{"id":6174,"date":"2009-11-10T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6174"},"modified":"2009-11-09T23:24:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T04:24:44","slug":"philly-transit-union-members-fear-socialized-healthcare-may-cost-them-their-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6174","title":{"rendered":"Union Members Fear Socialized Healthcare May Cost Them Their Pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So let&#8217;s strike! &#8230;.because there&#8217;s no one else that can drive a bus or a car on tracks.<\/p>\n<p>[Curly Stooge] Ironic, aint it? [end Curly Stooge]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Pennsylvania&#8217;s Democratic Governor Edward] Rendell and [U.S. Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pa.] had announced a tentative agreement  late Friday, but it fell apart Saturday over the union&#8217;s call for an independent  audit of the pension fund and assurance that members would not be affected if the  company&#8217;s costs increased with possible passage of a national health reform  plan. [in other words they want the same deal as Congress!-JR]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, let me get this straight. Union workers in Pennsylvania are fearful that national health care &#8220;reform&#8221;, brought to to us by the gerbils they almost assuredly voted for, could cost them their pension? So they strike&#8230;the week unemployment tops ten per cent?<\/p>\n<p>The stupid is so thick you can taste it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So let&#8217;s strike! &#8230;.because there&#8217;s no one else that can drive a bus or a car on tracks. [Curly Stooge] Ironic, aint it? [end Curly Stooge] [Pennsylvania&#8217;s Democratic Governor Edward] Rendell and [U.S. Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pa.] had announced a tentative agreement late Friday, but it fell apart Saturday over the union&#8217;s call for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,66,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-health-care","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6174"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}