I don't see it as different in any material way, Rick. The fact that the employer is the state is, in my opinion, immaterial. If the costs of providing a retirement, or health care, or any other benefit that they acquire through negotiation is to be passed on to the end user of their services...
A union man, a CEO, and a Tea Party member are sitting in a pastry shop, when the waitress brings over a plate with a dozen chocolate chip cookies on it.
The CEO eats one of the cookies and puts ten more in his pocket. He then turns to the Tea Party member and says "You better keep an eye on...
Genuine - the labels with which you self identify are immaterial. The bottom line is, you may end up being right. Then again, you may end up being so far out in left field that statements like those you are making receive even more ridicule than we are currently heaping on them now. Bush is...
Well, those people don't count, Mesty. Everyone on your list is either a liberal, or at the very least, needed to have their rights violated. Genuine is only speaking on behalf of conservatives - you know - the people that really count.
LMAO - you have GOT to be kidding.
You spent two pages of posts demonizing anyone that had the temerity to badmouth Bush, and here, in two short paragraphs, you reduce your entire position to an admission that it's nothing more than a prediction of what you'd like to see come to pass.
Two items of note.
First, your qualifier is correct - "many of the times" - but not all.
Second - there are (undoubtedly) times where the question is never brought to court.
Now who's being naive?
That's the beauty of the Patriot Act. If your liberties have been infringed, you'll almost certainly never know it.
But hey, we have your assurances - what more could we possibly need?
Come on, Proud. We've only had state legislators pass ridiculous bills that prohibit the building of mosques or the implementation of Sharia law.
As I'm sure Genuine Realist will tell you - that's just good government.
When you leap to conclusions like those above, you are right to expect your post to be met with derision and contempt. You are obviously well read, and you do a good job of expressing yourself. Your breakdown comes when you reach such sweeping conclusions based on insufficient evidence, and...
No religion is scientifically proven, although many try to claim the mantle.
No religion ever will be scientifically proven, so you might want to learn to find company in the other religions.