Posted on 03/01/2011 10:24:24 AM PST by suspects
Even the traditionally liberal Washington Post has figured it out. Yesterday’s headline read: “Ohio, Wisconsin shine spotlight on new union battle: Government workers vs. taxpayers.”
Not “middle-class vs. wealthy” or “struggling school teachers vs. billionaire Koch brothers.” No, the real fight is between public servants and the public they allegedly serve. The sentimental story line that unions are “friends of the workin’ man” is unraveling.
Typical Americans, including the blue-collar brand, aren’t fans of threats and violence coming from government union mobs. In Wisconsin, it’s Democratic state Rep. Gordon Hintz telling GOP Rep. Michelle Litjens, “You are [expletive] dead” after she voted for Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
Here in Massachusetts, it’s Gov. Deval Patrick’s director of the Department of Labor: “Make no mistake about it,” George Noel said Saturday, “we are at war!”
And if the tax-getters are at war, who are they at war with? Tax-payers, obviously.
Liberals trying to play the “class warfare” card in Wisconsin have always been wrong on the facts. Public sector employees in Milwaukee are like their counterparts across America — they get paid more than most of their neighbors. Their average teacher’s salary is $56,500, while the average household income — the entire household — is $42,950.
It’s the same here in Massachusetts, where the median household income is $65,000, while the average Boston teacher makes $80,000 — plus benefits. Those benefits bring the total to well more than $100,000 in compensation a year, including great health care and a “defined benefit” pension that the average Bay State family can only dream about.
Six-figure salaries and benefits...and these government union workers are declaring war on us? They should be buying us drinks and offering back rubs.
I believe it’s because they just don’t get it. Protected, unionized government workers still don’t grasp...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
The Bosaton Herals has this? What kind of newspaper is that? I dont recall if they are lib media or not.
More conservative than the globe.
“Six-figure salaries and benefits...and these government union workers are declaring war on us? They should be buying us drinks and offering back rubs.”
Hence those back rubs should come with happy endings according to Hinz.
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