Are you serious tell me one private firm that you contribute 70 % of your pay to retirement. I work for the corrections dept for many years. After my retirement cont. is taken social sec. is taken medicade plus fed tax state tax and local tax im not that well off. its funny when I started for the county many years ago i did envy my friends in private bus i.e. gm. sparrows point, western ele. crown cork and seal etc for the amount of money they were paid compared to myself. they had free health care didnt have to contribute to retirement but now that thier unions drove thier pay so high that a lot of them have gone bankrupt left state or country they are pissed now at those in public serv. who for years were way behind them in pay. they werent bitching then. whats up.

that is not what I said. Read it again.

Scott Walker.

scott walker's a republican, do you really think anything republican will happen in baltimore county or maryland, not.

It shouldn't require a (these days generally looney) Republican to implement something common sense like doing away with gravy train pensions.

John T said we need "real leaders" and I gave one name that we can look at his record to judge. I never made the claim a leader could be elected in Martyland. They won't be.

Looney is not limited to Republicans Darth. Not be a long shot. To even says so is looney! Loon!

well there was one similar to scott walker elected in balto. co., after the people elected him they found out they should not because they hated it. major portions of services were shut down or scaled back including almost a third of the libraries. you must be careful what you ask for.

fred, Walker is a Governor, not a county exec. Walker has done well for Wisconsin and that is why he was not recalled. He won the recall with MORE votes than he won in the first election because the taxpayers saw what was being accomplished. No layoff, schools have MORE money and more state union workers have MORE money since they have stopped paying the forced dues. About 40% of the members stopped being extorted by the union thugs.

joe although that may be true in Wisconsin, when roger hayden was elected in baltimore county he cut all areas or eliminated them. the county citizens hated it and he was shown the door. as i said be careful what you ask for.

Scott Walker got his ass handed to him today by the Courts.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/wisconsin-collective-bargaining-law_n_1885601.html

Obama was born to a Muslim and that is passed to the offspring in Islam. He was raised by Muslims and attended Koranic classes in an Islamic school.

.......and Elvis is still alive and 9/11 was a Government plot. Only in JoeBlob's world.....

Steve, if you cannot dispute the factual comment then STFUAH!

It 's not factual. Nothing you post is. You just Parrot the Faux News talking points and blindly accept them as factual. Stalin would love easily duped people like yourself..

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/aug/26/franklin-graham/graham-said-seed-islam-passes-through-father-obama/

Politifact parroting does not deny the facts.

http://www.islam101.com/dawah/newBorn.htm
The Prophet (PBUH) reported that Allah said, "I created my servants in the right religion but devils made them go astray". The Prophet (PBUH) also said, "Each child is born in a state of "Fitrah", then his parents make him a Jew, Christian or a Zoroastrian, the way an animal gives birth to a normal offspring. Have you noticed any that were born mutilated?" (Collected by Al-Bukhaaree and Muslim).

Get a clue you racist glass house living idiot.

The Prophet Muhammad said, "No babe is born but upon Fitra (as a Muslim). It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a Polytheist." (Sahih Muslim, Book 033, Number 6426)

Steve you flaming idiot, are children born to Jews also Jews or are they Catholic? Are children born to Catholics Jews Muslims or Catholics?

you need to educate yourself and stop being an ass.

Neither of President Obama's parents were Muslim.

Get it?

And from your own parrot post you seem to never read more than the first words of "It's true that in Muslim cultures, the children of Muslims are generally assumed to be Muslim themselves, according to our research. But all of the sources we looked at described the Islamic faith as not belonging to any particular race, ethnicity or nation. Most of the sources said that whether one truly is a Muslim or not depends on the belief in Muslim teaching and the following of its practices, not whether one is born into the faith."

Read the series by Pipes who is an expert, with an open but for you, small mind.
He was born and named as a Muslim not a Christian.
PIPES: ‘His middle name is Hussein’
Muslims believe Obama is one of them

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/12/his-middle-name-is-hussein/

Your ignorance Steve is only exceeded by your idiocy. Obama wrote about his Muslim father and step father in his books. They may have not been "practicing" Muslims but Muslims none the less.

