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Joel Walbert's avatar

'...By offering ten weeks of unemployment benefits to strikers—public and private alike...'

This is economic suicide. Subsidize something and you always get more of it and will surely cause a massive debt spiral eventually that I am can safely assume ya'll don't need.

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Brian D. O’Leary's avatar

It’s truly baffling.

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Joel Walbert's avatar

yea whoever came up with this just might not be all there upstairs.

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Brian D. O’Leary's avatar

How it even got to a vote may be more troubling than its passage.

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Joel Walbert's avatar

i can only imagine the deal-cutting treachery behind the scenes

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Brian D. O’Leary's avatar

In Oregon politics, in the last 35 years or more, it’s generally two wings of the same bird of prey at work.

Large-scale institutional cowardice.

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Joel Walbert's avatar

I honestly can't say I ever knew much about the goings on in Oregon, but ever since the Evergreen / Bret Weinstein incident, its seems Oregon makes the headlines a few times a year over some utter nonsense.

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