Another Domino Falls in Dem War on Blue

WRM, for me it’s not just a blue model issue – we (the country) desperately need economic and political reform; how do we honestly go about it in our riven and diversity layered milieu? Stressed public budgets and pension costs are plaguing states and local governments coast to coast. Our public management problems cannot be facilely dropped on only blue. Going forward who has the biggest stake in cleaning up this problem – Certainly not PUBPOLS and public unions?

“Reality can only be resisted so long.”

Don’t dream it, be it.

“Democratic mayors and governors are acting in ways that not even the most radical Republicans did ten years ago. They have no choice: reality can only be resisted so long.”

How much better off would everyone be if Right thinking Fiscally Conservative Republicans had been in control from the beginning? That Democrats are being forced to take action in the face of fiscal disaster, just tells you that they are incompetent to design an optimal fiscal structure that would maximize growth, and not just take the minimal actions necessary to stave off disaster. Clearly with the Democrats in control, the best that can be hoped for is grinding poverty, rampant crime, and hopeless Stagnation. If you want your family to thrive, you must go to where the Republicans have control, and where the TEA Party is strong. Move now to a Red state, or a soon to be Red state, and abandon the Leftists to their self induced economic horror show. You are not responsible for their condition, and you are not obligated in any way to help them by staying and sacrificing your life and your family’s lives paying for their mistakes.
If you live in any one of the following states, you need to get out as quickly as possible: California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, DC, Vermont, Hawaii, and Washington. These are all deep blue states and they will spend decades in stagnation, while the Red states grow and harvest the future.

Again …. public sector employees have been riding a gravy train for at least a generation now.

And forgive me, but I have literally never met anyone on a state or local government payroll who worked hard … nothing compared to what is regularly done in the private sector from where I hale.

The brunt of any adjustments must fall on those in the public sector, and it seems even Democrat politicians recognize this reality.

Thanks for continuing to call national attention to this issue in RI. We humble conservative bloggers at anchorrising.com have been struggling within the Ocean State for several years calling attention to these deep-seated problems. Unfortunately, as we predicted, no action was taken until it was basically too late. Hopefully, the shell game is finally over.

Good first steps. Keep them coming.

Only Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has had the courage to take this on full-tilt and organized labour went ballistic! Here in Milwaukee I am bombarded daily by MSM stories about the unions, protests and how the recall election will drive Walker from office. One the main Democrat contenders, Kathleen Falk even runs under the central theme that she will return the unions to power! Bought.Lock, stock and barrel.
The mantra of the left is ‘evil republicans’ are trying to balance the budget.
Evil Democrats have sold out my children’s future to ensure their own political power.

Providence now, Los Angeles and San Francisco are looming on the horizon.

Rudyard Kiplings The Gods of the Copybook Headings needs to be required reading these days.

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Jacksonian said:
If you live in any one of the following states, you need to get out as quickly as possible: California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, DC, Vermont, Hawaii, and Washington.

You forgot Maryland, which should rank several from the bottom of your list.

tom

I wonder when the message will reach the Democrats in Commifornia? There is NO MORE MONEY numbskulls!

The obvious thing to do is to outright ban all public employee unions, as they are a conflict of interest to the citizenry.

The only difference between these Democrats and Scott Walker is that Scott is making it slightly better for the average state worker by enabling them to soften the blow by getting back their union dues. Of course, that won’t work with the Democrats because the Dems have already spent the money that will be sent to them….

“…is planning to embark on one of the largest rounds of cuts the city has ever seen.”

Not giving a “cost of living increase” is NOT A CUT. The pensioner gets the same amount of money as the prior year.