Governor Patterson "Deaf" to The People

The people of New York know that times are tough.
Government workers know things are tough.
They are being furloughed and laid off to help deal with massive deficits.
Governor Patterson is not hearing any of this!
He has just raised the salaries of his own staff by as much as 29%!
As Bugs Bunny would say: "What a Maroon!"

BTW, It is hard to feel sorry for the union employees after reading this: ""It's a slap in the face to state employees who have had their raise delayed and are threatened with the loss of another 20 percent pay per week through the furloughs," said Public Employees Federation spokeswoman Darcy Wells.


So, they still have jobs and are still going to get the raise.
Wanna trade buddy?
Lots of people out there have no job at all.

Still Think Unions Are Good?

This story and video show exactly the type of thinking that is pervasive in public employee unions.
If you can watch this and still think unions are great, there is no way to save you an maybe no way to save the country.
I cannot abide by the continued refusal of unions and too many of their membership to share our pain in an economic crisis when we are paying their salaries and benefits.
They are choking the goose because the golden eggs aren't getting larger even though the goose has less to eat.

Congratulations to New Jersey!

New Jersey voters rejected union backed budgets all over the state.
At a little over 50% the rejection is not as good as it can be, but an improvement over past acceptance of budget and tax increases.
This was, in part, due to the Governor's call to reject any budget that does not include teachers agreements to freeze their pay.

Gotta Love Unions

Flint Michigan had to lay off firefighters due to budget cuts. Politicians seem to pick on first responders, the elderly, and children when they need to cut the fat. Is it that they feel they have more leverage by picking on these groups, or is it that they would never cut their own numbers or get rid of the faceless bureaucrats that can really gum up the gears if they are upset about their job security?

Thanks to American Thinker, I found that Eric at Classical Values puts the stories covering the suspicious results of the firefighter layoffs here: http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2010/04/the_statement_h.html

Will they will catch the arsonists and make them pay for hurting firefighters?