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Dont call me Shirley

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28. Wall St loves 401Ks, they're much easier to steal.

Reply to rayofreason (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 03:34 PM

Jun 2012

Sad, you've bought into the phony "free market" myth and the divide & conquer tactic of the reichies that 401k holders should be angry at traditional pension holders, sad!

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Live election blog: As in San Jose, San Diego voters also curbing pensions [View all] rayofreason Jun 2012 OP

It may be time to examine why the general voter out there seem to be against kelly1mm Jun 2012 #1

One problem is pensions... rayofreason Jun 2012 #2

DUers from a certain generation will be happy to remind you Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #4

Earnings in Wisconsin: Public Vs. Private golfguru Jun 2012 #9

And in November, we'll see more areas voting the same. Ah, and then there is double dipping. IndyJones Jun 2012 #26

That would be my generation. hay rick Jun 2012 #10

And the fools don't realize that the reason 401k are so low is because of the scam artists nanabugg Jun 2012 #15

I could be wrong quakerboy Jun 2012 #25

With a 401K what you have is a growing number of people in poverty at 65. jtuck004 Jun 2012 #8

So is the best path (politically) to fight to keep those pensions for public employees or to realize kelly1mm Jun 2012 #11

The best path is what is affordable golfguru Jun 2012 #29

Wall St loves 401Ks, they're much easier to steal. Dont call me Shirley Jun 2012 #28

Because the RW has campaigned against it endlessly Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #3

+100. Peregrine Took Jun 2012 #13

Its called reverse schadenfreude (ie misplaced bitterness and envy) stockholmer Jun 2012 #6

I agree that historically that was the case that public employees traded income for pensions/ kelly1mm Jun 2012 #12

unions (both public and private) are some of the few mass organisations that can stockholmer Jun 2012 #14

Bingo Bigredhunk Jun 2012 #5

good post Skittles Jun 2012 #7

No, it's actually about money. Spending by the Yes on B campaign (San Diego) was about 5 times... slackmaster Jun 2012 #17

If fairness cuts both ways, I'm hard pressed to remember a recent time Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #19

Moneyed interests have had the breaks going their way since money was invented slackmaster Jun 2012 #20

But yet there is no blowback against CEO plunder Arugula Latte Jun 2012 #23

Our problem is that there is no voice out there educating the masses about how they are being played nanabugg Jun 2012 #16

The management-level public employees I know personally are doing better than I am slackmaster Jun 2012 #18

Hate to say it, and I'll probably be flamed, but unreadierLizard Jun 2012 #21

I don't get that... Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #22

Yeah, teachers, cops and firefighters are always driving around in BMWs, drinking Cristal ... SomeGuyInEagan Jun 2012 #27

Why don't private sector workers like your parents join unions instead of resenting them? KamaAina Jun 2012 #31

Exactly my point Bigredhunk Jun 2012 #24

Correction: San Jose has a (DINO) KamaAina Jun 2012 #30