Posted on 07/29/2011 7:46:09 AM PDT by MichCapCon
An editorial in The Detroit News today calls on the state government’s employees to come to the bargaining table to offer concessions. It cites an analysis from University of Michigan economist Don Grimes that showed public-sector compensation increasing from $43,450 to $62,237 in the past decade, much higher than private-sector growth. But the state government compensation imbalance is worse than this.
The numbers between the two groups are disparate because Grimes uses compensation from all state government employment — all workers at state universities would be included, for instance, instead of just the 50,000 people that get their paychecks direct from the state of Michigan.
Including only state employees, the wage and benefits package for the average state worker cost $94,686 in fiscal year 2010. This is an increase from $57,622 in 1999.
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The public sector will go to war before they give up their private sector funded lifestyle.
Too many blood sucking parasites on a host can eventually drain enough to kill it.
Here on Free Republic a few days ago a bunch of government-employee members were pitching a fit about possible cuts to government salaries or retirement benefits. It seems like the fastest way to turn a conservative into a liberal is to put them on a public salary and threaten to take a dime away.
May they hit a brick wall.
Its just human nature.
You wean generations on welfare checks -- and it becomes an 'entitlement'. They expect it and they'll riot if it goes away.
People who have received promises that they'll get perpetual checks from the government money tree - without considering that a money tree doesn't exist - will riot when they're told that the money tree doesn't exist.
Reality is sometimes a cold bucket of water in the face - and I expect difficulty when it happens - but the sooner we face reality the better.
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