Thank you for this, Ramona.

MrSmith1 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:15:52 +0000

In reply to What is a contract if it's not a contract, Part 2

Thank you for this, Ramona. It goes right along with something I've been railing about; that the blame is always placed on the unions for their outrageous demands, when the people we should be blaming are the idiots in government that agreed to those demands. Unions, it seems to me, are like defense attorneys, they advocate for their clients. If they didn't, what's the point of their existence? It's the elected officials who agreed to the union demands and then didn't make provisions to fully fund the contract that should be lambasted. I don't get how cities and states can say the contracts they signed with workers are suddenly not valid, simply because the governors and / or mayors were remiss in raising enough revenue to meet the city or state's obligations. That was their responsibility; to see that the pensions were funded. Instead, they cut taxes too much and found themselves without the funds to pay for the pensions. Then, instead of doing the right thing, which would be finding a way to meet their financial obligation, they chose the path of, "well, these aren't really valid, because they cost us too much, so we'll weasel out of them" It stinks.

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Thank you for this, Ramona.