"By all accounts, Obama's Kenyan father was an atheist more interested in economics and government than religion. And the senior Obama had little influence on the future president because he left his American wife, Ann Dunham, shortly after Obama's birth in 1961."

"Most remarkably, his half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, has stated: “My whole family was Muslim.” Her whole family, obviously, includes her half-brother, Barack."

"In June 2006, President Obama related how, after a long religious evolution, he “was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street in the Southside of Chicago one day and affirm my Christian faith” with an altar call. But when his pastor at Trinity United, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was asked (by author Edward Klein in “The Amateur,” Page 40), “Did you convert Obama from Islam to Christianity?” Mr. Wright finessed the question, whether out of ignorance or discretion, replying enigmatically: “That’s hard to tell.” Note that he did not reject out of hand the idea that Mr. Obama had been a Muslim.

Mr. Obama’s 30-year-old half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, who met him twice, told an interviewer in March 2009, “He may be behaving differently due to the position he is in, but on the inside, Barack Obama is Muslim.”

"Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, has said Hussein is a Muslim name. Muslim discussions of Mr. Obama sometimes mention his middle name as a code, with no further comment needed. A conversation in Beirut, quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, captures the puzzlement. “He has to be good for Arabs because he is a Muslim,” observed a grocer. “He’s not a Muslim, he’s a Christian,” replied a customer. No, said the grocer, “He can’t be a Christian. His middle name is Hussein.” The name is proof positive."

Libidiot Steve, you stick with Politifact and I will stick to his own family.

(1) Islam is a patrilineal religion: In Islam, the father passes his faith to the children, and when a Muslim man has children with a non-Muslim woman, Islam considers those children Muslim. Mr. Obama’s grandfather and father having been Muslims — the extent of their piety matters not at all — means that in Muslim eyes, Mr. Obama was born a Muslim.

(2) Arabic forenames based on the H-S-N trilateral root: All such names (Husayn or Hussein, Hasan, Hassan, Hassanein, Ahsan and others) are exclusively bestowed on Muslim babies. (The same goes for names based on the H-M-D root.) Mr. Obama’s middle name, Hussein, explicitly proclaims him born a Muslim.

(3) Registered as Muslim at SD Katolik Santo Fransiskus Asisi: Mr. Obama was registered at a Catholic school in Jakarta as “Barry Soetoro.” A surviving document correctly lists him as born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961. In addition, it lists him as having Indonesian nationality and Muslim religion.

(4) Registered as Muslim at SD Besuki: Although Besuki (also known as SDN 1 Menteng) is a public school, Mr. Obama curiously refers to it in “The Audacity of Hope” (Page 154) as “the Muslim school” he attended in Jakarta. Its records have not survived, but several journalists (Haroon Siddiqui of the Toronto Star, Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times and David Maraniss of The Washington Post) all have confirmed that there, too, he was registered as a Muslim.

tell us who the politicians are that don't need money and campaign workers to get elected.

KAG, well that makes you a lazy bum. Not everybody thinks like you do. Most people are proud of what they do, and strive to do a good job. It's just basic human nature.

Bart. Have you had a opportunity to deal with any government agency? Or are you a member?

Get rid of Homan and save millions. Have Kamenetz give up his sweet heart pension deal along with his buddies and then you'll be talking. Did I mention the pension deal for the chief?

At the rate their going raiding the pension fund, there won't be any money left.

Gotta go with Buzz on this one. KK, Gardina and many others have worked the system to get more than their fair share. They're disgusting.

Calm Down. Why should they be getting COLA's when the most of the private sector has been without for the past 5 years. What part of the government are you working in?

TotC: What rock are you living under. The pensions for government workers are some of the best in the workforce. The salary and benefits for these workers have outpaced the private sector, and that's a good thing only if you are a government worker, which from the sounds of it, you are.