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==Jun 27, 2011 — Unions Call Detroit's Bluff On More Concessions==
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Freep -- Unions Call Detroit's Bluff On More Concessions
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Unions Call Detroit's Bluff On More Concessions (June 27, 2011)
• http://www.freep.com/article/20110627/NEWS01/106270385/Unions-call-Detroit-s-bluff-more-concessions
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Comment 1
What can you do about it?
Recall —
• http://www.firericksnyder.org/
• http://www.firericksnyder.org/community/all-events-list
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Recall-Governor-Rick-Snyder/113418962065885
Repeal —
• http://repealpa4.org/
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/Repeal-PA4-Emergency-Managers-Washtenaw-Area/137390633002568
• http://sites.google.com/site/rejectemergencymanagers/home
• http://www.facebook.com/rejectemergencymanagers
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Comment 2 (Reply)
Re: “Come to grips with reality. The free money is done.”
Oh no, Dude, it's just getting started …
Seriously, you haven't seen industrial strength greed and wheeler-dealer corruption until you get the *real* experts into the game — private corporations who can use their very “privacy” to keep the Public from finding out where the money went until it's way too late.
Just to recall this week's example —
Detroit Free Press • “Under Bobb, Consultants Got Raises, Perks” (June 24, 2011)
• http://www.freep.com/article/20110624/NEWS01/106240443/Under-Bobb-consultants-got-raises-perks
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Comment 3 (Reply)
The point is that I already know what it's like to live in a State where unions are weak. I already know what it's like to have family income and job security month to month depend on an industry where unions are non-existent, an industry that has no middle class for all the wealth at the top. So, been there, done that. You can have it if you want it — just don't bring it here.
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Comment 4 (Reply)
Of course unions make a difference. Now you're just being cromulent. I guess some people just grubitate to cromulence.
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Comment 5
It is well past time we woke up to the fact that the wool being pulled over our eyes in the realm of public education extends to the entire sphere of public infrastructure and public services, all the things that the American People simply cannot afford to abdicate to the agents of private corporate profit, not to mention foreign national interests. Just by way of a hint, here's a recent article —
Dylan Ratigan • “America for Sale : Is Goldman Sachs Buying Your City?”
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-ratigan/america-for-sale-is-goldm_b_877285.html
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In Chicago, it's the sale of parking meters to the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. In Indiana, it's the sale of the northern toll road to a Spanish and Australian joint venture. In Wisconsin it's public health and food programs, in California it's libraries. It's water treatment plants, schools, toll roads, airports, and power plants. It's Amtrak. There are revolving doors of corrupt politicians, big banks, and rating agencies. There are conflicts of interest. It's bipartisan.
And it's coming to a city near you — it may already be there. We're talking about the sale of public assets to private investors. You may have heard of one-off deals, but what we'll be exploring with the Huffington Post is the scale and scope of what is a national and organized campaign to shift the way we govern ourselves. In an era of increasingly stretched local and state budgets, privatization of public assets may be so tempting to local politicians that the trend seems unstoppable. Yet, public outrage has stopped and slowed a number of initiatives.
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