Apologies for being redundant but is this sickness a new malady? No? It didn't seem to have hurt Obama....why is it going to poison the well for Clinton?Just as aside...how long do you guys think you should have to work before you can retire?
Most often your examples are not the case and what isn't reported when you see something like that is that in most cases, the week-to-week pay is lower than the private sector and the are usually no bonuses paid to public employees. Yes, there are exceptions to that on the lower end of the skills spectrum (the guy picking up dead animals on the side of the road probably makes more than the guy delivering Pepsi--he should).
Again, this is a political discussion. If your candidate's single claim to fame is that he "fixed" the problem of people retiring after 25-35 years of service, that is going to win him a lot of votes in non-union states. In union states, the same claim to fame is going to hurt him. The electoral map is such that if you take the 2012 election as template, the GOP needs to swing 64 votes. The purple states of:
Guy, here's the problem. Folks in Union states are pretty sick of that sort of shit, too. We are sick of the teacher who can't be fired when he shows up drunk to your kid's class and sleeps until fourth period We are tired of the fat truck driver who gets paid time and a half for sitting out in a snow plow on a sunny day.
And we are getting really sick of sales taxes and property taxes and income taxes to pay for it all.
Romney said he likes to fire people which is in essence what you're talking about and he lost every state (almost) that was contested.
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Will decide this election. The math tells us that the GOP needs 4 or 5 of them to flip. Many of them are union states. Joe correctly pointed out that there are not that many union households. I agree but those households with non-union employees (in many cases) have parents who benefited from union membership or have union sympathetic voters (Joe said he would like to have a union job). Are they going to vote for the guy whose soul accomplishment was to eradicate those jobs?
But going through your list of states, they ALL have Republican governors right now... except for PA and VA.
Union bashing is not going to cost Walker in the General. There simply aren't enough union guys left who are up for grabs.
I forget....who won OH, WI, PA, and MI in 2012?