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if you're a relatively well-off Republican politico.
But forcing workers to live on the edge of financial disaster would be called something else by most of us.
Instead of actually doing something to attack outrageous health care costs, just force the workers to pay more of those costs. Problem solved, Republican-style.
Terry is no doubt aware of the Kohler contract in Wisconsin, in which new hires are to be paid 35 percent less than union wages -- the union was forced to agree to this two-tier system because Kohler management announced they were going to uproot their machinery and move to Mexico if the union didn't cave to owners' demands.
I suppose Terry's ideal would be paying minimum wage (no benefits) to any and all new hires. Excepting himself, of course. He deserves all kinds of perks because he's the guv, after all. I really don't understand how this guy got back into office, I really don't. We got rid of him once, ferpetesake.
Iowa Public Radio just ran a sound bite of Terry saying that the "biggest drivers of the budget are school aid, Medicaid and state employee salaries."
Watch out kids, watch out poor people, Terry is back!!!
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The same Iowa Public Radio news segment just ran a sound bite of Steve King R-IA-05 touting his valiant struggle against providing health care for people -- in his new position on the national health care committee, he plans to promote "self-care that will allow people to retain their liberty and their freedom." That was an actual sound bite, those were his exact words, that is a verbatim quote.
God yes, I'd hate to have an emergency appendectomy interfere with my liberty and freedom.
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