Earl Allen Boek Isn't it time that all city, county, state and
federal employee unions wake up and smell the collective coffee?
As a world we have a $600 Trillion Dollar Debt while living in a $60
Trillion dollar annual GP world. Get a clue._citizen activists
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Christine Mitchell Earl, I can't take that poll. It is too biased. Come on now......Saturday at 2:07pm · · 1 personYou like this. ·- Earl Allen Boekof course it was Christine..done tongue in cheek...
I fixed the poll like their trying to fix the election.
Why your supporting them, instead of attempting to
help balance the budget...I'll never know or understand.
...- Earl Allen Boekno need for polls...just educate yourselfs...there is big BIG trouble coming...10 years of it...maybe. I'm not making this stuff up
Isn't it time that all city, county, state and
federal employee unions wake up and smell the collective coff...ee?
As a world we have a $600 Trillion Dollar Debt while living in a $60
Trillion dollar annual GP world. Get a clue._citizen activistsSee MoreSaturday at 10:43pm · · - Christine Mitchell The budget isn't going to be balanced if the public employees lose their benefits. Are you going to stop your house from burning if it is on fire? These people worked hard to get these jobs and get good benefits. They pay taxes too.22 hours ago · ·
- Earl Allen BoekThere not having their benefits taken away are they
really? there only being asked to kick in a little more
on their own retirements..What's wrong with them
kicking in to address the budget, and asking all others
to do the same...??
...
I love how you guys always push the fireman's side...
they have played second fettle to the police union
for decades...decades they have been on the short
stick.See More19 hours ago · · 
Paul CurrierEarl - your correct. Christine, that same old tired line is going to get hung out to dry in 40 short days. Everyone can pitch in. Here in San Francisco we have a Proposition B, that mandates the Public Employees pitch in to their retire...ment funds so we don't bankrupt the funds paying our public servants $300,000 to $500,000 per year plus benefits. Maybe the Democrats are not that bold in Redding yet? Everyone is going to have to tighten our belts. The Public Unions need to face the facts that getting 2 to 3 times what private industry in America gets to take home is not what the voters are going to buy. We are all in this together. We are looking at 10 to 20 years before we see recovery. The Public Service Workers need to be aware that jobs and benefits that match the rest of us are how you keep a job and keep what benefits you get. Those of us without jobs and benefits already tightened our belts. What we need is Single Payer so we all have health. What we need is Local Banks, so we dont have to Bank with New York. What we all need is Land to farm, Affordable Housing, and jobs - and our communities will have to deliver these with Coops and other solutions - because Sacramento and Washington DC are bankrupt. How do the Public Service Unions expect blood from a turnip? Closing down our Military Bases all over the world better get popular fast - because its either we close the military down or go without food, shelter, health care and basic educations. We are now in a Depression. Who's kidding who?See More- Earl Allen Boekthank you Paul, thought I was the only one...geez.
while every fed, state, local agency has armed and
lock and loaded with grants from the feds to fight
terrorist in the US, as in us, I'm thinking, everyone
even activist, who have to fight toot...h and nail for anything
having to do with humanity services, lay down over and
over for law enforcement...and not one time has it made
any of them a bit safer, maybe even more unsafe...
recently 12-14 local Redding pd trapped a 20 year bank
robber with a bee bee gun, while he lifted his gun, I'm
thinking, to fight off the dog attacking him, they all unloaded
their 9mm on him killing him, the kid should have known better,
still, the officers wild gun fire hit a couple of office complexes
near by, blew out a glass door in one, and I think I heard
a round hit the DMV. Do I feel any safer, living here many
of my years? Hardly. Will I have trouble sleeping at night
because these gravy-trained men and women, have to
kick a small percentage to their own dang bloated retirements?
HARDLY
notice the crickets sounds on the last commentsSee More17 hours ago · · - Paul CurrierThe MUNI Drivers put out a research piece here in San Francisco. We pay over 50 Cops and Firemen over $250,000 per year - before pensions. One cop gets over $500,000 per year in pay, and Jerry Brown is not suing San Francisco like he is s...uing the City of Bell, in Los Angeles County.
