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Old 05-01-2011, 08:36 PM   #1
classicman
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Blame the R's start a thread and whine, but when the D's do a similar thing ...
nary a peep.

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Pop quiz: What political party, in what state, this week passed a bill in the dead of night stripping public-sector unions of their collective- bargaining powers? Republicans in Wisconsin? The GOP in Ohio or Indiana?

Try Democrats in Massachusetts.
Maybe the debate over public-sector benefits isn't all that ideological after all.

That would be the view of Massachusetts Democratic Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, who late Tuesday led an overwhelming majority of his House in passing a bill divesting policemen, firefighters, teachers and other municipal employees of the power to collectively bargain most health-care benefits. The 111-42 vote took place at 11:30 at night, so as to avoid a mass of protesting union workers set to descend on the State House the next day. The cheek.

The unions, in short, have walked Massachusetts so far into a hole that even Democrats can no longer ignore the problem
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Where is your outrage?
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