[MD] US democracy at work?

[Ian Glendinning]

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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:11 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> What are you talking about?   I'm looking for the White Rabbit.
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> On Mar 2, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:
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>> So stand yourself and stop whingeing about "they" maybe ?
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>> 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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