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Post by agito on Feb 5, 2010 23:26:02 GMT -6
As much as thinking about anyone making 100k while i'm unemployed does tend to stoke some anger (which I then try to channel into job search energy) this crap goes to faryes you can make a case for public sector employees not deserving a 100k salary- but you can't make the case that lowering their pay is somehow going to make the rest of america richer. for instance rich lowry opines: Well that's pretty damn easy to figure out. In one scenario we have 6.9 million unemployed people. In another scenario, we have 7.0 million unemployed people. Guess which scenario I would prefer? and here: rich lowry is welcome to throw his support behind card check anytime. Something tells me he won't. The purpose of the article is to get a frustrated populace to focus on the have's that Rich Lowry considers expendable (government workers) rather then the "un-expendable" ones ( I'll give you a W and an S- guess! )
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 6, 2010 4:22:23 GMT -6
The purpose of the article is to get a frustrated populace to focus on the have's that Rich Lowry considers expendable (government workers) rather then the "un-expendable" ones ( I'll give you a W and an S- guess! ) Amen. Heard Glen Beck yapping about exactly the same thing tonight--whining about how all those public employees were sucking up all that money, while making no mention of the potential $23 TRILLION bail out of Wall Street by taxpayers. Back in the day they used to call that 'penny wise and pound foolish.'
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Post by waltc on Feb 6, 2010 16:58:53 GMT -6
Got to disagree.
Overpaid public workers are a drain period at least here in CA. In general they are paid far better than their private sector counter parts and have a benefits and pension plan that rivals that of Congress such as pensions that equal 90% of your ending pay after 30 years. Furthermore as a taxpayer I'm damned sick and tired of them acting and whining like they are entitled to life time employment since they are dependent on me and others like for their overpaid job.
They have no problem demanding for ever increasing taxes and fees of every kind imaginable so as to keep their precious asses employed. Screw them and the horse they rode in on. People aren't sheep to be sheered.
Hell the best paid jobs in my area are now state prison guard jobs. With OT you make a $100k a year with a HS diploma. After 30 years you can retire with a pension equal to 90% of your last year of pay and then come back as a consultant to the prison system and make almost twice as much(pension + consultant fees).
And people wonder why it costs us $50k a year to house a single prisoner(btw health care costs taxpayers $17k a year per prisoner).
Also you never see the news media rushing out and covering a layoff at a factory and doing human interest pieces but you see the bastards come out in force when some overpaid union goons at the local school district organize a whinefest about the possibility of them being laid off. Shit like this really hacks me off. As far as the news media goes I guess we in the private sector are just dirt.
And to run salt into our wound most of the stimulus money went to keep state workers employed, not to help anyone in the private sector.
F**k this favoritism.
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