what ever candidate will give them the biggest pay raise. Screw the tax payer. Most people only vote by name recognition anyway. Just get the name out there.

Its really easy to regulate public sector jobs. Unions are not needed. How much did public sector unions donate to Obama's campaign again?
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