{"id":5911,"date":"2011-02-09T23:05:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T06:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2011-02-10T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:32:35","slug":"union-boss-john-gage-calls-those-who-believe-in-cutting-spending-mentally-retarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=5911","title":{"rendered":"Union Boss John Gage Calls Those Who Believe in Cutting Spending &#8220;Mentally Retarded&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yr54UdXPpsA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This guy is in charge of the union for federal employees. The employees who our taxes pay wages and benefits for.  And because they are unionized can likely never be fired for incompetence like private sector, non-union workers.  The same employees who feel they are entitled to life-long (likely under-funded) pensions and benefits paid for by&#8230;hmmm&#8230;.who exactly?<\/p>\n<p>And what could they possibly have to go on strike about? Are the coal mines they are working in unsafe? Are they exposed to toxic chemicals or fires or armed suspects as they sit behind their desks from 9-5? Forced child labor maybe? No. Nothing like that. They marched in Washington this week to protest the proposed freeze on federal wage spending. So basically because they probably won&#8217;t get an annual pay increase and have to pay a slightly higher portion of their health insurance premium. A pretty idiotic reason to strike when the nation has a 14 TRILLION dollar deficit and almost 10% unemployment. Feel free to quit guys and gals. Pretty sure there are plenty of people who would be happy to take your place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.usdebtclock.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I really hope this putz gets the same media tongue-lashing that Britney Spears got when she said &#8220;retarded&#8221; in some article. Because you know with 100% certainty that if a Republican or a company CEO said this, all of PC-hell would rain down on him and it would be ad nauseum streaming headline news on CNN and MSNBC and make the front page of the New York Times. <\/p>\n<p>Unions = entitled jackasses. Union Bosses &#8211; corrupt jackasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy is in charge of the union for federal employees. The employees who our taxes pay wages and benefits for. And because they are unionized can likely never be fired for incompetence like private sector, non-union workers. The same employees who feel they are entitled to life-long (likely under-funded) pensions and benefits paid for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}