liberal decisions tend to reinforce labor agreements which tend to stymie innovation.
then companies move on and the union blames the company.
sort of like the buggy whip analogy
the issue i have with retirements is simply this. for most rank and file including military, police, and at least half of government workers, is that they gave up a higher paying salary to work for the government in exchange for job security and lifetime benefits. i'm actually ok with that.
where it becomes a problem is with the upper echelon and government carving out benefits for themselves above and beyond that. when general's retire, they don't really need protective retirement benefits like people who retire at e9, as they can easily get a job in the private sector typically for more money, while the e9 can not.
we have lost site of the idea of what the protective retirement was set up for. it wasn't set up to double, triple dip, transition to a higher salary, often in the same line of work for a different city, with transition retirement benefits to supposedly attract the "best" talent.
i am FOR a reasonable retirement system for public employees. i am NOT for a lucrative golden parachute retirement package beyond what the plan was set up for in the first place. a way to reward people for choosing to work for us, the taxpayer.
the retirement system shouldn't be set up with incentives for abuse where trustees can bribe their way to riches, have meetings in hawaii and live beyond the intent of the retirement system for public employees.
everyone probably has relatives who perform public service and hold them in high esteem as do i. unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to rein in the abuse and extravagant payouts to those at the "top" who shouldn't have any reason to get a pension beyond the original intent of the pension in the first place.
we have lost our ability as a society to teach our children to save for their future. once they have been desensitized to that "reality", it is too late, as once they reach 40 or 50 when they see the destruction it causes, they haven't provided for their future and are behind.
r the refusal to even attempt reasonable use where the air or environment are not poisened.Natural gas will -As far as people reproducing:I dont think natural gas or fracking is part of thier decision,if there is one at all.Attemts to reduce reproduction in this country are shouted down as an Obama terrorist threat-so WHICH SIDE OF THAT FENCE ARE YOU ON? AND HOW OLD WAS OBAMA IN THE 70s-when the debates and bills were first introduced?It also looks like everyone is a communist or a hypocrite,because everyone is subject to some form of subsidy:as stated several times..If you dont totally follow one idea-then you are "this". The only black and white I see are cool baldies with some chrome.Problem is:the only two communist countries above the toilet seat are Cuba and North Korea-both abysmal police states. And thier people starve and live in what could be a form of abject slavery. In most cases-there is no parralel between what our govt. does,and thier "philosophy" at all. O0
