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2010-12-30 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by gorb 2010-12-30 13:42|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 If Bloomberg had any guts at all he'd do a Reagan vs PATCO and fire the lot of them for this action endangering public safety.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-12-30 14:46|| 2010-12-30 14:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Public needs don't always require public employees.

The streets and sanitation jobs required in any city or village could be privatized without harm to the public.

My village (admittedly a fairly small one) has a private contractor for sanitation, and a few public employees for routine road maintenance. When the snow comes they hire additional private help.

Any major city could do this. Privatize garbage pickup. Keep a core of public employees for routine road and street maintenance, and supplement with private temp help when needed.

Posted by Steve White 2010-12-30 15:50|| 2010-12-30 15:50|| Front Page Top

#3 OTOH, most of these guys would never find a job again as no private concern would ever consider them. Unions protect union bosses, stewards and a whole lot of laziness.

I was watching the movie titles on Sherlock Holmes the other night and it listed two people as Standby Painter and Standby Carpenter. Standby?

Posted by Omiting the Younger 2010-12-30 16:50|| 2010-12-30 16:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I think a charge of negligent homicide in some cases might be called for if it can be proven that their antics prevented medical assistance from arriving - a examination of past snowstorms might help show this.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-30 16:55|| 2010-12-30 16:55|| Front Page Top

#5 a public union that uses a crisis to try and extort benefits should be decertified, broken, and crushed. The leaders who pushed this should be held responsible for all the deaths and injuries due to unplowed roads and no access for emergency services - i.e.: criminal punishment and civil suits. Crush them

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-30 18:05|| 2010-12-30 18:05|| Front Page Top

OTOH, most of these guys would never find a job again as no private concern would ever consider them.

Not seeing a problem here.

Any way we could keep them from ever receiving any public assistance? They were given high-paying jobs and sweet benefits in exchange for doing a job vital to the public safety. They abandoned that duty as a "protest" and, as a result, people died.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-12-30 18:24|| 2010-12-30 18:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Any time you see this kind of abuse in the public sector, brutally crush it. screw politics, this is life or death. Someone better be going to Jail.

Posted by newc 2010-12-30 18:51|| 2010-12-30 18:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste
Who else but Rahm?

Posted by tipper 2010-12-30 20:29|| 2010-12-30 20:29|| Front Page Top

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