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Like any totalitarian State, the unions yell scream, intimidate and harass those who fight for responsible government policies.
San Jose has a government pension system, like most systems in California that will force the City into bankruptcy in the future. This has caused legitimate people to suggest, and pay for, a ballot measure that would save the pension plan and protect the financial health of the city government.
Unions hate having real people getting involved in "their" pension scam.
"Michael Moritz, one of Silicon Valleys’ most successful venture capitalists, keeps a low profile. An early backer of Yahoo and Google, Moritz avoids the press, though he was himself once a journalist. You never see him at industry conferences. While he has given money to President Obama and a few other politicians of both parties, he has no discernible political ambitions.
But he does apparently feel strongly about the need to change the public employee pension system in San Francisco and his recent decision to contribute $245,000 to that cause has provoked a furious counterattack by public employee unions. Deriding Moritz as a billionaire speculator, a group of unions organized a noisy protest last week in front of his San Francisco home.
The demonstration followed the unions’ vituperative denunciation of an accountant named Craig Weber, who made the mistake of endorsing a pension overhaul while serving on a civil grand jury investigating the issue. Though Weber (no relation) had cleared his action with the grand jurys presiding judge and the city attorney, union leaders have demanded a criminal investigation."
This is why all unions need to be voluntary. Any organization based on extortion, pay us a fee or you are not allowed to work, should not be protected by government, it should be prosecuted.
In this instance the unions prefer the City of San Francisco Go belly up then allow an affordable pension plan. Shame on us for allowing this.
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San Jose has a government pension system, like most systems in California that will force the City into bankruptcy in the future. This has caused legitimate people to suggest, and pay for, a ballot measure that would save the pension plan and protect the financial health of the city government.
Unions hate having real people getting involved in "their" pension scam.
"Michael Moritz, one of Silicon Valleys’ most successful venture capitalists, keeps a low profile. An early backer of Yahoo and Google, Moritz avoids the press, though he was himself once a journalist. You never see him at industry conferences. While he has given money to President Obama and a few other politicians of both parties, he has no discernible political ambitions.
But he does apparently feel strongly about the need to change the public employee pension system in San Francisco and his recent decision to contribute $245,000 to that cause has provoked a furious counterattack by public employee unions. Deriding Moritz as a billionaire speculator, a group of unions organized a noisy protest last week in front of his San Francisco home.
The demonstration followed the unions’ vituperative denunciation of an accountant named Craig Weber, who made the mistake of endorsing a pension overhaul while serving on a civil grand jury investigating the issue. Though Weber (no relation) had cleared his action with the grand jurys presiding judge and the city attorney, union leaders have demanded a criminal investigation."
This is why all unions need to be voluntary. Any organization based on extortion, pay us a fee or you are not allowed to work, should not be protected by government, it should be prosecuted.
In this instance the unions prefer the City of San Francisco Go belly up then allow an affordable pension plan. Shame on us for allowing this.
More...