[quote=sdduuuude][quote=CA renter]The entitlement culture of government contractors/the privatization movement is unreal.[/quote]
Pot calling the kettle black on that one.
Unions & gov contractors = same thing.[/quote]
No, they’re not. As direct government employees, unions and union members are more accountable (that’s why the govt outsources things to the private sector when they want to skirt existing laws), and everything about them is transparent; whether or not Joe Sixpack avails himself of all of the available public information is another matter. Additionally, middle-class public sector jobs that pay a living wage and have decent benefits are open to the public, and any qualified applicant will eventually get a job if he/she applies him/herself. The decent jobs offered by the privatization movement will usually be available only to those who are fairly well connected.
Repeating this, for those who still do not get it:
[quote=CA renter]Just so everybody understands, the “anti-union” propaganda is not being pushed by taxpayer advocates, and nothing that’s being proposed would result in lower taxes for taxpayer Joe Sixpack. The agenda is being pushed by the privatization movement, and their goal is not to reduce taxes for average Americans, but to privatize all public assets, resources, and cash flows…and further grow the income/wealth gap in this country. The private market has NOT lived up to the hype that they provide superior (or even similar quality) services for less (or even the same amount of) money. What they DO succeed at is eliminating middle-class, living-wage jobs from the economy and replacing them with low-wage jobs with no benefits, while creating a handful of “C-suite” positions in the private industry where the parasites can (individually) earn millions of dollars per year in taxpayer-paid compensation.
That is the goal of the privatization movement and the very wealthy people who are financing it, and the Lincoln Club is one of their shills.
The privatization movement has been privatizing more and more goods and services over the past few decades…have your taxes gone down (or service gone up) as a result?
Unions are the only obstacle standing in their way, and that’s why you’re hearing so much about the “evil” public sector unions the past few years. The privatization movement won’t let this economic crisis (caused 100% by those in the financial sector, NOT union workers) go to waste. If they weaken and eliminate the unions, they will own what little is left of this country, lock, stock, and barrel.
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Lincoln Club officers:
While I can’t say for sure that these are the same people (just doing searches of their names), it’s a good guess, since they are all executives in San Diego, and (surprise, surprise) they all work in the FIRE sector.
1. Steve Williams – Chairman
Steve Williams, Partner, co-founded SENTRE Partners in 1989. Steve focuses on new clients, new concepts and new ideas. He developed a relationship with GE Pension Trust, which together with SENTRE Partners has become a major stakeholder in downtown San Diego. Steve also co-founded Vesta with Lorenzo Berho. Incorporated in 1997, Vesta is a Mexican industrial real estate fund, with approximately 8 million square feet of leased industrial properties located throughout Mexico.
Steve is a co-founder of Bandwidth Now which transforms commercial buildings into “next gen” environments, treating bandwidth as a utility and Wi-Fi as an amenity using its patent pending Building Optical Network (BON). Bandwidth Now and SENTRE were nominated by Intel for the Computerworld Honors Program’s 21st Century Achievement Award. Steve was formerly a partner with Trammell Crow Company, where he was responsible for the San Diego division. Prior to that, he was an investment salesman for Coldwell Banker in their Santa Ana office. Steve began his career as a certified public accountant with Arthur Young and Co.
Steve is a grandson of Arthur Banker, co-founder of Coldwell Banker (and now CB Richard Ellis).
Since 1992, Dealy Development, Inc. (DDI) is a full-service Real Estate Developer & Development Management Firm. DDI is experienced in large-scale, mixed-use, complex, and challenging to entitle public and private projects.
Bill joined ProFinance® Associates, Inc. in February 1999 to service and assist clients in arranging various forms of equity and debt financing as
well as facilitating M&A while focusing on service businesses in the Southwestern United States and security businesses nationally. He serves on
the Board for MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego. Bill is a registered representative with the National Association of Securities Dealers.
Yep, developers, RE shills and “consultants”, and peddlers of financial services…just the sort of people you’d expect to be so concerned about Joe Sixpack’s tax bill. [/sarcasm][/quote]
