Wow.

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Two women came by with 14 referendums that they wanted signatures for. I've never seen a larger load of crap, much of it wanted by the Governer, in my life. "Act to Protect Children": Increase teacher probation period from 2 years to 5 years. "Fiscal responsibility act": If the budget is not passed, the governor can just cut spending as he wishes. "Union Watchdog Law" Unions have to have inform all members of exact spending and seek their approval for every political ad. "Redistricting": Have the gerrymandering done by retired judges appointed by the governor.

The women obviously didn't know the referendums and had no emotional commitment to any of them; I think they were collecting for money.

BE CAREFUL and read these things. Oh, there was a great Lemon Law in there as part of the lead off--but why do we need more laws about cars? And I'm sure that the four pages of small print had a few surprises in them.

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Well, you can always go to the board meeting and raise hell, and if you fail and they fire you you can go work for Kmart. No such luck with the unions. If you're in a government related union job there's nowhere to go and asking questions will get you fired. Big difference. If you don't play with the teacher's union or the nurses union there aren't lot of other games in town. And if you're a customer of the services of say, the teacher's union, you can't even opt out (like going to Sears from Walmart). You pay anyway.

Did you know that if you get a job that is considered "barganing unit" you have to pay union dues whether you join or not? That's why we need to put some kind of controls in.