Let's pretend that labor is the culprit and reason our budgets are short
The Shameful Attack on Public Employees - Robert Reich
Reich is not an amateur self-styled political partisan who got his ideas and talking points from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow.
When it comes to labor issues, he is one of those who knows more than most what he is talking about. And as a public employee whose pay never compared to private sector employment equal to my GI-Bill-obtained education, I agree with Reich, am offended by the assertions of conservatives who vilify public employees and challenge the honesty and integrity of those who assume they can bamboozle a gullible public.
The state and federal governments led by our political heroes formally require education to many would-be public employees How is it that you are required education beyond high school in order to get hired, but then are not paid on a par with your college classmates who opted for the private sector?
Would it not make better sense to vilify those private sector equivalents and attack their pay scale and benefits packages? Certainly there would be more money involved.
And how does what I earn and look forward to in pension benefits compare to my peers of equal education who stayed in the private sector?
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Then of course as we are doing in Washington State where politicians are responding to our budget shortfall by vilifying public employees, our legislators have required that we take unpaid leaves via a furlough process every month. That combined unpaid leave amounts to a comparative - drop in the bucket in terms of conservation of budget assets. In fact in many cases, authorized overtime to meet emergent needs in many cases offsets the saving from furlough days. The politicians did not require such sacrifices for themselves or any other factored segment of the state economy and there is no argument that justifies the wisdom of asking public employees to accept a pay reduction month after month while asking nothing of the rest of the tax base.
It was and remains the politics of cowardice.
It does not matter how many times they read the Constitution out loud in Congress in front of God and the American public. Politicians backed by capitalist corporate welfare lobbies (who are unabashedly and blatantly anti-labor) are not being honest in message ... ... and are only pretending to act in behalf of the common good of the workers and consumers in this country.
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