when it comes to throwing out contracts and agreements.

First they cut taxes and revenue, then they justify not honoring previous agreements.

"Those people" never voted Republican anyway.

Funny how that works

The Obama Administration demanded Unions & Employees to accept drastic cuts to wages and benefits,
and agree that new plants did not have to be Union BEFORE authorization the Bailout.
The Auto Industry Executives & Investors were "saved" on the backs of Unions & Workers.

Some Double Standard we have in this country.

most executives are gone.
So, at least in your example, the double standard doesn't exist.

*the wages for New Hires at the plants is approximately 1/2 the previous wages.

*New Plants do not have to be Union.

Please cite some of the Wages, Perks, and Benefits the Obama Administration demanded from Wall Street?

IIRC, he went to bat FOR the extreme Bonuses paid to Wall Street Execs while the Nation was screaming for ClawBacks.

Surely you MUST remember that Contracts are Sacred Press Conference?
"We can't begrudge them their wealth."
I know some of these guys, "and they are just savvy businessmen."
"Its the Free market",
"I mean, look at all the Baseball players!"

You don't see a Double Standard between the treatment of Wall St
and the Auto Workers?
THEIR "contracts" certainly were not sacred.

you're wasting your time. I'm too angry about this stuff, so I'm going to step back before I say something that will be hidden. I applaud your passion, bvar.

and what you posted doesn't change that. As far as the contracts are sacred press conference, I do not remember it, and I'm sure not going to trust your memory since you misremembered how the auto bankruptcies worked.
You do know that the unions got part ownership of the new companies under the auto bail out.

why not do a little research to refresh your lapses?
Here.
I'll help you get started:

the government rescued the jobs at Chrysler and General Motors. They rescued the jobs and instead of thank yous, they get attacks from people who claim to care about union jobs.

Only if you don't realize the connection between tax revenues and program spending. In which case even a particularly dim third grader could have told Gov. Christie his budget scheme wouldn't work.

But, since the public employees' pension fund is already underfunded by $59 billion, what's another $2.3 billion shortfall? New Jersey isn't going to be able to fulfill its contract obligations anyway, and when the bill comes due, the popular media will be more than happy to paint the workers as opportunistic greedheads besieging a poor, beleaguered state that consistently wrote checks it couldn't cash. The last thing the state should do is tax a few of its wealthier residents, because that would be calamitous!

at least as long ago as the 1980's, possibly in the 1970's, that state and municipal governments had a huge unrecognized and underfunded pension problem. Just as too many corporations deliberately underfunded their pensions, so too have the governments. The govts also assumed that rising tax revenues would magically solve the problem.

No one deserves to have their pension snatched away from them.

When Illinois rewrote its constitution in 1970 a section was added mandating the state keep up it's obligations to the pension and to honor/not cut contractually agreed upon benefits so I suspect the problem was already serious before then.

Of course, underfunding somewhat really isn't the issue many make it out to be. 70% and up is considered adequate.

with the help of the new casino that Atlantic City Really REALLY needed.

It's enough to make you think that maybe he created the situation for precisely this purpose.


rocktivity

him.

despicable

This makes me so, so angry. There is a trait called empathy that so many republicans and too many democrats seem to lack.

Oh what that old B actor has wrought - he started the ball rolling big time and since then, through that old spook Poppy Bush, Bubba, Dubya, and Obama. Was Bubba as bad as the R's - no, nor has Obama been that. But those two also have caved to the Ruling Class while becoming wealthy themselves.

Take away or greatly reduce pensions that the non wealthy depend on so as not to tax the filthy rich further - unconscionable. Since Reagan this has happened over and over and consistently - and not just with republicans.

Our priorities have tilted toward greed and too many think the poor are poor because they deserve to be. Nice.

We need to get money out of politics ASAP so we don't keep heading toward some kind of "Elysium" reality.

In reality, there's no division between the two. You may feel sorry for that homeless man, but you support the economic policies that made him that way?