Good News - AFSCME

[merjet]

Protesting forced AFSCME union contributions.

AFSCME is #3 among organization contributors here, 99% to Dems & Liberals. I hope the SEIU is targeted next.

[moralist]

California's state government is completely controlled by liberal Democrat public employee unions. With a liberal Democrat governor, a liberal Democrat majority in the Assembly, and a liberal Democrat majority in the Senate, they enjoy carte blanche with obscenely lavish wages salaries paid time off insurance healthcare disability and retirement benefits.

Los Angeles' city government is completely controlled by liberal Democrat public employee unions. With a liberal Democrat Mayor, a liberal Democrat City Council, they enjoy carte blanche as to their obscenely lavish wages salaries benefits healthcare disability and retirement.

"A democracy CANNOT exist as a permanent form of government. It can ONLY exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."

[Selene]

California's state government is completely controlled by liberal Democrat public employee unions. With a liberal Democrat governor, a liberal Democrat majority in the Assembly, and a liberal Democrat majority in the Senate, they enjoy carte blanche with obscenely lavish wages salaries paid time off insurance healthcare disability and retirement benefits.

Los Angeles' city government is completely controlled by liberal Democrat public employee unions. With a liberal Democrat Mayor, a liberal Democrat City Council, they enjoy carte blanche as to their obscenely lavish wages salaries benefits healthcare disability and retirement.

"A democracy CANNOT exist as a permanent form of government. It can ONLY exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."

Seems the author of the above quote appears to be in dispute...

The following quotation has been attributed to Tytler, although it has also been occasionally attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville:[citation needed]

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilisations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.

This text was popularised as part of a longer piece commenting on the 2000 U.S. presidential election, which began circulating on the Internet during or shortly after the election's controversial conclusion.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler

[moralist]

Yes it is, Adam...

...which is why I left the attribution blank so it's disputed authorship would not obscure the point.

That statement is true regardless of who said it.

Greg

[merjet]

Possibly I made a typo when I posted on Jan 6 that  AFSCME is #3 among organization political contributors here, Anyway, AFSCME is #2 now, and #3 is the National Education Association (NEA). The California Teachers Association is a state affiliate of the NEA. The Supreme Court just ruled on the Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association. Supreme Court deadlocks over public employee union case; Calif. teachers must pay dues. 

 

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The justices said they were split on a challenge brought by a group of California teachers who claim their free speech rights are violated when they are forced to pay dues to the state’s teachers union.

Right-leaning legal groups and some of the court’s conservatives had made a priority of overturning a more than 40-year-old Supreme Court precedent and getting rid of so-called “agency fees.”

It appeared that is exactly what would happen when the case was argued in January. But Justice Antonin Scalia died a month later and with him went the chance of a five-member majority.