[MD] US democracy at work?

[MarshaV]

Really, Ian,

I would be more successful, standing on a soapbox, under the one traffic-light in 
this little town, lecturing one-and-all on the ever-changing, interdependence of 
static patterns of value.  I am, though, one of the town's deputy Registrar of Voters.  


Marsha 

 
 
On Mar 2, 2011, at 7:05 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:

> :-)
> 
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:11 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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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