Comments on: Oakland’s well-paid police https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:16:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Public Sector Unions: Multiple Vampires « Sake White https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172835 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:16:12 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172835 […] Sector Unions: Multiple Vampires This reminds me of the Oakland metro shooting. As well as the riots that were threatened and carried out after […]

]]> By: Maggie's Farm https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172534 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:01:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172534 Thursday morning links…

Ever hear of Bikini Ideology? Sounds like envy to me.
What’s next in space?
Chesterton on the Three Stages of Conversion (h/t Anchoress)
Poll: Faith in Social Security system tanking
Rasmussen: Paul up 8 in Kentucky
Limbaugh responds t…

]]> By: Charles https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172507 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:10:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172507 “The people of New Jersey have woken up to their similar situation and elected Chris Christie as a result.”

The people of New Jersey have had a lot more to deal with – just read the book titled “The Soprano State.”

Some of what has gone on in Jersey just makes me sick! My own county, Monmouth, (as mentioned in the book) paid $50,000 (small peanuts in the grand scheme of things; but it is still tax dollars) for a study to determine if the county should pay their lawyers a flat annual salary or a fee based upon incident. And guess who was paid to conduct that study? That’s right, the county lawyers who will benefit from the result of that study. And this was legal!

NJ taxpayers are just tired of all the sh*t that goes on.

]]> By: Curtis https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172470 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:38:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172470 Even FDR was against the idea of public unions.

]]> By: Occam's Beard https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172468 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:34:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172468

I think now more than ever that liberals really did expect the economy and employment to expand under their policies of the past 18 months. Instead the economy has tanked and put a laser like focus on the sheer unsustainability of their economic ideas, past, present and future.

Ah, but that’s because they didn’t have the Right People in charge. If they did…paradise!

]]> By: turfmann https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172464 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:55:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172464 Refudiating ( 😉 gotta love the new Palinism) the entirety of the liberal economic theory (no Ph.d from the University of Chicago necessary)

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch”

]]> By: PA Cat https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172450 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:15:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172450 Neo– apologies for going OT, but since that this thread is about compensation, have you seen Sara Hamdan’s article at First Things on the bleak future of dance? Given your love of ballet, you will want to read it (warning: it’s a long article but well worth the time):

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/07/last-rites

]]> By: George https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172446 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:52:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172446 The problem isn’t just the public sector unions. Executives sometimes are overpaid as well. Here’s the ultimate example, a city manager in a city of 36,000 being paid $800,000 a year, twice what Obama makes, though they don’t throw in a big white house:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/la-me-0716-bell-residents-20100716,0,1384235.story?track=rss-topicgallery

]]> By: Hong https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172428 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:56:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172428 Your friends may be the tip of the iceberg…or not. Mickey Kaus who made the point about the growth and pernicious influence of the unions only earned 100,000 votes. Of course he had no staff or budget. Personally I doubt any seismic change will occur. A few tremors and nothing else for another 2-4 years.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172399 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:06:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2010/07/21/oaklands-well-paid-police/#comment-172399 I think now more than ever that liberals really did expect the economy and employment to expand under their policies of the past 18 months. Instead the economy has tanked and put a laser like focus on the sheer unsustainability of their economic ideas, past, present and future.

Theres great irony in how the collectivist are being foiled by….the collective.

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