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Blue Idaho

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12. Poor SOBs...

Reply to NWCorona (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 04:45 PM

Jan 2017

The current workers think that by fucking over current retirees they will be saving their own necks. By the time they retire they will get squat and no one will give a shit. They will have sold their souls and they won't even get 30 pieces of silver in the bargain.

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Iron Workers pension cuts approved; retirees to get smaller checks [View all] NWCorona Jan 2017 OP

Impoverishing those who came before. OnlinePoker Jan 2017 #1

It's the worst kind of greed. dchill Jan 2017 #2

Just the start. Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #3

Actually, it's been going on for a while.... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #10

This started in the mid Seventies. Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #11

I guess they don't plan cloudbase Jan 2017 #4

Per article, a major reason for this is shrinking union membership groundloop Jan 2017 #5

Glad to send this to Greatest. nt raccoon Jan 2017 #6

This is why union people vote for Trump hollowdweller Jan 2017 #7

I am sure Trump will get right on that... anneboleyn Jan 2017 #13

No but we should hollowdweller Jan 2017 #15

Ruh-roh Shaggy, you just got Trump-chumped. Drahthaardogs Jan 2017 #8

You can never have enough Scooby-Doo references lol! Nt NWCorona Jan 2017 #9

Poor SOBs... Blue Idaho Jan 2017 #12

I thought that Trump was going to fix all of this? Sigh. Sarcasm, in case it is at all ambiguous. anneboleyn Jan 2017 #14