tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517736040315331529.post7413381758275366977..comments2024-03-02T16:12:21.262-05:00Comments on Jim Pillsbury's Web Blog: Who is going to pay... for all that unfunded insuranceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517736040315331529.post-74501920456563083512011-02-22T11:04:14.106-05:002011-02-22T11:04:14.106-05:00This is the story we should all be paying attentio...This is the story we should all be paying attention to and it is directly influenced by the people who will be watched via the corruption story here. If the unions in MA are allowed to continue running this state by being big contributors in both money and labor to political compaigns we will never survive this economic meltdown. Unions have a valid reason for exsiting, but too many of them lately have lost touch with reality and seem to think they are above the frey. Well they are not. If they think they are entitled to that cheap health care, then they should think everyone is entitled to it. So lets all get the same coverage option the unions get. Our taxes would all go sky high, but then they can’t complain about that, we are just getting what they have had for years and years now.Juniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11043491252184573973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517736040315331529.post-83580849741870616542011-02-22T10:47:01.475-05:002011-02-22T10:47:01.475-05:00Everyone talks about this and how bad it is, and t...Everyone talks about this and how bad it is, and then the CFO Kelley stands up and says we are ok spending money on all these other things as if we don’t have to worry about this. So, either people are trying to make a big deal out of nothing, or the town’s CFO does not know what she is doing. I would be interested in finding out which of those is actually the case.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793085913501493181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517736040315331529.post-32503422315505289472011-02-22T09:53:27.139-05:002011-02-22T09:53:27.139-05:00This blog has made it a lot more difficult to post...This blog has made it a lot more difficult to post anything here unless you post as anonymous, so from here on in, I am going to do that. Anyway I am wondering if what is going on in WI is likely to happen here when we negotiate the contracts for union employees for the town. A few questions for you Jim. What contracts are up for negotiations this year, and what are the dates the current contracts expire for those? Who negotiates for the town, and is the town taking the position in those negotiations that health care benefits have got to change?Can't think of a namehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16261205148662206759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517736040315331529.post-47860947236215053312011-02-22T08:35:10.662-05:002011-02-22T08:35:10.662-05:00Unfunded health insurance costs are going to kill ...Unfunded health insurance costs are going to kill this country. WI unions are screaming aobut breaking unions. Maybe it is time for that to happen if the union members think they are above being impacted by the recession the rest of us are facing. Paying union dues does not mean you get to ignore reality.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00801606066087905980noreply@blogger.com