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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (745114)	10/8/2013 6:06:14 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577927

>No they don't. That's a slogan. Do we need to go into the specifics? >The fact is that, even compared to other transit workers in the state, BART employees are paid the best. Yet you think they deserve more? That only makes sense in your polyannish view of the world, where everyone makes a six figure salary and there is no poverty. They are NEGOTIATING for it. And of course, someone's going to be the top paid. Besides, from my experience, BART is the best and most important transit agency in the state anyway. There just isn't a heck of a lot of other mass transit in the state... look at LA. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (745114)	10/8/2013 7:04:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577927

Arizona GOP lawmaker equates Obama, Hitler By Steve Benen - Tue Oct 8, 2013 4:28 PM EDT AZCapitolTimes/flickr Arizona State Rep. Brenda Barton (R) The government shutdown hasn't exactly brought out the best in Republican policymakers. Arizona State Rep. Brenda Barton (R) compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler in a Facebook post Monday criticizing the rangers in the shuttered National Park Service for keeping the parks closed. She called on rogue "Constitutional Sheriffs" to arrest park service rangers for doing their jobs. Barton initially posted, urging citizens to encourage their local sheriffs to consider "revoking the arrest powers (that they granted in the first place) to federal agents operating within their county." ... But in a second posting, Barton minced no words, calling Obama "De Fuhrer [sic]" and urging local sheriffs to arrest park rangers who enforce rules keeping people out of National Parks that are closed due to the federal government shutdown. EDIT. ROTFLMAO It's quite a story. Barton, a right-wing state lawmaker who thinks she knows how to spell Hitler references, is angry about the government shutdown affecting national parks. From there, she somehow convinced herself that the president is "dictating beyond his authority." How? No one knows. Does she realize it was lawmakers from her own party that are responsible for the shutdown? Apparently not. Asked about her online comments, Barton told the Arizona Capitol Times, "It's not just the death camps. (Hitler) started in the communities, with national health care and gun control. You better read your history. Germany started with national health care and gun control before any of that other stuff happened. And Hitler was elected by a majority of people." The Republican state lawmaker went on to say her criticism of the president is "not controversial." It's nice of her to clear this up; she's obviously read her "history." Note, right-wing efforts to connect the ongoing Republican tantrum to World War II are not limited to strange Arizonans. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) equated his Republican critics to Neville Chamberlain and those who hoped to appease Hitler, while yesterday, Rep. Pete Sessions* (R-Texas) said if he accepted a center-right spending bill that re-opened the government, he'd be like the French " surrendering" to Germany. Congratulations, Republicans, you've managed to fail Godwin's Law and the country at the same time. * Correction: I originally typed "Jeff Sessions," when I meant "Pete Sessions." The text is correct now.