REGARDLESS of where you stand on any pending legislation, there is no valid MORAL argument for allowing elected legislators who have been VOTED OUT of office by their constituents to vote on proposed legislation in a "lame duck" session. These people weren't "laid off", they were FIRED, and should at BEST, be given their "severance" pay, made to hand in their keys, and sent home, as in the "private sector". The exceptions should be for voluntary retirement or election to a higher office by their constituents.
If they ran for re-election, but lost, the legislative body to which they HAD belonged could then proceed, even if that body consisted of fewer members, OR the proposed legislation could be "tabled" until the swearing in of replacement members.
After all, if an employee is FIRED in the private sector, even the highest paid CEO's with "golden parachutes", they are escorted to the door by security and their security passes are immediately revoked.
Doesn't the public deserve the same security measures?
Someday, hopefully, the middle class will realize that it owes its existence to organized labor and that the only answer to stopping the downhill slide of the middle class is to rebuild the unions into a unified force able to withstand the assault by the corporate moguls like the Koch Brothers and their sinister organization A.L.E.C. So far A.L.E.C. is winning and so many middle class people are shooting themselves in the foot by criticizing unions.
You know nothing about unions and are just a hater looking for anything to back up your hater position. We all lose in Michigan because of haters like you!
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