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  2. Issue 2 debate on NBC 4- NOW

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    I do pay into my retirement/health insurance and I am a public employee...Respiratory Therapist at a county hospital to be exact. Politicians are NOT going to be hurt by this bill, it is going after the middle class public workers. Quite honestly the benefits are the main reason to stay in a public sector job. I would make a lot more if I worked for a private hospital...just wouldn't have as good of retirement/benefits.

    How much do you pay into it? 10%-15% like SB5 would do across the board?

    Not saying benefits aren't a reason to get into the public sector, but obviously our budget can't handle what we have been trying to do. How many public workers have been laid off because we have no money?

  3. Issue 2 debate on NBC 4- NOW

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    Government unions have a straightforward business model: using money from members’ paychecks, lobby for endless tax increases and convince workers that only the union cares. From a taxpayer’s perspective this is bad enough, but OEA takes it one step further. The union pays itself big bucks to demonize Ohio’s elected officials and job creators.
    Larry Wicks,

    Executive Director $210,858

    Patricia Frost-Brooks,

    President $190,000

    Doug Crawford,

    Labor Relations Consultant $189,832

    Cecilia Weldon,

    Labor Relations Consultant $187,405

    Bill Leibensperger,

    Vice President $186,471

    James Martin,

    Assistant Executive Director, Business Services $171,528

    Kevin Flanagan,

    Assistant Executive Director, Member Services – Field $169,761

    Michael McEachern,

    Labor Relations Consultant $169,298

    Susan Babcock,

    Assistant Executive Director, Strategic/Workforce $169,148

    Rachelle Johnson,

    Assistant Executive Director, Member Services-Programming $164,525

    Mark Linder,

    Labor Relations Consultant $161,756

    Venita Shoulders,

    Labor Relations Consultant $158,432

    William Otten,

    Labor Relations Consultant $155,873

    Patricia Collins,

    Director, Region 1 $155,551

    Fritz Fekete,

    Director I/S & Research $154,635

    Mary Suchy,

    Director of Membership $152,636

    Randall Flora,

    Director, EI&I $152,114

    Rodney Bird,

    Labor Relations Consultant $152,058

    Jeffrey Kestner,

    Labor Relations Consultant $150,739

    These are just the OEA staff & officers paid more than $150,000. In 2010, more than 100 OEA employees were paid six figures! Strange that folks who make a living defending poor, unappreciated educators do so by shaking them down for triple the average Ohio teacher’s salary.

    http://biggovernment.com/jhart/2011/10/31/ohios-union-fat-cats-try-to-fool-voters-on-issue-2-public-sector-reform/

  5. Issue 2 debate on NBC 4- NOW

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    That what the newspapers from Ohio’s three largest cities found out when the looked past the rhetoric, and focused on the facts. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Columbus Dispatch, and the Cincinnati Enquirer all agree. Ohioans should vote YES on Issue 2. And what they say pretty much mirrors what we have been telling you.

    Some key quotes from The Plain Dealer:

    Ohio law must not impede reform, and it won’t if it creates a level playing field for public-sector workers and their employers.

    Right now, that field is tipped in favor of the unions. Recognizing that reality does not mean we oppose public-employee unions or that we do not appreciate what their members do and the sacrifices some already have made…

    In schools, the emphasis has to be on the progress of children, not the comfort of adults. In city halls and county offices, the impact on those who pay the bills — and the sheer magnitude of those bills — must be paramount.

    Rules that made sense in 1983 do not make sense anymore. Ohio needs a fresh start…

    When they mark their ballots, Ohioans cannot worry about what is best for any political party or interest group — on either side of this debate. They need to consider what’s best for the future of their children, their communities, their state.

    They need to pass Issue 2.

