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So it seems the acceptable level of budget rationality is in question? Apparently amounting to some calculations invoking imminent layoffs on the one hand, or… what?
Just how big can a government budget deficit get before something really bad happens?
Hmmmmm…
As long as it’s driven by a union driver, and a union streets and san guy scrapes his mushy tuchas off the asphalt..
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Ms. Rachael Maddow, she of the swan’s neck, girlish giggle and steel-trap mind, speculated and offered evidence last night that Walker was being groomed for higher office, which is why he is doing all these “Reganesque” kinds of things. So its not even about Wisconsin, so much as it is about a nationwide political stunt to put their golden boy into the spotlight. She made a pretty good case, and I think she’s on to something, there.
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OH yeah, the pubbies have NOTHING in the way of a candidate for 2012, this bomb-thrower is the guy they’ll raise up as the next king of the jelly beans. Maddow is spot on.
Quick question Nadir, if you suddenly find yourself in the middle of a widening defecit in your home budget, what do you do? Buy a smaller house (rent a smaller apartment) or buy cheaper coffee filters?
I think in Walker’s mind, at least, he is making himself into some kind of romantic folk hero who the voters will clamor for in 2012. Utter delusion, of course, but such delusional grandiosity is normal in politicians.
Is it a unionized filter plant that makes the filters? 
California would have a pretty huge surplus if it weren’t being bled dry supporting welfare red states.
Not gonna argue with that.
You’ve been arguing? Since when?
Walker’s positions are and always have been about what will benefit him and people like him. If it can get more power for him personally, or benefit his demographic in his private life, he’s in favor of it. If he sees no direct, immediate benefit to his demographic, he’s against it.
Short-sighted, selfish, power-hungry, ignorant shitstain.
I didn’t think the answer was so obvious to the first one. Back in the day when I sent letters, I’d go Post Office without a doubt. And those bills that I do pay by mail I drop in the blue box. But for packages and if I have a choice when being shipped to it is UPS. Maybe I have it all wrong.
That is all I can address, I don’t qualify for Medicare, and I haven’t had cable in over 10 years.
I do feel badly for those that will end up in a financial pickle from this. However I feel worse for retiree’s that have steadily had their pensions and benefits eroded with little more than lip service from the local. Too many times it seems the retiree’s have been sacrificed to preserve the wage scale. And that just seems like crap.
A reason to bust the union? Nah, but certainly makes a lot of people less sympathetic.
Do you really want Rebecca Kleefisch to be governor? Recall election, next January. We need a whole new governor and cabinet.
One word:
Enron.
Good thing not a single liberal is like that :rolleyes:
A real quick Google yields this about UPS. Looks like the company is worth ~$78 billion, has ~$1.2 billion in cash financing, ~$3.5 billion cash on hand and ~$33 billion total assets. Debt to equity ratio of 2.86, with revenues over $12 billion. Looks like they could pay their bills if they were in a hurry.
Compare to Wisconsin. Defend the proposition that union busting is the best strategy for balancing the books.
Wisconsin created a deficit by cutting corporate taxes. it caused the “fake” deficit in order to bust unions. If you believe that unions are the reason for debts, you don’t know about banks and semi-legal tax evasion by companies and the wealthy. The Repubs are starving the beast for an excuse to bust unions. They said they were going to do it and they did.
No silly billy, the ontime ratios. I’d like to know if the numbers he quoted were correct.
And as I said, of course the reason the USPS is running a deficit is that E-mail exists and they are required to deliver to everyone.
I don’t think union busing is the best strategy for balancing the books. I think Walker is a human hemorrhoid.
But government necessarily must sacrifice profit for full coverage. They aren’t a corporation. They are of and for the people, via government mandate. Theoretically anyway.
We’ve got some common ground. Only that isn’t the half of it about Walker. Not the tenth of it!
Well, of course union busting balances the budget, in exactly the same way that abortion restrictions are a jobs, jobs, jobs program.
UPS went after the big pay , big cost delivery items. They left mail and flyers to the Post Office because there is no money in them. That is why the post office loses money.
But I still get better results from shipping packages through the Postal System.
A friend shipped a vase by UPs and it got chipped. They refuse to honor the insurance that he bought. He has been fighting them for 4 months and they give him non manned phone numbers or give him a new person to talk to. But they will not honor the guarantee. He has been given a royal run around. He says he will never UPS anything again,.