I had a friend here in Wisconsin whose husband is a teacher. When I (being from Chicago) mentioned that the union thugs had come here to win at any price, she walked out on the coffee group, calling me an “old bat”. I have never seen such vitriol in my life and the desire to win at any price.
Then I think of the taxes listed on my real estate tax bill and when I see that most of my $l7,000 real estate tax goes to public sector workers, I get furious! I can’t afford dental insurance, but she has it. I can’t afford vision insurance, but she has it, and she will have it the rest of her life!
With “friends” like her...
Wow! We're going to end up like Europe. I speak Spanish and visit a few Spanish blogs, and one of them had some details: the average European private-industry employee wage is 640 euros, while that of the "public servant" is 3000 euros.
In some cases the salary of an average "funcionario" (civil servant) is as much as 6000 euros per month. So that means that civil servants are earning between 5 amd 10x what an average Spaniard earns.
Guess Bambi wants to install that here, too. I heard today that the "stimulus" created 400,000 municipal and state jobs...and prevented or cost 1 million private industry jobs.
Since there is rarely any credible opposition to Rat rule in Chicago we don’t see the vitriol since they win in landslides.