Monday, February 21, 2011

One Republican Governor Gets It -- Almost

Rick Snyder, the Republican governor for the Great State of Michigan, almost gets it:
Amid days of protest in Wisconsin over legislation to limit collective bargaining, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said he won't "pick fights" with the state's employee unions.
"We're going to go negotiate with our unions in a collective-bargaining fashion to achieve goals," the Republican governor said in an interview. "It's not picking fights. It's about getting people to come together and say here are the facts, here are the common-ground solutions."
The article goes on to say that Snyder is looking for cuts in employee health benefits, especially those for retirees.  Which is why I said he almost gets it.

Snyder, like every other elected official, regardless of party, claims that a bulk of their budgetary problems stem from the cost of health care.  But every single one of them wants to take it out on the workers, even though they have nothing to do with the price of health care, but not one single politician that I'm aware of (with the exception of President Obama and the late Senator Ted Kennedy) actually wants to do anything to fix the real problem, the cost of the health care.

4 comments:

  1. Well, Obama said that insurance prices were going to go down, but instead they are going uip.
    Maybe if Obama, Reid and Pelsoi kept their word, perhaps the states wouldn't be in such bad shape.

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  2. Maybe if the money grubbing Republicans weren't under control of Big Insurance and Big Pharma, Obama's plan would have been allowed to happen without being sabotaged and we'd be out of the Bush/Cheney recession.

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  3. And BTW, Detroit had to close down half their schools. Who has been in charge of Michigan before the elections to cause this mess?

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  4. What does that have to do with collective bargaining? Oh yeah, nothing.

    Thanks, Dan.

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