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DU you know 4.0 DU you even care?
« on: May 29, 2012, 08:14:14 AM »
This is why they're losing in Wisconsin:

[youtube=425,350]Of97J_jmXwQ[/youtube]
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Re: DU you know 4.0 DU you even care?
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2012, 11:25:00 AM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on May 29, 2012, 08:14:14 AM
This is why they're losing in Wisconsin:

[youtube=425,350]Of97J_jmXwQ[/youtube]


Yep, that sums it up.
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« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2012, 12:15:34 PM »
I am hopeful of the day when public sector employee unions are abolished by law. Lots of waste in government and Democrat money laundering would dry up pretty damn quick. I'm also in favor of capping the number of non military people working for the public sector to coincide with a certain percentage of the economy. We don't need better than half the people working for the various governments in this country. They can move back to the private sector and dig ditches or flip burgers if they have no skills beyond being a taxpayer money drain.
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« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2012, 12:33:27 PM »
Unionization is another great theory, like socialism, that never works well in practice.
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« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2012, 12:36:01 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on May 29, 2012, 12:33:27 PM
Unionization is another great theory, like socialism, that never works well in practice.

And as more people learn what it really is; the more there is that want nothing to do with it.
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« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2012, 12:36:52 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on May 29, 2012, 12:33:27 PM
Unionization is another great theory, like socialism, that never works well in practice.

That meddling human nature always steps up and says hi.
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« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2012, 12:37:35 PM »
I'd love to find out how much my State actually puts out for retirement and benefits for state workers, what percentage of my property and personal taxes go towards that?
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Re: DU you know 4.0 DU you even care?
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2012, 01:02:42 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on May 29, 2012, 12:37:35 PM
I'd love to find out how much my State actually puts out for retirement and benefits for state workers, what percentage of my property and personal taxes go towards that?

No you don't, Bally . . . No you don't.  This: :hammer: :argh: :censored: would be your reaction.  If you could get together with lots of voters to "rectify the situation," then maybe you could do something.
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« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2012, 03:39:09 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on May 29, 2012, 12:37:35 PM
I'd love to find out how much my State actually puts out for retirement and benefits for state workers, what percentage of my property and personal taxes go towards that?

I found this just for the town I live in, population < 80K.

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In 2001, about 30 percent of the city's property tax levy went into paying down the pensions of its retired police and firefighters. In 2011, 70 percent of it will go toward pensions, even as recent years have seen cuts to other services that draw their funds from the same source, including the Decatur Public Library.

This year the library eliminated the Bookmobiles in the face of cuts exacted upon it by the city council.

Despite such austerity, costs continue to rise due to increasing unfunded liability, caused by higher-than-expected costs that must be paid off at a mandated minimum rate. According to city data, Decatur faced about $10 million in unfunded liabilities to its police and fire pension systems. In fiscal year 2011, the city's unfunded liabilities for police and fire pensions are expected to total about $80 million.
http://herald-review.com/news/local/article_7950f4d4-d789-50b4-987b-ef8b58f7080d.html
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« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2012, 03:42:35 PM »
The scam is the pension money is "managed" by friends closely connected to the administration. Then it's a big surprise that the managed money was used directly and indirectly to support political office holders, and don't get the type of returns the general market is getting, so it must be augmented by taxpayers.
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« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2012, 04:16:35 PM »
OMG thundley!

We have people who retire and they move out of State because it's so expensive to live here, so basically they move out of State and they put money into another States economy while we pay for it.
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« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2012, 05:23:13 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on May 29, 2012, 04:16:35 PM
OMG thundley!

We have people who retire and they move out of State because it's so expensive to live here, so basically they move out of State and they put money into another States economy while we pay for it.

City workers used to have to live within the city limits, but the unions pushed for an end to that.  I imagine quite a few of them leave Illinois altogether when they retire.
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« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2012, 05:31:02 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 29, 2012, 05:23:13 PM
City workers used to have to live within the city limits, but the unions pushed for an end to that.  I imagine quite a few of them leave Illinois altogether when they retire.

I don't blame them, if I lived in Illinois, I'd leave too.

To date, my only affiliation with Illinois was passing thru on the Tri-State Tollway on my way to Pound, WI.

I intend to keep it that way.
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Re: DU you know 4.0 DU you even care?
« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2012, 07:38:37 PM »
Quote from: diesel driver on May 29, 2012, 05:31:02 PM
I don't blame them, if I lived in Illinois, I'd leave too.

To date, my only affiliation with Illinois was passing thru on the Tri-State Tollway on my way to Pound, WI.

I intend to keep it that way.
There's nothing wrong with Illinois except for that malignant cesspool in its upper righthand corner.

You have a little pocket of snotty elitists in Champaign/Urbana, but most states have a similar affliction.
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« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2012, 07:45:38 PM »
OMG...someone needs to rescue Chanute!
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« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2012, 07:52:46 PM »
Quote from: EagleKeeper on May 29, 2012, 07:45:38 PM
OMG...someone needs to rescue Chanute!

That's been closed for years.
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« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2012, 08:12:46 PM »
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The president referred to “Polish death camps” while awarding a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Polish professor Jan Karski, a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance. 

 

Click the link DUmmies to see why he pissed the Polish off.
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« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2012, 08:16:50 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 29, 2012, 08:12:46 PM
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Click the link DUmmies to see why he pissed the Polish off.

If Bush had done this, it would have been plastered on every news channel, blog, and website in the world.  :banghead:

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« Reply #18 on: May 29, 2012, 08:26:59 PM »
Quote from: BEG on May 29, 2012, 08:12:46 PM
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Click the link DUmmies to see why he pissed the Polish off.

Biden must be rubbing off on him.  That was pure stupidity.
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« Reply #19 on: May 29, 2012, 09:03:47 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on May 29, 2012, 08:16:50 PM
If Bush had done this, it would have been plastered on every news channel, blog, and website in the world.  :banghead:


Bush might as well have done it, it's his fault !
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« Reply #20 on: May 30, 2012, 06:25:00 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on May 29, 2012, 07:38:37 PM
There's nothing wrong with Illinois except for that malignant cesspool in its upper righthand corner.

You have a little pocket of snotty elitists in Champaign/Urbana, but most states have a similar affliction.

True.  Virginia has the northern part, up around the DC area. 

I avoid that part as well.
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« Reply #21 on: May 31, 2012, 11:27:01 AM »
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Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees-the state’s second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers-fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme’s figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/31/awesome-wisconsin-public-employee-unions-sheds-half-its-membership-thanks-to-governor-walkers-law/

Given a choice, the union members are voting with their feet to quit paying dues.  :-)
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« Reply #22 on: May 31, 2012, 11:47:29 AM »
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« Reply #23 on: May 31, 2012, 11:53:48 AM »
In case anyone from DU is playing with the dial on the radio, maybe put on Rush, he's going to talk about the Union problem in Wisconsin.
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« Reply #24 on: May 31, 2012, 12:04:54 PM »
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Deval Patrick goes on MSNBC to stump for Obama, when Bain Capital comes up Patrick says this:

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Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday, Patrick called Bain “a perfectly fine company.”

“They have a role in the private economy, and I’ve got a lot of friends there,” Patrick added. “I think the Bain strategy has been distorted in some of the public discussions.”

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