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Liberal_Stalwart71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 09:17 PM
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26. They've been calling in all the talk shows and repeating all the talking points from the wingnuts.
They seem to be from New Jersey. The fat-ass governor has been doing a great job targeting teachers, lying about how teachers are being paid too much. (The same lie against the unions.) The problem is that these talking points are being repeated over and over and over and over again until even smart people like my father begin to believe it.

Fattie is trying to deflect blame from himself and direct it to the teachers, fire fighters, cops, first responders...all public sector jobs.

Why are Americans so fucking stupid!!!!
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  -What the hell is with this constant BASHING of teachers and police officers bigdarryl  Aug-09-10 07:04 PM   #0 
  - I have not seen anyone here  safeinOhio   Aug-09-10 07:08 PM   #1 
  - More scapegoating in a bad economy.  ananda   Aug-09-10 07:08 PM   #2 
  - Public servants - teachers, cops, firefighters, government workers are the new welfare queens to the  Pirate Smile   Aug-09-10 07:11 PM   #3 
  - They were *always* depicted as "welfare queens." Anyone who is not a member of the private  Liberal_Stalwart71   Aug-09-10 09:20 PM   #27 
  - someone must be giving orders?  Rosa Luxemburg   Aug-09-10 07:12 PM   #4 
  - Here is the plan:  Pirate Smile   Aug-09-10 07:18 PM   #5 
     - copies of his Morris's emails would make some excellent TV ads  Rosa Luxemburg   Aug-09-10 07:25 PM   #8 
  - It's because those are among the few occupations  doc03   Aug-09-10 07:20 PM   #6 
  - It's really about bashing their unions  rocktivity   Aug-09-10 07:22 PM   #7 
  - Repukes HATE unions. They know that a rising tide lifts all boats.....  lib2DaBone   Aug-09-10 07:26 PM   #9 
  - Meg Whitman is running for Gov of CA...  JuniperLea   Aug-09-10 07:28 PM   #10 
  - Actually the problem is that public servants now make more than the private sector.  dkf   Aug-09-10 07:33 PM   #11 
  - No they don't. But nice right wing mythology there.  Hansel   Aug-09-10 07:44 PM   #12 
  - Federal pay ahead of private industry in 8 of 10 occupations.  dkf   Aug-09-10 07:51 PM   #13 
  - Maybe. I'm talking state workers who are usually the ones being bashed.  Hansel   Aug-09-10 07:55 PM   #14 
  - See second link. Those are state and local workers.  dkf   Aug-09-10 08:28 PM   #19 
     - "Average salaries are $39.18 for public and $27.07 for private"  LostinVA   Aug-09-10 08:41 PM   #22 
        - You do realize that is from the Chicago Federal Reserve?  dkf   Aug-09-10 09:46 PM   #28 
           - You do realize the largest component of "Private sector" jobs are retail and food service??? DUH!  Go2Peace   Aug-09-10 10:11 PM   #38 
  - i dont know  MikeW   Aug-09-10 07:58 PM   #15 
  - Well if you can find some other numbers....  dkf   Aug-09-10 09:47 PM   #29 
  - Nice selective use of stats. State and Local pay less than average  Go2Peace   Aug-09-10 08:16 PM   #17 
     - If the salaries of the general population collapses can they afford to have taxes raised to keep  dkf   Aug-09-10 08:43 PM   #23 
        - That is not the "discussion" that is being had  Go2Peace   Aug-09-10 09:56 PM   #32 
           - and its its no longer true  MikeW   Aug-10-10 06:38 PM   #46 
  - The one thing we can all agree on : private sector workers are utter shit.  AngryAmish   Aug-09-10 09:14 PM   #25 
     - what? Nobody is saying that. Show me an OP that says that?  Go2Peace   Aug-09-10 09:57 PM   #33 
  - Really? What is your source for this comparison?  MichiganVote   Aug-09-10 08:26 PM   #18 
  - Two links here.  dkf   Aug-09-10 09:49 PM   #30 
  - hahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahaha  LostinVA   Aug-09-10 08:40 PM   #21 
  - Govts jobs are less stratified.  dkf   Aug-09-10 09:51 PM   #31 
     - Sure, because most room cleaners and fast feed joints pay poverty wages  Go2Peace   Aug-09-10 10:00 PM   #34 
     - This was in the federal reserve study. Did you even read it?  dkf   Aug-09-10 11:44 PM   #42 
     - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA  LostinVA   Aug-09-10 10:30 PM   #41 
  - SEC regulators make more than private sector employees in the securities market?  CreekDog   Aug-09-10 10:22 PM   #40 
     - The attorneys argument is especially silly  LostinVA   Aug-10-10 05:24 AM   #43 
  - Delegitimzing government.  nemo137   Aug-09-10 08:04 PM   #16 
  - No there isn't  treestar   Aug-09-10 08:31 PM   #20 
  - I think the OP is talking about the new meme  Hansel   Aug-09-10 08:45 PM   #24 
     - Exactly. And the only "counter" argument coming from our Party is  Go2Peace   Aug-09-10 10:04 PM   #35 
  - They've been calling in all the talk shows and repeating all the talking points from the wingnuts.  Liberal_Stalwart71   Aug-09-10 09:17 PM   #26 
  - And we have our own little anti-government/anti-union voices here as well  Go2Peace   Aug-09-10 10:05 PM   #36 
     - I've noticed that as of late. I work for the federal government, and I've seen posts  Liberal_Stalwart71   Aug-09-10 10:09 PM   #37 
  - My father was a high-school math teacher  AnnieBW   Aug-09-10 10:16 PM   #39 
  - It's a measure of the incredible trust we have historically placed in these professions...  Orsino   Aug-10-10 07:37 AM   #44 
  - False equivalency, n/t  Greyhound   Aug-10-10 01:58 PM   #45 
  - dont worry Federal Employees are now in the bullseye this week  MikeW   Aug-10-10 06:39 PM   #47 
 

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