Big Fitz
User Quit *****
- Nov 23, 2009
- 16,917
- 2,522
- 48
They haven't. Hence the temper tantrum now, with organization help from P-BO and his ilk.A 12% increase in health care costs, and 5% into their pensions.If these teachers would stop and think for themselves, they would see they are being asked just to help pay more for their own benefits, and not much more at that. They are not losing their collective bargaining rights for the future if the economy stabilizes.
Most people realize that we all have to bite the bullet and my guess they have uttered those words themselves at some time or another.
The president came out in favor of the unions was no help; saying these were your friends and neighbors, well so are the taxpayers who don't have jobs and sitting in the bankrupt states! As usual, the man does not have a clue. His SEIU slush fund stifles the brain. And he's too busy running for 2012 to think of the country.
Or 20k people are to be fired.
I think the math is pretty damn easy. Take the cut and keep working while paying more into your own benefits.
But, I'm starting to wonder if it's really about this or continuing unrest from around the world here in an effort to tear down western civilization. Is this just opportunism, or is it a coinkeydink?
If they had not already made consessions over the last few years, I might agree they are acting unreasonable or illogical, but that is not the case. And these professionals have bills just like you do, so if your wages were cut 17% , could you afford your home and other obligations? I doubt it, because most people are indebted and living pay check to pay check.
Don't ask to dance if you can't afford to pay the fiddler, seems to come to mind here.
Well, if the union wins, the benefit is that there will be 20k jobs ended reducing the total state worker total to about 280k.
But of course you have a ready list of all the concessions the WI public employees have already given in the last 10 years?
If it was me on the line and I had to choose between a 17% pay cut or firing? I'll take the damn pay cut and have to find a new way to make ends meet, just like I do now. So, what would YOU do in that same scenario?