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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (181062)	2/1/2009 2:29:03 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Respond to of 306849

the fact that you're not surprised only illustrates how entrenched the entitlement mentality is, boiled frog indeed... this wasn't about her "need", this was about her DESIRE....this is where we have come in the country, i want it and dammit i will get it and SOMEBODY will pay....we're reduced to 3 classes in this country, the plutocrats (you need no more vivid example than geithner, daschle, rangal, dodd and the whole despicable congress that voted their raise) then you have the productive class being squeezed on all sides with little or no voice, (oh yeah, they voted for CHANGE and it's going to be thrust upon them, good and hard) and finally, the dependent class(under which i include the majority of gov't employees, those not employed for NECESSARY services) to whom the plutocrats now pander for votes guaranteeing a permanent position of power..... which expanding as the 'stimulus' steals unthinkable amounts from the producers... i cannot tell you that amount of outrage...i mean it was visceral when i read it... knowing that CA is basically BK and yet the entitlement mentality reflected in this story defies all logic and common sense....and the people 'shrug', worse this person will be rewarded for being the phreak that she is...(a UK 'nappy' contract in the works? anything to sell diapers i suppose) to repeat: The problem is that there is no "someone else" and the bill is on the table. We will pay that check, and it will be paid through radical contraction in our standard of living and, if we do not stop rewarding these sorts of actions and instead try to bail them out we will suffer an all-on economic and social collapse. i disagree with karl somewhat in that there is someone else, and that target is drawn on my back, my friend's, family's back.... that's we're in the producer class (at least so far)....it's getting very close to the time for the "someone else's" to give serious consideration to getting out of dodge before as you say it all comes crashing down

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (181062)	2/1/2009 2:42:50 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Patricia, but what happens when it crashes and we are left with the dust heap? the government class will not give up their cherry benefits and fat pay raises without a fight - and make no mistake, they own the CA legislature. the legislature was fine cutting medical expenses and reducing welfare, but when arnold started cutting 2 days a month from the union workers, then the legislature had a problem. the fed gave enough people enough to rope to hang themselves and "hang 'em high" is what they did to themselves.