If you're referring to them supporting "rethuglicans" then I would imagine you meant to say "follow the right wing views they put out regularly."
Once again, when is the last time KCRG has posted a story about a business ADDING 20 jobs? There are tons of businesses in the area hiring 20+ people this year. Where are the stories about those businesses?
Don't get me wrong - you hate to see anyone losing their job. But why bother even reporting a 20-employee layoff unless you're also reporting about every business who adds a minute amount of people?
Isn't it interesting that Yellowbook can lay off 20 employees and it makes front page headlines, but nobody writes articles when employers plan to add 20 employees? A business has to add an enormous amount of jobs before news will cover it.
I worked for a small business in recent years that was adding 20-40 employees per year and nobody was ever knocking on our door to put our story in the news.
Just a thought to ponder : If you're "taking count" so that you can attribute this stuff to politicians (which makes little sense anyway), KCRG isn't a very good source.
Presumably, you would. Since you obviously read it.
Point taken on soldiers versus cops. Trust me, I meant no disrespect as I come from a big military family myself.
Pay/benefits are all about attracting the best and most talented workers to your place of business. I get that part, and if I were looking for employment, I'd seek out a state job too. Why not? Free health care (I'm single), pension, decent salary. Like I said in response to the other person, if they raise my taxes and some of these guys are getting free healthcare, that doesn't seem right to me.
You're right, and some corporations do give free or very heavily discounted insurance. But corporations generally turn a profit, thus they are spending less than they're bringing in revenue. That is not the case with a state that is deficit-spending. I think a state that is deficit-spending should do what corporations have to do when they're taking in less money than they're spending: cut spending.
The alternative is that the state is forced to raise taxes to get rid of the deficit. Well I don't know how well that'd sit with me if they raise my taxes while some of their workers are getting free health insurance.
Makes perfect sense to me - sometimes the right thing and the "politically correct" thing are two different things. I don't get free health insurance, why am I paying taxes so my state employees can get it for free? State and government employees shouldn't get any benefits that any other standard worker doesn't get. Unless you're putting your life on the line in our military or police force, why does a state accountant deserve better benefits than an accountant who works for a corporation?
You'd be right, but I think Mid-Am has been under a rate freeze for several years and it doesn't end until 2014 due to all the merging they've done. That's why they're only charging 8 cents per kWh, not because they're good people but because they have actually been banned from raising their rates for something like 5 years now. They'll be going in for a rate case in 2014 I'm sure and it will probably be nasty for Mid-Am customers... they've built a lot of wind farms in the last several years and they're legally entitled to receive a return on every one of them. I could envision a 40-50% rate hike. They might be nice and spread it over two or three years but it'll happen.
You're on the right track there - they could make parking free but then we would have to pay higher taxes, and I bet you could probably guess that those same people would be on here whining and complaining about that, too. There is no pleasing most of the commenting users on these stories... they are here to whine, whether they know what the heck they're talking about or not.
I personally enjoy working downtown. Paying for parking sucks, but then again I am also receiving a paycheck down here too, so I can't complain too much. I'm not going to go search for another job over $45/month in parking fees. And watching these vacant spaces get renovated and filled with new businesses (mostly restaurants) is actually pretty cool. During the spring/summer, it seemed like every other month there was a new place to go check out. They're just recovering from a flood down here, but from my perspective it feels like everything is growing around me.
To each their own, I guess. It's just interesting to see so many people get downright offended by the idea that a business would want to locate here and people would want to work here. Again, I enjoy it here and I know many people around me who do as well.
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