[MD] US democracy at work?

[MarshaV]

In most elections the choice is between ass and arse; they both having 
concocted the election rules.      



On Mar 2, 2011, at 4:18 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:

> John,
> Sounds like your first mistake is a taxpayer electing people who don't care ?
> Try better next time.
> Ian
> 
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:03 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ian,
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> A contract is a contract, whether your employer is public or private.
>>> If public it is important that the "civil service" is separate from
>>> partisan government, so that arrangements don't flip-flop with the
>>> ballot box.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> What if the party contracting services, (govt.) sits down at the bargaining
>> table with the party that got them elected (deep-pockets unions)?  Where are
>> the checks and balances in such an equation?  No wonder pensions and
>> benefits for public service employees have done nothing but go higher and
>> higher.  Here in California, we saw this pattern displayed in full with the
>> collusion of the prison guards and the teachers getting Gray Davis elected,
>> just in time to renegotiate the sweetest deals imaginable.  However, once
>> locked in, subsequent Republican administration (the governator) can do
>> nothing to make those contracts void.  And really, what government official
>> really cares?  It's the taxpayer who is screwed.
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