http://www.eastbayconservative.com/2008/11/17/nirvana-realized-oakland-at-837-cops/ Words from a Non-Leftist Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:57:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.eastbayconservative.com/2008/11/17/nirvana-realized-oakland-at-837-cops/comment-page-1/#comment-2180 SF2OAK Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:50:51 +0000 http://www.eastbayconservative.com/2008/11/17/nirvana-realized-oakland-at-837-cops/#comment-2180 I think BK might actually be helpful IF union contracts can be renegotiated. We are on this big merry go round where every bay area city's muni employees are tied to other city's bargaining (and it's all tied to big brother SF). It is clearly the salaries and benefits that are killing OAK, OK I should mention the dismal workproduct too. I think BK might actually be helpful IF union contracts can be renegotiated. We are on this big merry go round where every bay area city’s muni employees are tied to other city’s bargaining (and it’s all tied to big brother SF). It is clearly the salaries and benefits that are killing OAK, OK I should mention the dismal workproduct too.

]]> http://www.eastbayconservative.com/2008/11/17/nirvana-realized-oakland-at-837-cops/comment-page-1/#comment-2179 below580 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:29:45 +0000 http://www.eastbayconservative.com/2008/11/17/nirvana-realized-oakland-at-837-cops/#comment-2179 Couldn't agree with you more. I pay more taxes here than I did to live in Marin County and for what? To support more than my share of poor folks, some of whom turn out to be criminals. Oakland is filled with tax-payers who consistently vote against their own best interests. A good case in point are my neighbors, they owe more on their house than it is worth, but they both voted for Measure OO because they want to "help". If several analysts are correct and Measure OO forces Oakland into bankruptcy I wonder if they will still think they helped. My grandmother used to speak of people who didn't have the good sense God gave geese, she must have been speaking about Oaklanders. Couldn’t agree with you more. I pay more taxes here than I did to live in Marin County and for what? To support more than my share of poor folks, some of whom turn out to be criminals. Oakland is filled with tax-payers who consistently vote against their own best interests. A good case in point are my neighbors, they owe more on their house than it is worth, but they both voted for Measure OO because they want to “help”. If several analysts are correct and Measure OO forces Oakland into bankruptcy I wonder if they will still think they helped. My grandmother used to speak of people who didn’t have the good sense God gave geese, she must have been speaking about Oaklanders.

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