The “rich” are the ones who caused the financial crisis and the pension crisis. After giving them trillions of dollars (as thanks for destroying our economy, I guess), and then extending tax cuts so the speculators on Wall Street can use all their newfound money (courtesy of the taxpayers) to ramp up commodities prices around the world…yeah, public employees are going to fight when the bill for Wall Street’s party comes due, and it’s handed to them.[/quote]
CAR: Public employees are going to fight whom, exactly? The so-called “rich”? How does that work? They’re PUBLIC sector, not PRIVATE sector unions; they’re paid for by the taxpayers.
This isn’t the UAW, or IBEW, or AFL-CIO going up against GM or Ford or U.S. Steel for a larger share of the profits; this is SEIU, or CCPOA going for more taxpayer dollars.
The complete illogicality of this outdated and defunct “class warfare” argument seems to have escaped most people. This isn’t rich versus the middle-class, it is politicians rewarding union supporters for their voter with unaffordable benefits packages that will explode long after those same politicians are long gone.
