Republicans are attacking union policies. Policies that if gone unchecked would bankrupt many states. Jobs were saved because of these cuts.
Now YOUR DEMOCRATIC GOV IN NY DIDN'T WANT TO FACE REALITY AND PROMPTLY GAVE PINK SLIPS TO 8K UNION WORKERS.
I bet those teachers, firemen, cops would have all opted for cuts rather than lay offs.
Op can you ever make a post that can't be easily exposed as ideological bs?
They want to cut 200,000 children from the Head Start preschool program.
So there it is: tax cuts mean school cuts. And health cuts. And safety cuts. This is the RepublicansÂ’ jobs program: lay off thousands and thousands of workers.
And in Florida, Rick Scott, our teabag Governor, our Thief in Chief, announced yesterday that he wants to cut taxes on the rich and corporations by $1.7 billion, and (coincidence, of course), cut school funding by $1.7 billion.
Tax Cuts = School Cuts | West Orlando News Online 2011® Central Florida News
In its Jan. 31 memo to legislators on the condition of the state's budget, the Fiscal Bureau determined that the state will end the year with a balance of $121.4 million.
To the extent that there is an imbalance -- Walker claims there is a $137 million deficit -- it is not because of a drop in revenues or increases in the cost of state employee contracts, benefits or pensions. It is because Walker and his allies pushed through $140 million in new spending for special-interest groups in January.
Wisconsin Gov. Walker Ginned Up Budget Shortfall To Undercut Worker Rights
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The unions were always willing to deal. Republicans want to destroy the unions because Republicans get their money from corporations.
Now what's funny to me is Republicans trying to blame so much on unions when they are less than 12% of all American workers. Less than 12%.
Now, what about CEO's getting hundreds of times more pay than the average worker? What about health care CEO's who get paychecks of over $100,000,000.00? (see Aetna and Cigna) They skim that money off policies. The number one cause of bankruptcy are Medical Bills. But Republicans want to blame teachers and firefighters and policeman.
Come on. Get real.
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The number of American workers in unions declined sharply last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, with the percentage slipping to 11.9 percent, the lowest rate in more than 70 years.
Fewer workers belonged to unions in 2010