So are you denying the fact that public union workers get put on paid leave for committing offenses that would get anyone else fired immediately?

I appreciate your attempt to credit me with the success of such a large company, but the reality is that Walmart is responsible for the working conditions of walmart. The people who willingly work for Walmart are responsible for the working conditions at walmart. Employment at walmart is not a mandate, if people do not like it, they are free to persue employment elsewhere. If Walmart cannot attract enough employees under those conditions, they will offer more money. I know you hate it when people are given freedom to choose where they work and when businesses are given the freedom to pay people according to their ability, but thats how us taxpayers pay for your lavish collective bargaining terms. That ability to eliminate waste is also why companies turn profits. The inability to do so is why governments are running budget deficits and begging for more money from the productive members of society.

By the way, nice sign off! A little more fine tuning and you will be one of the greats, like Ron Burgandy!

With friends like you, private sector workers don’t need enemies. You’ve succeeded in making Wal-Mart the role model for American labor, now you want to bring the rest of American workers down to that level.

Rave on, Tylerliar! I’m done with you. StevefromSacto out.

The gripe between Private Sector workers and Public workers is A valid issue. First off, Private Sector workers are the ones that have to work longer & harder for less money in order to pay for the bloated costs of public workers. If a Privater Employer has less money coming in, they stop hiring people and cut back costs to the bare minimum. The public unions just pull the strings of their puppets and have them take more money from the taxpayers so the union employees can continue on as usual. If a Private Sector Worker is found to be incompetant, breaking the law, or abusing their power, they will be fired right away and wont keep getting a paycheck, but the public unions waste taxpayer money to put some of the worst offenders on “Paid Administrative Leave” for years so they can either sit at home or in a teachers lounge and continue to collect their check. If a Private Sector Worker is unhappy with their compensation, they can prove to their employer why they are worth more, or they can go find another job. The public unions determine their members pay by making a deal with a politician whose campaign was funded by the union, then paying the union members based on them simply just being present, not on how good they are at their job. All of this waste is being paid for by taking more and more money away from the Private Sector Workers, despite the fact that we are barely able to get by since we have already been hit with a record tax increase, a 10+% Unemployment rate, and a regulatory environment that is driving all of our jobs out of the state. There is resentment because the Private Sector workers that break their backs every day for $30-40K (of which they see $20K) dont see why they should give up even more money to fund unneccessary government agencies, “Paid Leave” for child molesters, spiked pension benefits, or any of the other shameful things that CA blows our tax dollars on. Everybody is able to see how bloated & out of control Californias public sector is, the unions just keep getting their members to march in lock step by spewing propoganda and telling them that they are entitled to better healthcare, bigger pensions, more raises, and iron clad job security. In reality, the unions only care about recruiting more members so they have more members paying monthly dues and more sheep to march when their gravy train is threatened.

Steveo, your attempt to equate the “Class Warfare” to the resentment of unneccessary public union workers is just like the union hacks in Wisconsin trying to compare their slumber party to the Protests in the Middle East. Nice try, but you missed your target once again. Go back to your Union Provided Cheat Sheet and see if you can find some other irrelevant comparison to deflect attention away from the waste & abuse that is bankrupting our state.

One other thing:Tylerliar and his right-wing buddies are fond of blaming Democrats who bring up the huge disparity in this country between the poor and the wealthy for encouraging “envy” and fomenting “class warfare”. So how come it’s OK for you to do the same between public and private employees?

Maybe our 401Ks wouldnt pale in comparison to the Public Union pensions if we were able to keep & invest the thousands of dollars (Double that with Employer Match) that have been stolen from us every year to fund union corruption & payoffs.

Maybe our employers would be able to offer better Health Care options if they werent being bent over a barrell & screwed by some of the highest taxes & a never ending stream of redundant regulatory hacks.

Steveo Im sure the unions have supplied you with a list of responses to every objection to union corruption, but the truth is that unions kill every industry they are involved in. Manufacturing is pretty much gone. Car makers had to be bailed out & most cars arnt build on American soil because of unions. The construction industry has pretty much collapsed. The trucking industry is abbout to collapse at the hands of CARB, yet the unions did nothing to protect their members. There is no industry that is Union controlled that will thrive in the long term, the unions will end up killing off companies and costing their members jobs. Despite what they say, the unions could not care less about their individual members, they only care about expanding their membership base to collect more dues to pad their political war chest.

Since you get paid to defend unions/ union friendly individuals, you are alway going to spew some BS statistic meant to disguise the corruption & abuse carried out by Unions. In reality, Unions have outlived their usefullness since working/living conditions are not even close to what socialist leaders & Upton Sinclair displayed to the public over 100 years ago. In their current form, unions are basically the Socialist Model Society. They prevent the truely talented workers from making what they should make since they are lumped in the same group as incompetant slackers. Teachers that actually do their jobs and teach our children are fired when times get tough because Unions make it impossible to fire the horrible teachers & teachers who have issues “Touching” students, since they got there first and got “Tenure” after 4 years. Tenure was meant to protect College Professors from being fired for Political or Idealogical reasons, not to protect a 3rd grade Math teacher from being fired for hitting a student, or a 10th grade PE Teacher who was snapping pictures in the girls locker room.

Unionization of an industry is the first sign of eventual collapse. The only reason unionized public entities havent collapsed yet is because they just treated the taxpayers as a personal ATM machine, but that seems to have come to a breaking point. Taxpayers dont have anymore money that corrupt politicians can steal. It looks like public employees have finally pushed our government to the same point they pushed the Auto Makers & Manufacturing Companies to.

I also love your complaints about how bad our roads are (you might mention schools as well). Yet you want to reduce funding to fix our roads and improve our schools.