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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (78985)	2/8/2010 2:17:11 PM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224858

Wrong. I am in no way a Palin supporter. But, you are lying again...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (78985)	2/8/2010 2:23:34 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224858

Interesting article in the SJ Merc saying technology workers in the Silicon Valley lost ground on wages the past decade... You know.. those people who actually design stuff to be manufactured... I left the field in 1998 after reading the writing on the wall... yet I bet the teachers, prison guards, cops, DAs, social workers, and anyone else with a "No fire - job for life" California Union Card is making 20 to 40%, if not more.... They yack about days off without pay here while my friends at places like HP and Intel took pay cuts then had bonuses tied to how well the companies do... why not structure government worker jobs the same? Cut wages 20 or 30% then give a bonus on performance with 1 to 10% available if economy grows 1 to 10%, another 10% available if tax collections grow 1 to 10% and the last 10% due to merit where ALL workers are ranked by supervisors and bottom gets zero and top gets 10%. If you are in the bottom 10% three years in a row, you are fired and told government work is not your strength. SO SIMPLE to solve our problems, but the solutions are not wanted by slackers. To: fred woodall who wrote (422) 2/8/2010 2:13:33 PM From: Kirk © of 425 <<ROAR!!>> People in the US fret over Greece and others not being able to pay their bills. CA has ALREADY made its own currency that was accepted for a few weeks... they called it IOUs.