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Another interesting one from Ann Coulter.
The real class warfare in this country isnt rich vs. poor, its government employees vs. we, the taxpayers, who pay their salaries.
Working for the government is supposed to be a trade-off: You cant be fired and dont have to exert yourself, but you will receive smaller remuneration than in the private sector, where layoffs are common (especially in the Obama economy!). Instead, government jobs are safe, secure, pressure-free and now, amazingly lucrative!
Whether its in Wisconsin, Illinois, California or the nations capital, todays public sector workers expect to do little or no work (Im not counting partying in Las Vegas as work), and then be lavishly compensated. Often, the only heavy lifting they do all week is picking up their paychecks.
When government employees mobbed the state capitol in Wisconsin last year, the upside was: They got to bully people. The downside: Voters finally found out what these public servants were being paid.
Their compensation included not only straight salary, but also lavish overtime benefits, pensions, health care plans, sick days and vacation time (most of which they spent protesting).
The unions thought they could fight back against Gov. Scott Walkers tiny rollbacks without anyone finding out the details. Most people saw what public employees were getting and assumed it was a misprint.
Two years ago, seven bus drivers in Madison, Wis., made more than $100,000 a year. A few years before that, we found out that the city manager of little Bell, Calif. per capita annual income $24,800 was making $787,637, or including benefits: $1.5 million a year. The chief of police was getting $457,000 a year $770,046 counting benefits making him the first chief of police to commit highway robbery on the job. The assistant city manager was taking home $376,288 per year, for a total compensation package of $845,960.
All were Democrats, the party of big government.
Speaking of which whatever happened to that investigation Gov. Jerry Brown was launching into these thieving public servants drawing million-dollar pensions from California taxpayers? The Bell scandal broke during the California gubernatorial race between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown, who was then state attorney general. Brown vowed a no-holds-barred inquiry...
Read more: Sacrificial scams | The Daily Caller
The real class warfare in this country isnt rich vs. poor, its government employees vs. we, the taxpayers, who pay their salaries.
Working for the government is supposed to be a trade-off: You cant be fired and dont have to exert yourself, but you will receive smaller remuneration than in the private sector, where layoffs are common (especially in the Obama economy!). Instead, government jobs are safe, secure, pressure-free and now, amazingly lucrative!
Whether its in Wisconsin, Illinois, California or the nations capital, todays public sector workers expect to do little or no work (Im not counting partying in Las Vegas as work), and then be lavishly compensated. Often, the only heavy lifting they do all week is picking up their paychecks.
When government employees mobbed the state capitol in Wisconsin last year, the upside was: They got to bully people. The downside: Voters finally found out what these public servants were being paid.
Their compensation included not only straight salary, but also lavish overtime benefits, pensions, health care plans, sick days and vacation time (most of which they spent protesting).
The unions thought they could fight back against Gov. Scott Walkers tiny rollbacks without anyone finding out the details. Most people saw what public employees were getting and assumed it was a misprint.
Two years ago, seven bus drivers in Madison, Wis., made more than $100,000 a year. A few years before that, we found out that the city manager of little Bell, Calif. per capita annual income $24,800 was making $787,637, or including benefits: $1.5 million a year. The chief of police was getting $457,000 a year $770,046 counting benefits making him the first chief of police to commit highway robbery on the job. The assistant city manager was taking home $376,288 per year, for a total compensation package of $845,960.
All were Democrats, the party of big government.
Speaking of which whatever happened to that investigation Gov. Jerry Brown was launching into these thieving public servants drawing million-dollar pensions from California taxpayers? The Bell scandal broke during the California gubernatorial race between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown, who was then state attorney general. Brown vowed a no-holds-barred inquiry...
Read more: Sacrificial scams | The Daily Caller