“Irregardless” is just dumb. Lose it.
Then we can all get back to Apple, best or worst, or whatever.

This regretful notion that just because they work for the government, they are subject to your judgement in regards to their pay and benefits is absurd. They should be paid what the market demands, not what some Coal Cracker decides they should make. I shop many placers “with my money” and I am not entitled to lord over the employees and alter their benefit plans.

You plan to reduce government spending, by breaking the backs of fellow Americans is foolhardy at best. This is not the reason America is broke. America is broke because too many pay too little in taxes, STARTING WITH the corporations.

There is NOTHING and i MEAN NOTHING unreasonable about collective bargaining. There is nothing wrong with Americans (or any humans for that matter) fighting for/wishing for Better work environments, living wages, good benefits. We should ALL be clamoring for such things, and we should all damn well be willing to pay for them. Selfishness and greed are the only valid reasons I can see to argue against these things. Your arguement isn’t rational and it is formed from your

2 endless wars & out of control “defense” spending. Then lets tax the crap out of offshore holdings and accounts and remove loopholes for corporate tax dodgers. The US already HAS the LOWEST EFFECTIVE corporate tax rates in the western world. Where are the jobs these “Creators” are suppose to provide, I thought taxes were holding them back?

Instead of attacking other Americans (government workers) and arguing to take their collective bargaining and retirement away, how about we attack REAL problems.You want to cut some benefits and pay, how about Lawmakers first? start with their pensions and extravagant healthcare plan.

That’s called indentured servitude- nothing amazing about it and it’s a tragedy that it is allowed.

Dude, try employing a reading comprehension level above the 8th grade. There’s far broader and deeper issues raised in the article and comments above than some tired conservative meme aimed at those that topped out at a high-school education (and phoned it in mostly during those years, too…)

Just sayin’

Wonder why no one ever writes about the billion dollars Apple has paid out to developers because it’s iOS platform it’s created.

Yep, it’s those damn unions driving business away

Agree unions, particulary public sector unions, need to CHANGE.

Top of the list: More accountable to the taxpayers via voter referendums, salary and benefit negotiations, et al.

Year after year citizens pay salaries, lifelong medical and retirement benefits. The same citizens have little to no say in salary negotiations or performance reviews. Union HR is a prop and mostly non-effective and unaccountable to the taxpayer.

The party in power is in charge of contract negotiations. The salary paying taxpayer is powerless, sits on the sideline while union contracts are ratified, locked in really, four years or more.

This election cycle public sector unions will spend millions of taxpayer funded dollars to elect like minded candidates. I’m sure they don’t expect anything in return.

Agaign, taxpayers left on the sidelines read the headlines and expect the tax bill increase in the mail.

We should do better for the union worker and for those footing the bill.

May the Wisconsin shot heard around the world accelerate …

If Apple didn’t move their manufacturing outside of the U.S. in the 90′s, there would be no Apple today. Just Dell’s and HP’s.

Besides, Apple is a global company, it sell’s about half of their stuff outside the U.S., why shouldn’t Apple employ, directly or indirectly, people around the world?

For instance, the company I just retired from has wires going to every household in their service territory. They refused to look at providing internet service over those wires because they are too focused on reducing expenses. They refused to look at installing an electric vehicle charger in every garage, to be fed by their wires. They should be promoting (maybe even selling) electric cars and the chargers to go with them. The billing and service infrastructure is already in place for these efforts, but we were focused on reducing overhead, not expansion. This is not rare in American industry. How many corporations are run by accountants and lawyers?

Factory jobs and jobs that only require a high school deploy a are slowly disappearing.

Jurnos need to be educated, true, but they don’t pass the laws.

Right next to a middle school, on Indian land, they decided to build a gas station and a McDonalds. Within two months the buildings are rising, because the regulations don’t affect Indian Nation property. It’s all down to oppressive gummint regs.

someone protect us from the Department Of Defense.

No way that is going to happen and you know it.