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I agree with all the above.

Flavius — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:33:03 +0000

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I agree with all the above. Obviously. Now I'm going skiing. See ya.

Back on 4 Feb, I put up a

Beetlejuice — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:03:00 +0000

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Back on 4 Feb, I put up a post titled...Where's the News. In it, I wrote the following:

The Shock Doctrine, redirect the attention of the public to some other trivial issue away from what you're doing so when their attention is back and focused, the changes have already been approved and implemented and there's nothing they can do. I wonder what kind of mischief the GOper's were able to gum up because everyone's attention was distracted?

With the abortion issue on the front burner in Congress, this made-for-FoxNews issue in Wisconsin that may spread to other hostile GOPer governed states and The Boner feeling his oats about shutting down the government I think I hit the nail on the head.

Egypt was the distraction they needed.

Repugs are supposed to be

MrSmith1 — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:32:02 +0000

In reply to past negotiations Funny how

Repugs are supposed to be champions of the 'Rule of Law' aren't they? Except when they can wheedle their way out of it.

past negotiations Funny how

jollyroger — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:33:17 +0000

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past negotiations

Funny how the Repugnants snivel about the sanctity of contracts when some poor working stiff wants to walk away from an upside down mortgage deal...

Why, for that matter, aren't

jollyroger — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:30:49 +0000

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Why, for that matter, aren't the governors like Corzine and Whitman who simply did not put the money in the pension funds that the law prescribed going straight to jail, do not pass go....?

Excellent point! NY has had

LisB — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:17:42 +0000

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Excellent point! NY has had budget problems for quite a while now. So far, though, our teachers, students, nurses, doctors and citizens have not felt the need to march on Albany.

Thank God. I thought I was

MrSmith1 — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:17:49 +0000

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Thank God. I thought I was the only one asking this question. Why isn't more attention being put on legally negotiated obligations that were mandated by law?

Well, we're told, "it's an emergency, we're broke." Well, then why did you a) negotiate a pension you couldn't afford, and/or b) cut taxes so much your state can't meet its fiscal responsibilities?

Heck, most of these guys loved the pensions enough to dip in and borrow from them to balance their budgets when needed, but now they feel they can cry poverty and simply walk away because it's the easiest thing to do. I don't get it. Why isn't there more outrage at this?