A New One To Consider

WhatMeWorry?
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A while back we wondered the following:

If he is given another wide open shot at the brass ring, how far might Gordon Campbell go this time around.....

Will he sell off even more Public Assets?

Will he shred every last strand left in the Social Safety Net?

Will he rip up more Contracts and Outsource Everything?

Will he completely demonize Trade Unions and Institute a Golden-Age Training-Wage where the kid willingly pays the employer to exploit her?

Of course, it is not outside the realm of possiblity that the answer to all of the above would be yes.

But then along came a little announcement from United Airlines earlier this week that should scare the heck out of everybody that works for a living.

Because, essentially United told everybody working for them to go to hell while simultaneously squealing for the U.S. government to bail them out:

"A federal bankruptcy judge approved United Airlines' plan to terminate its employees' pension plans Tuesday, clearing the way for the largest corporate-pension default in American history.

The ruling, which carries broad implications for U.S. airlines and their workers, shifts responsibility for United's four defined-benefit plans to the government's pension agency."

Which got me to thinking that a re-elected Mr. Campbell might also wish to consider allowing the MultiNats to opt-out of their pension obligations to keep them fat and happy when the commodity markets inevitably go South in, oh say, '07.

Seem far-fetched?

Sure.

But then again, it just might be too good to pass up, especially when you factor in the extra bonus that it would be an act of flim-flammery so brazen that it just might send Mr. Campbell straight to the Neandercon Hall of Fame*.


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*Or, at the very least, it would likely garner him an invitation to one of Grover Norquist's monthly bathtub government strangling sessions.

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