pinko

Yes the lenders and borrowers deserved each other. I am sure there are some good deals to be had in the land of the free.

Get back in your hole.

But then what do you really know?

Agreed

No but they were duped by the low rate up front. Didn't you follow the fraudulent practices of the bankers?

I've never been to Chicago. I prefer the White Sox to the Cubs myself. Other than at World Series time I don't really follow baseball that much.

Well there you go. Maybe we could pick the teams and a mutually agreeable field of play.

I wonder if blueblood plays baseball. Maybe a baseball game is in order. We could exchange ideas about unions and free enterprise.

I kinda like the label of barbarian. Thanks.

Agreed. I realize my contempt of such people shows.

Anytime

Good for you. I have been on picket lines and have refrained from calling actual scabs scum. That such individuals would undermine their brothers and sisters on the picket line leads me to my opinion of these low lifes.

None of your business.

I notice you avoided my question. Have you ever been on a picket line?

How so? Have you ever been on a picket line?

My opinion is that scabs are the scum of the earth.

Yes and if you have followed any strike of recent you will know that acts of violence result in arrests whether on the picket line or otherwise.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110223/bs_ac/7921786_what_is_a_labor_union

Scabs deserve exactly what they get if stupid enough to cross a picket line. Of course most people know employers usually bus scabs across picket lines.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/america-is-not-broke_b_832006.html?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily+Brief&utm_campaign=daily_brief

The state doesn't have the right to renege on it's commitment nor should it attempt to create an unfunded liability by such means.

Pliny: "It didn't work too good as a lot of manufacturers just went offshore." Would you please elaborate a bit further on this comment. Which manufacturing, in particular, are you referring to?

I am a Canadian citizen born and raised in Winnipeg. So no I am not an American immigrant.

At 6:45 p.m. on the Thursday before the budget announcement, the second bomb dropped. Someone in the Walker administration leaked a skeleton summary of the "repair" bill; Kraig got a copy from The Wheeler Report, a no-frills political website run by veteran Wisconsin reporter Dick Wheeler. He was stunned. Walker's bill didn't just attack unions: It was a move to wipe them off the map. According to the leaked summary, the bill would eliminate collective bargaining for most public-sector unions, a move affecting 170,000 employees statewide. It would require public employees, who'd already taken a 3 percent pay cut in the previous two years, to contribute 5.8 percent of wages to fund their pensions and 12.6 percent of wages to pay for health care premiums. (Currently, they pay 0.2 percent of wages into their pensions and 5.6 percent of wages for health premiums. However, state employees fund 100 percent of their pensions through deferred compensation. Walker is demanding more money on top of that to fill a deficit in the pension fund.) Another provision would force unions to vote each year to maintain their union statusan unprecedented move by the governor. http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/wisconsin-protest-scott-walker-labor Please note that the state employees fund 100% of their pensions through deferred compensation. It is also worth noting that these employees have already accepted pay and benefits costs.

The following rankings come from various lists, but they all tell the same story. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), our 15-year-olds rank 17th in the world in science and 25th in math. We rank 12th among developed countries in college graduation (down from No. 1 for decades). We come in 79th in elementary-school enrollment. Our infrastructure is ranked 23rd in the world, well behind that of every other major advanced economy. American health numbers are stunning for a rich country: based on studies by the OECD and the World Health Organization, we're 27th in life expectancy, 18th in diabetes and first in obesity. Only a few decades ago, the U.S. stood tall in such rankings. No more. There are some areas in which we are still clearly No. 1, but they're not ones we usually brag about. We have the most guns. We have the most crime among rich countries. And, of course, we have by far the largest amount of debt in the world. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2056610,00.html#ixzz1FusyYjHo Do you feel the American model of governance is broken?