[quote=paramount][quote=CA renter]BTW, can someone tells us again how the unions caused all our financial problems?[/quote]
Who said they caused ALL of our financial problems?
I would say no more than 90% of our financial problems were caused by the public employee unions in California.[/quote]
How do you arrive at your 90%?
How did you factor in tax breaks (including Prop 13 protection that subsidizes the profits of RE “investors”), or the added burden of an increasingly large illegal immigrant population? How did you factor in the housing bubble and subsequent burst? How about the investments that the pension funds lost so much money on (that had nothing to do with the unions, BTW)? Did you factor in the bond measures that voters have repeatedly voted for, many of whom don’t even grasp that these bonds represent DEBT (kid you not, I’ve had some Republican friends and relatives who thought that bonds “paid for themselves”)?
You think unions are responsible for 90% of our budget problems…seriously?
