John Kasich is right about one thing -- other states must look at reforming collective bargaining for public employee unions. Here in California, Jerry Brown is quietly pushing pension reform for public employees here in CA. He has no choice -- the generous healthcare and defined benefit pension packages are unsustainable. They never were. Now we have to risk defaulting on the pensions of retired public employee or adopt a two-tiered system. (I believe Jerry is pursuing the latter.)
Something Republicans would like to do is limit the number of public pensions one can collect. (My father-in-law's girlfriend collects two state pensions, one from each of her deceased husbands, both of whom worked for the state.) From: M Christol [email protected] Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:18:52 -0800 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Stratalist-ot] Sweeping elections > Opting out of Obamacare was pretty pointless. People are saying it sends > a message to the supreme court. > um.... > I really figured 2&3 would sink or wim together but then a lot of people > were probably thinking like me (!) that while the union busting bill was > lame, reform is still needed. > > On 11/9/11 1:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Too bad Issue 2 didn't pass. It'll eventually lead to fewer state workers. > > > > But at least the Buckeyes had enough sense to opt out of the health care > > mandate: > > <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/08/ohio-voters-vote-to-opt-out-health-care-mandate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20foxnews/politics%20%28Internal%20-%20Politics%20-%20Text%29#ixzz1dAkNoYmQ> > > > > Out here they're about to elect a new Sheriff, and the current leader is > > the man that started the California Green Party (he's now a Democrat): > > > > <http://sfappeal.com/news/2011/11/sf-sheriffs-still-up-in-the-air-mirkarimi-narrowly-in-lead.php> > > > > Great guy with a good sense of humor. However, unlike the article says, he > > does have a law enforcement background. He was a gun-toting enforcer for > > NOAA, and was trained at the FBI facility in Quantico, VA. > > > >> Last election Republicans took a solid majority of Ohio seats. They > >> quickly rammed all sorts of legislation through. Yesterday, one of those > >> stare bills (union busting like in Wisconsin) was rejected by the voters. > >> The local reaction was pretty intense, tho. Every white Republican was > >> voted off the local city council - 4 out of 9. The lone remaining > >> Republican is a serious RINO. > >> New members include a crazy man, a rich kid, a young progressive liberal > >> girl& an ultra liberal gay guy. > >> moderates need not apply > >> > >> > > Francis Drouillard, PE > > Novato, CA 94945 > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > Francis Drouillard, PE Novato, CA 94945 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
