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"Nonetheless, a rising chorus of commentators charge that public sector workers are overpaid relative to employees in comparable positions in the private sector. The fact that this claim is demonstrably false appears not to matter. Instead, the attacks are escalating. The most recent proposal gaining traction is to write new laws that would allow states to declare bankruptcy. This would let them rip up contracts with current public sector employees and walk away from their pension fund obligations. Only by declaring bankruptcy, Republican luminaries Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich argued in the Los Angeles Times, will states be able to “reform their bloated, broken and underfunded pension systems for current and future workers.”"
"[Cesar] Chavez became infatuated with so-called Silva Mind Control
meditation and what he believed was its power to influence events and
people."
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"Challenges to his authority, real or imagined, would prompt purges or
mandates that one potential rival or another relocate. He taped meetings
and dispatc...
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