    The Columbus Dispatch looked at the facts honestly, and they concluded:

    Elected officials should be in control of public expenditures. For the nearly three decades since the advent of Ohio’s extremely lopsided collective-bargaining law, elected officials have had too little control over the overwhelming majority of their budgets: salaries and benefits for public employees. That was always poor public policy, but in better economic times, it was sustainable. It isn’t anymore…

    The claims of the anti-Issue 2 campaign have been intellectually dishonest. Chief among them is the suggestion that, with some bargaining-table leverage restored to them, state agencies and local governments instantly will begin slashing positions for firefighters and police and stop buying the equipment needed to keep the public safe. What possible motivation would a politician have for decimating safety services?

    In fact, the opposite is more likely. With more ability to control the escalation of salary and benefit costs, governments won’t be forced as often to impose layoffs, and might be able to afford to keep even more police and firefighters on the streets.

    And most recently, The Cincinnati Enquirer put aside the nastiness of this entire campaign and looked at what Senate Bill 5 does for Ohioans.

    For decades, Ohio has been on an unsustainable path of rapidly increasing public-sector benefits. SB 5 would give the people we choose to manage our money, our safety and our schools greater flexibility in benefits and work rules for public employees, bringing them closer in line with what comparable workers receive in the private sector. That could relieve the pressure to raise taxes and thus help, not hurt, middle-class Ohioans…

    So we urge a “yes” vote on Issue 2.

    If Issue 2 fails, the political climate may make it impossible to enact reforms for years to come, putting Ohio further behind the curve. We can’t let that happen. Vote “yes” on Issue 2.

    http://biggovernment.com/bytor/2011/10/31/major-ohio-newspapers-look-past-union-hysterics-endorse-issue-2-reforms/

  10. Issue 2 debate on NBC 4- NOW

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    Issue 2 will make public employees pay into their healthcare and retirement instead of the tax payers, correct? If they have to pay their own, wouldn't the taxes that don't go to healthcare and retirement anymore be used to hire more police and firefighters, buy equipment, etc? Small reduction in take home pay = more jobs available right?

    Taking away bargaining for safety equipment isn't even on the table from what I have read.

    If SB5 stays in place, this will allow the worst teachers/FD/PD to be fired instead of just the low man on the totem pole correct?

    Collective bargaining forces teachers of the year to be laid off instead of the bad teachers. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/how-collective-bargaining-forced-milwaukee-fire-teacher-year_553779.html

  21. Stuck with Ebay bid on Vstrom

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    We all hate having to pay more for something because the seller maniuplates you into believing that the 'market' demands that price. Especially for something we can't chose to not buy (medications etc).

    Here's an example... Ever heard of the guys who drive up to you at gas stations / parking lots etc and try to sell you sell speakers out the back of their van "Left over after deliveries" kind of thing. At one time they called themselves OmniAudio. They tried that on me a few times. One time they handed me an audiophile magazine with an ad for their speakers quoting a price of $1600. They they asked me for $1000 for the pair. Well, it turns out they never sell at $1600, they put that fake advert in there to make you think they are worth that. In reality they are a decent speaker fro the non-autiophile, but probbaly only worth $100.

    So is it good business, or is it a scam/con?

    As slimy as that is, anyone (talking generalization here, not individuals) that takes any action that drives up the price of something they sell (by intentionally temporarily limiting quantities, or by bidding up auctions similar items hoping to not have to buy them just to increase the average price that type of item sells for) is hurting many poeple for thier own gain. I'm sure they can rationalize it to themselves, but the rest of us are going to be tougher to convince. "So the Lexus I was going to pay 5k for I instead wound up paying 6k for because you placed bids that you did not intend to be successful just bid it up to 6k... Just so that when YOU sold YOUR lexus it would go for 6k because people would look other auctions to determine the value."

    This is not the market in action. This is market manipulation. Don't know if I can point to a law that forbids it, but then I can't point at a law that forbids you to eat dog poop either - doesn't make it right.

    Cash for clunkers? ;)

  24. Weird ar-15/m16 mag

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    So are these against the law as well like the drum mags? can have them just can't put them in the gun or load them? I ask cause I talked to Dale today about getting my ar built next month.
    Yep still illegal to put in a firearm

    And to load.

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