[MD] US democracy at work?

[Ian Glendinning]

So stand yourself and stop whingeing about "they" maybe ?

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> In most elections the choice is between ass and arse; they both having
> concocted the election rules.
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> On Mar 2, 2011, at 4:18 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:
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>> John,
>> Sounds like your first mistake is a taxpayer electing people who don't care ?
>> Try better next time.
>> Ian
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>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:03 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ian,
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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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