re: #174 austin_blue

It’s a *huge* problem! A promise made to State workers (or Feds or the Military) and not kept is immoral. State, Federal, and Military personnel accept lower wages than those in the private sector, (see Blackwater, Consultants, &c) to be civil servants (to work as the advocates for citizens of a state or nation) in large part because they know they will get benefits in their dottage that are as good or better than those received by equivalent workers in the private sector. If those promises are not kept, all hell will break loose. And should.

We have to keep reinforcing the strength of our overall society. Conservatives and Republicans claim they are not for Anarchy. What they don’t want is to extend the reach of the government. They also don’t seem to be willing to pay for our existing infrastructure and bills**medicare-D, wars, tax cuts for the wealthy**.
The Republicans also want to tell my daughter and niece what they can legally do with their own reproductive systems, strip the 14th amendment, allow creationism to be taught if public schools, hmmm. There’s more. I don’t want to go on too much. So~~~ there is a choice between the two parties.