Our Public Defender Jeff Adachi put together a Proposition, and we collected 75,000 Signatures to get it on the Ballot. All the Political Establishment is against our now on the Ballot Proposition B. The Union Leadership is freaking out. No one is taking a sanity check. If we had Single Payer - that Pelosi and all say is on the way - no one will have health care bills go up. Under Obamacare - our health care cost for all who make under $250,000 per year is going down right? So why cant our Public Unions chip in to their retirement so there is money there to pay them when they retire? Retirement is not pay for not working - it is a benefit that builds up. 90% of us get nothing. What are the Unions Bitching about - demanding more from those of us who cant get work? Give me a break!
Here is who is against San Francisco Prop B: Nancy Pelosi; Gavin Newsom; Tom Ammiano; Mark Leno; David Chiu; Leland Yee; Kamala Harris; Sophie Maxwell; Sheriff Hennessey; David Campos; the San Francisco Democratic Party; SF Police Officers; SF Firefighters; California Nurses Association; United Educators of San Francisco (who ever the heck this group is its not the CTA or CFT), the SF Labor Council (political wing of John Burton), SF Tenants Union, Affordable Housing Alliance (5 people and a name), The Milk Club - (but this came out before our endorsement vote - which is odd), Alice B. Toklas (the political wing of Willy PG&E Brown), and the Chinese Progressive Association (who I would love to meet).
On the other side are 75,000 of us who are registered voters who signed the petitions to put Proposition B on the Ballot to add fiscal responsibility to local Government. The costs for our Cops and Firemen are off the hook. I have no problem paying them more than any other Department in the USA. No problem at all. And I also agree that they can contribute to their retirement out of their top lever pay in the USA. What is wrong with Public Employees paying their fair share along with the rest of us? Oh yes - VOTE YES ON B in San Francisco!See More15 hours ago · · - Earl Allen Boek thanks for that info Paul, may I post it on ReddingRantandRaves.blogspot.com ?15 hours ago · ·
- Paul Currier Earl - you can post anything I write forever - if you promise to spell my name correctly in the credit. (smile)13 hours ago · ·
- Earl Allen Boek Now you know i cannot promise that...smile13 hours ago · ·
- Paul Currier Go for it Earl and lets just keep kicking ass and taking names!13 hours ago · · 1 personLoading... ·
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- Earl Allen BoekI'm on no side here Christine...What's right is right.
5-10% across the board is my side...no scared "safety"
police Union cows...no fire, to human services...everything
everyone must do their part. Only fair. By the way, I
already gave at the ...office. Right around a cool million
in 2007. That was all I had. NO unions here. pre-existing
conditions, no key man insurance either.
So what your saying since they all join public service for
the benefits. they deserve and should expect them forever?
no problem, they have em, now just bite the bullet like
we have already out here in the REAL world and pay your
own fair share of them. THAT'S all.
too bad I could not expect that in my business...you should
see the public services I was able to provide to my area
when I had what I had.See More11 hours ago · · - Paul CurrierI am 100% Pro Union. Here in San Francisco, the Mayor wants to "contract out" what is now Union Work. To me, that is Union Busting. I do not think that Local, County and State Government should Contract out Union Jobs. All Contractor wh...o to get City, County, and State Contracts in California should be required to have labor contracts with the bonified Unions. And, the all the public employees need to contribute to and fund the public retirement from wages earned. There is not one thing wrong with us all being responsible. On Health Costs - we all need to build our coalitions around Single Payer to save Small Business, as well as all facets of the Public Sector.See More7 hours ago · ·
- Christine MitchellI like what you say Paul. Yes, we need single payer! Yes, the unions need to pay part of retirement. The problem here is the city council in Redding has taken and taken and they treat the public safety like dogs. When there is someone w...ho they can negotiate with on the City Council progress might be made. I was talking to a firefighter's wife yesterday. Her husband makes about $22.00 per hour when you average it out. He works 56 hours before being able to collect overtime. That is not a lot of money for a family. By-the-way they have been paying a more than they were before the melt-down for health care.See Moreabout an hour ago · ·
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