[quote=CDMA ENG]And a couple of things of note CAR…
One. Linemen are very skilled labor. They are highly paid because simply, if the f up, they’re dead. I have worked with many in my years of cellular and they have everybit of shitty union attitude of anyone I have ever met.
Two. I have heard the word lineman used to mean the rank and file. Just because you have not heard the term doesn’t mean anyone else has.
Three. I have listened to you espouse all day long the plight of the working man, not a trival matter, but surely misguided. A lot of you believe to be the correct role of goverment in business has been tried. The results… Greece, Italy, Spain… pick another Eurozone country…
Do you really think this goverment is some how impervesus to the same policies? This really is what is being discussed and at the root cause of the EUs failures and maybe ours…
Think about it…
Take care,
CE[/quote]
Oh, I could not agree more! Sdr was referring to public employees as “line workers,” and I’m quite sure he meant it in a derrogatory way. Understand that this thing between sdr and myself goes back a ways and has it’s root in discussions on and off-line. He has an elitist attitude WRT people who do acutal work.
I would NEVER put down workers…I’m a socialist. 🙂
As far as Greece, Italy, Spain…not only do they have “generous” benefits; they (especially Greece) have a huge black market, and tax evasion is a national pastime. One this is certain, you can have generous benefits and high taxes, or you can have no/few benefits and no/low taxes, but you cannot have both. Greece, and the other countries to a lesser extent from what I’ve read, have been trying to have their cake and eat it, too. That clearly will never work.
I also think this one of the problems underlying our debt/deficit problems. Our tax rates are at historic lows, but our expenditures are at/near historic highs. I believe we need to address BOTH the spending AND the incredibly low tax rates.
