(July 19, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Lek Wrote:(July 13, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The clown car has added Governor Scott Walker who to me is a special brand of asshole who has gutted labor to pay for more tax breaks for the rich!
In California and other states the cost of public employee retirement payouts is higher than the pension funds can cover. In California this results in money being taken from the general fund to make up the difference. This issue has helped bring some cites to bankruptcy and has become a major item of concern in the state. Unions have resulted in much good for workers over time, but they also were a huge factor in damaging the US steel and auto industries. Walker didn't end the unions and has probably saved public employee pensions, rather than losing them through bankruptcy.
That's bullshit about unions damaging auto and steel. Unions are the reason that America's middle class grew at the rate it did and gave consumers the buying power that made those industries grow into what they where. Those industries along with the rest of the manufacturing sector fell victim to outsourcing and globalization.
