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So, Carrol, you trust Corporate America to pull us out of a recession that they put us into in the first place with their greed and malfeasance? It was Wall Street with their credit default swaps, predatory lending, mortgage fraud and the Subprime lending scandal which lead to the largest housing bubble burst in history and nearly the largest loss of wealth for the middle class in the history of the US... ALL perpertrated by your trusted corporate America. Yet unions are stealing your money? These are the people who lace up their boots and slip on some heels and actually WORK for you. LOOK WHAT WE GET FOR 18 bucks per thousand: Excellent waste removal and recycling, a trust worthy well equipped, fast responding police dept that has kept the violence of other communities away from your door. A excellent fire dept that answers over 16,000 runs a year. Mostly for EMS to aid you when you are sick or dying. A FD that responds so quickly to fires and contains them so well that the news channels barely bother covering them because these fires are out long before their van can even get there! A city works department that clears these streets of snow like no other community in the state! A city works that will still come pick up your yard waste and large debris! Almost no other community does that any more. A city yard that maintains wonderful parks, ball fields, a pool and an ice rink and roads. IT TAKES PEOPLE TO DO THESE THINGS! Sure they get a nice pension. That doesnt make the union crooks because you deserve a nice pension for your labors too. Corporate America is the one who defrauded you of your wealth and retirment.

I will admit there are two things that the recession shined a light on that will be beneficial to us if solved.

1.) SOME pensions in RI had unsustainable features like the COLA's in Providence. (COLAs in Warwick never worked that way mind you...) Overall some pensions in RI were in need of some reform. What we have seen since 2008 is time after time Unions voting to make concessions, change pensions and amend contracts. If you look at most of the rhetoric on both sides you would see that Unions never had a problem giving up something. That is evidenced in the 10's upon 10's of millions willingly given up by Unions since 2008. It was how cities and the state attempted to do it which they took issue with.

2.) Democrats in this state no longer pander to Unions. Look around, unions are taking hit after hit. Democrats now pander to the WELFARE CLASS!!! Its not working people, union or non union who are destroying the country. Its the polar opposites that are: The super-rich and the welfare class. Now, thats not to say we shouldnt have some programs to help people. Of course we should. BUT!!! When 3.4 BILLION dollars of this states annual budget goes to social services and entitlements, or NEARLY HALF of last years approx 7.4 BILLION dollar budget goes to SSI/SSDI and their FREE CELL PHONES, SNAP, RItecare, Section 8, Corrupt PROCAP and on and on and on and on.... These programs are rife with fraud, PEOPLE ACTUALLY STEALING from the working class and guess what? THEY ARENT Union memebers. Democrats cater to them. They give them everything they want at the expense of working people and that along with corporate greed (not corporate profit mind you. Profit is a good thing, greed leads to recessions...)

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