pinko

I am 66 years old and I would suspect you are of a similar age. If that is the case your knowledge of your former residence is suspect. You should be thankful you were allowed to come here and partake of the opportunities provided to you. While you may have been out of scope you still benefited from the gains made as a result of collective bargaining. Your disdain for the union at your workplace and your coworker has been duly noted.

I am wondering if you could provide the necessary proof to backup your assertion relative to the pension plan. By the way what expertise do you bring to the discussion when it comes to pension plans?

Are you suggesting the meltdown in 2008 hasn't precipitated these events? Are you familiar with the history in California as it relates to the neoliberal model? Reagen and his pal Pete Wilson were instrumental in this.

"Keep in mind that relying on leg-breaking, head-bashing, lying, stealing and cheating union thug IS a personal failure." How about some examples as well as the specifics of these labour disputes.

I am a third generation Canadian and some of my relatives came to Canada(USA) at the turn of the 20th century from Eastern Europe. I have lived in Canada all my life and just like you spent over 30 years in the work world. The picture you portray of unions is largely fictional and for the most part a figment of your imagination. I suspect the reason you didn't move to a non-union shop is that the comfort provided in a unionized workplace was more to your liking. You fool no one with your story telling.

It would seem to me that those governing the USA aren't particularly good at math. I should add that based on performance since Ronald Raygun they aren't very good at distributing income in the appropriate manner.

Here is one source which seems to address the issue. http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html

When did you come to Canada? For your information the trade union movement in Canada precedes your entrance to our country. The rand formula has been in place for decades. I would have expected a self reliant computer programmer would be better informed about the nature and purpose of union dues. By the way if you are so disenchanted with life here in Canada then move.

How saintly. How are you any different than any of us who have been in the work world? You are nothing special.

Thanks for the information. I am not surprised as she demonstrates some fairly disturbing traits. I certainly wouldn't want her around any of my grandchildren.

when it comes to real as opposed to imagined social mobility, surveys find less in the United States than in much of (what we consider) the class-bound Old World. France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Spain—not to mention some newer nations like Canada and Australia—are all places where your chances of rising from the bottom are better than they are in the land of Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick. http://www.slate.com/id/2266025/entry/2266026

It's generally understood that we live in a time of growing income inequality, but "the ordinary person is not really aware of how big it is," Krugman told me. During the late 1980s and the late 1990s, the United States experienced two unprecedentedly long periods of sustained economic growth—the "seven fat years" and the " long boom." Yet from 1980 to 2005, more than 80 percent of total increase in Americans' income went to the top 1 percent. Economic growth was more sluggish in the aughts, but the decade saw productivity increase by about 20 percent. Yet virtually none of the increase translated into wage growth at middle and lower incomes, an outcome that left many economists scratching their heads. Here is a snapshot of income distribution during the past 100 years: http://www.slate.com/id/2266025/entry/2266026

I have no idea where you live nor do I really care. You seem to have a need to display your self worth by belittling others.

The fact of the matter is the uber rich have been given a free ride over the decades and this in turn has caused a considerable shortfall in government revenues. The deep pockets of the Koch brothers are evident in this dispute in Wisconsin and you can be sure their wealth will be used in a manner in keeping with their place in the world of the rich. The teabaggers are financed by folks like Dick Armey(http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090415_obamas_cup_of_tea/). The Americans need to get out of the wars they have financed on the backs of the middle class and the poor and regulate and redistribute income in a much more equitable manner.

If the debt is to be reduced tax increases will be necessary as a matter of necessity. If you have been following the events from the Ronald Raygun era onward you will realize that the trickle down theory pushed by morons like Reagen and that old whore Thatcher haven't worked at least for ordinary folks.

I am sure the trailer park you live in is well stocked with the beer and dope you and the other losers residing there consume while others do an honest days work.

He balances off morons like you. Which hillbilly state are you from?

Is there man Joe Six Pack the phoney repug at the rally?

What do these rubes supporting the governors actions do for a living? Have any of them done an honest days work?

You certainly don't qualify as a smart American. Where I live in Manitoba there are no private hospitals. The distinctions made by others aren't material to our discussion.

Correct. bush/cheney has identified the only private hospital in Canada and that is in British Columbia.

I don't live in B.C., chump.

Hogwash

BC condones the breach of contracts by the state and has the temerity to suggest that is what the people have endorsed. Surely he must know his assertion is a dishonest portrayal of the facts.

There are no private hospitals here, chump.