Social Security checks would still go out. Troops would remain at their posts.
And virtually every essential government agency, like the FBI, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard, would remain open.
The air traffic control system, food inspection, Medicare, veterans' health care and many other essential government programs would run as usual. The Social Security Administration would not only send out benefits but would continue to take applications. The Postal Service, which is self-funded, would keep delivering the mail. Federal courts would remain open.
I'm going out on a limb knowing there will be those sawing it off behind me, and the scientific community is united in that fact, but I don't believe Republicans are completely right on their collective bargaining stance.
ASSME and the Big Lug Nut are to blame for this with their bargaining (?) deal immediately following the election.
As a taxpayer, I appreciate that Republicans want to have us better represented at the table, but there are other ways to do it than removing the right to bargain for wages, hours and and working conditions (health insurance and retirement).
I'm no lawyer, although I play one on this blog, but it seems that the current law regarding collective bargaining gives the state an avenue to address cost issues...
20.17.6No collective bargaining agreement or arbitrators' decision shall be valid or enforceable if its implementation would be inconsistent with any statutory limitation on the public employer's funds, spending or budget or would substantially impair or limit the performance of any statutory duty by the public employer. A collective bargaining agreement or arbitrators' award may provide for benefits conditional upon specified funds to be obtained by the public employer, but the agreement shall provide either for automatic reduction of such conditional benefits or for additional bargaining if the funds are not obtained or if a lesser amount is obtained.
If that's not adequate, then change the statute.
I'm not happy with what seems to be an immediate and easy leap to binding arbitration and feel this could be tweaked by not waiving the fact finder step.
Also, drop the "free agent" idea because if you are having trouble negotiating with just three unions, you're not going to be able to fairly negotiate with thousands of individual employees.
The numbers of attendees at dueling (Terry Branstad's last name was on a sign in cross hairs, misspelled), err dualing statehouse rallies were across the spectrum.
For the Tea Party types, the count was 50, 60, 100 and 120.
Union supporter counts ranged from 500, 800 and 1,000.
Some in the media went with the safe, generic count of hundreds for both sides.
Oh Danny Boy, the Iowa Fed sent out its press release (maybe Thursday) on the rally and the media went with on Friday February 18 for a Tuesday February 22 event.
Chantrix is taken, at the most, twice per day and comes in a pack of 56 tablets for a cost of $150 (actually less) which would last 28 days.
Abell said he smoked 5 packs per day at a cost of $7 per pack for a 28 day total of $980.
In most people a bell would go off to ring in the savings of $830, but Abell's thoughts were too clouded and now more tax dollars have gone up in smoke.
That's called covering your ass, because if an employee called in sick and attended that rally, it would be immediate grounds for termination and possible legal action against the union.
They continued in that vain last week by playing Land of Confusion by Genesis on Wednesday, during morning drive, and Thursday, during afternoon drive.
Their lone live(?) jock tried to interject humor into his program with this little know fact aimed at the ladies...
Jocularity?
The first testicular guard, the "Cup", was in hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
Having grown up watching hockey, I knew it was wrong because Stan Mikita wore a helmet in the 1960s.
Quick research also found that George Owen was the first NHL player credited with wearing a helmet as a Boston Bruins' rookie defenseman in 1928.
Research also found that cricket has been used, instead of hockey.
Even though he's legally earned it and entitled to the money, some labor leaders (and the media) don't believe Terry Branstad should take his salary as Governor and his pension from previous service.
The man left a job that paid over $350,000 a year to try and revive this state from the hole the Dummycrats and Unions spent us into and ASSME questions his sacrifice?
Find me an elected union person that will sacrifice their union salary for the greater good of the members.
I refused my salary, as President, while the local was running a deficit.
The longtime staff told me that it had never been done before.
It was always interesting to see the people who would get elected to a position and then drive to the meetings in their new cars after that election.
These were the same people who objected when the Bylaws committee tried to end paid salary for officers.
It's probably more accurate to blame it on my vast number of albums and cd's.
I listen to 100.3 The Bus, because they're mostly automated.
Someone at the station needs to kick their computer in its CPU.
Yesterday, after "the bus driver" proclaimed "we play everything", they aired You May Be Right by Billy Joel.
I have no problem with Billy Joel, but that was the 3rd time I'd heard it in a week (Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday).
They followed that up with Refugee from Tom Petty, I don't mind Tom Petty as long as I don't have to look at him, but again it was the 3rd airing in a week.
The previous week it was Eddie Money's Shakin' and they aired it twice in 48 hours and in the same 4 p.m. day part.
I love Eddie Money, but The Bus seems to be running on fumes.
I don't recall such media scrutiny, only I and a few other bloggers remarked on it, when The Pickle or the Big Lug Nut made their choices of Brent Appel and David Baker during the previous 12 years.
That has to be on the mind of these kids who were co-opted by Iowa Senate Dummycrats for future campaign material.
The nearly identical pictures with Matt McCoy (top) and Amanda Ragan (bottom) ran in their hometown papers, the Ragister and Globe Gazette.
Boss Hogg and Squirmin' Herman Quirmbach were not so lucky, yet, with the Cedar Rapids Gazette or Ames Tribune. I wonder how long these kids were made to sweat it out under the hot lights?
He's progressed from someone I felt wasn't the guy to get it done (at the end of the 2006 season when it appeared Favre would retire) and someone the 69, 761 fans, at a 2007 season game I attended, booed when he replaced Favre and fumbled twice.
I had my concerns about Green Bay being favored before Sunday and I was downright worried when Charles Woodson went down.
I wasn't thrilled with Coach Mike McCarthey's play calling on 1st and 2nd down before the Pack settled for its field goal and had flashbacks to Super Bowl XLIII when Pittsburgh got the ball with 1:59 in the game.
Thankfully, NFL Title 13 resides with the team I've rooted on for 46 plus years.
This Packer Backer was so happy he broke out the Cheese Crown, given to him a few years ago by another Packer Backer, his oldest (pre-Kindergarten) friend.
