[MD] US democracy at work?

[MarshaV]

What are you talking about?   I'm looking for the White Rabbit.   

 

On Mar 2, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:

> So stand yourself and stop whingeing about "they" maybe ?
> 
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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:
>> 
>>> 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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