There's an "information" union meeting today. Mostly, they're going to tell us that this next contract, our current one is up in June, will be really hard to get since the state is predicting a $15 billion shortfall. Odds are, I think, that we won't get a cost of living increase this year if we get a new contract at all.
Will we strike or even get a strike vote this year? I doubt it. The state isn't going to be pulling in enough cash to cover its ass in June because of all the fucked-up loans that were given to people when they bought houses in the last year. I think our union will quickly come to a compromise that keeps the status quo and promise that in two years they'll come back strong and the majority of the members will vote that that's a good idea.
At least they're serving lunch. Sure, the party platters of cold cuts and the rolls won't be worth the $45 I put into the union each month, but it's something.
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Lord love them unions...
Almost as much as Lord loves them with most of the money.
So Arnold made the state poor?
I'm (often) not so petty that I'd blame this shortfall on him since he wasn't the one who forced so many people to be STUPID and take interest only loans and other cruddy deals to buy overpriced houses. He just turned a blind-eye to what was going on like nearly everyone else in the USA did.
In a few years when the $15 billion in bonds that he got through in 2004 comes due and I'm watching the state collapse under the weight of its debt, then I'll blame him.
Still, the governator sucks hog schlong.
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