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April 26, 2008
Feinting Round One
Justin Katz
Surely, I've become too apt to be suspicious, but something in this labor rep's reaction to the supplemental budget — in conjunction with the legislators' "yelling and screaming" during debate of it — reminds me that this was merely the preface:
"It's devastating," said Dennis Grilli, head of the largest state employees union, Council 94. "All in all, I don't think we fared very well."Labor's disappointment was met with praise from Governor Carcieri's office, which applauded the Democrat-dominated Assembly's decision to avoid raising taxes to help close the massive budget hole.
I can already hear the claim that labor's already taken "devastating" cuts, so now it's the taxpayers' (or the business community's) turn.
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When labor starts whining that it's the taxpayer's turn to pitch in, we need to clearly remind them that on the see-saw of life our arses are still firmly planted on the ground. We've still got too much of the board.
They can come see me for 'sharing' conversations after they convert the defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan. And not until. And even then I'll be unlikely to want to open the wallet.
Posted by: Greg at April 26, 2008 12:49 PMRI should abolish public sector unions.
Posted by: Citizen Critic at April 26, 2008 5:18 PMGuess The Don can pound his chest and do his victory lap now.
Posted by: rhody at April 26, 2008 7:00 PMTypical liberal. Blame the Republican when the Democrat-controlled General Assembly does something.
Posted by: Greg at April 26, 2008 7:30 PMIt seems to me that the price that public sector workers has to pay for the current budget hole makes them some kind of reverse special interest group and an easy target. The only relief they get (remember they're also taxpayers) is when the focus is on immigrants.
Posted by: Phil at April 27, 2008 9:37 AM--It seems to me that the price that public sector workers has to pay for the current budget hole makes them some kind of reverse special interest group and an easy target. The only relief they get (remember they're also taxpayers) is when the focus is on immigrants.
According to Ocean State Republican it looks like the state workers through their union bosses sowed the seeds of their own fiscal doom!
There's a certain poetic justice to it all.
Welfare industry vs. unions: the poverty pimps have the numbers, and so in the long run will win.
ttp://oceanstaterepublican.com/2008/03/21/symbiotic-parasitism-the-law-of-unintended-demographics/
Posted by: Ragin' Rhode Islander at April 27, 2008 3:28 PM