Posted on 05/16/2012 2:56:05 PM PDT by Syncro
May 16, 2012The real class warfare in this country isn't rich vs. poor, it's government employees vs. we, the taxpayers, who pay their salaries.
Working for the government is supposed to be a trade-off: You can't be fired and don't 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 it's in Wisconsin, Illinois, California or the nation's capital, today's public sector workers expect to do little or no work (I'm 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 Walker's 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.
By Obama's second year in the U.S. Senate, in 2006, Michelle Obama's compensation from "public service" was approximately $375,000 a year -- more than triple the average salary for a lawyer in the United States with 20 years' experience.
(America to the Obamas: "You two have sacrificed enough. Please retire and kick back a little!")
I'd like to get paid for writing books ~ I've certainly contributed enough chapters and clever soundbytes to lazybones like Ann to get a bit of the action.
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 Walker's tiny rollbacks without anyone finding out the details. Most people saw what public employees were getting and assumed it was a misprint.
Send her a bill.
In Chicago, the other guy does the kicking back.
Really? You show up to attack Coulter for stealing your thunder as a writer? You have nothing to say about the topic of the article? Unbelievable.
I'd like to see her out there baiting mosquitos in the swamps that surround our major cities.
Hard to argue with that. If she ain’t out baitin’ mosquitos, she ain’t worth nothin’.
Since the post was prominently touted as being by Ann, you had no reason to click on it as you despise her. You have even less reason to tell others how to behave. Since the owner of the site hasn't banned Coulter you're little diatribe is full of fury signifying nothing.
So much for some conservatives believing in free speech. You differ little from the liberals we despise.
Hear here! Anybody can post her dribble if they want! (And it is mostly drivel.)
The Muse Has Left The Building
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Along with personal attacks such as yours.
You and a few others don't like anything she writes anymore, in fact you never did ever since she wouldn't drop everything and bow down to your birther crank-i-ness.
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Why not ignore these threads and get out of the way of the adults?
Will all those NOT reciving a check from a government entity somewhere please raise their hands...?
Anyone?
Anyone at all?
Somewhere Karl Marx is laughing his *ss off.
Poor baby. You were a government worker and you don’t like criticism, tough. Federal workers are OVER COMPENSATED, no matter what job they have.
You guys are all sickos.
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