Comments on: When heroes become bureaucrats

By: Siegfried

Siegfried — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:49:41 +0000

Not sure in which Bizarro World these critters can be classified as Heroes. Their main function is to make sure they get home safely at night, next is to write traffic citations for making right hand turns against a red light. Firefighters and Cops rate # 11 and #12 as far as dangerous jobs. The USSA military doesn’t even crack the top 20. Time for BooBus to wake up, NEH ???

By: Surfcitybob

Surfcitybob — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:56:09 +0000

I guess we have the best government unions can buy…

By: CityTaxpayer

CityTaxpayer — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:50:14 +0000

Liberty427 – you ask a good question, and here’s the answer. There are conservative voices, but they are not well funded. Every dime a conservative gets is voluntarily paid by a donor, whose name is then public record, and who does not get a write-off for the expenditure. By contrast, the government workers, with their big government waste and entitlements agenda (where poor people and immigrants are just meal tickets – the more chaos, crime, social disorder and poverty we have, after all, the more government jobs we have to create to babysit them all), have virtually unlimited funds.

Where are those funds coming from, Liberty427? They’re coming from you and me, in the form of taxes that pay salaries to government workers, wherein the government worker unions make the government payroll offices withhold union dues from those salaries, wherein those dues are used to fund political activity. In California, get ready, political spending by state and local government worker unions averages about $250 MILLION per year. And that’s YOUR MONEY, being used against you.

Let’s make sure we both understand this clearly: Government worker unions have taken over the government, so they can pass laws that expand government programs – which often make social problems WORSE, but that’s good for the government workers – and they can pass laws to increase their pay and benefits, “negotiating” these increases with politicians who they elect. They have virtually unlimited funds, as well as access to virtually unlimited “volunteers,” since government workers only work about 3.5 days per week, on average, while your average self-employed entrepreneur works about 6.0 days per week, on average. You are a slave to government worker unions, Liberty427. They use YOUR MONEY to brainwash the public, and any poor underfunded patriot who tries to tell the truth is outgunned and overwhelmed.

Oh, by the way, if you want to see an example of unionized public safety officers – completely protected by their unions and therefore unaccountable – really abandon their charter to protect the public, check out this story:
http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/2011/warning-graphic-photo-of-fpd-beating-victim/

By: Rex ther Wonder Dog!

Rex ther Wonder Dog! — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:48:24 +0000

Conservatives are doing nothing. Why ?

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Hey, newsflash, EVERYONE who lives at middle class or below is out to stop these fraud pensions. Not just conservatives.

By: Liberty427

Liberty427 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:05:40 +0000

I live in Costa Mesa. The public employee’s union has a well financed and well orchestrated campaign to smear the Mayor and his staff for their planned across-the-board layoff of city workers. Everywhere there are stupid signs that state: “Cancel the Layoffs. I’m a waste watcher”.

Where is the response from the other side representing the tax payers? It’s nowhere. The union is winning the public relations war. Conservatives are doing nothing. Why ?

By: Rex ther Wonder Dog!

Rex ther Wonder Dog! — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:11:06 +0000

These clowns are scam artists, that is what they have become, nothing more.

GED educated clowns with an entitlement mentality and hero syndrome.