Nearly Half of Americans Are ‘Financially Fragile’

Wall Street Journal Blogs ^ | May 25, 2011 | Phil Izzo

[Gene Eric]

I know where you’re coming. Unfortunately, you’re wasting your time on others that don’t.

We’re target #1 in the eyes of the Commies.

[RFEngineer]

“But I doubt we’ve heard the last from a person who uses a keyboard to bully other people anonymously.”

We’re all here as long as we’re allowed to be. However, I’m not in any bullying you or other people.

[Flying Circus]

You sound really insecure about the work you are doing. Understandably so if you never have had to compete in the private labor market.

To even suggest that somehow the Obama administration is sowing disdain for government workers and their pensions is the height of ridiculous. Government workers are the Obama administrations natural constituency and the group who have benefited most by the dramatic increase in federal expenditures. No, it is not the Obama administration raising disdain for government workers compensation and benefits.

It is a natural reaction of the rest of us getting a peek at the extravagant pensions the political class have promised to their quislings out of our tax dollars. Traditionally we’ve taken for granted that public workers get job security and a nice pension for accepting smaller salaries. Private sector workers are struggling with job security, increasing competition from foreign labor and now a political class salivating at the chance to grab our meager 401k and IRA savings because we are ‘rich’ so they can fund even more bureaucratic growth. For public workers get the trifecta of higher salary at the same skill level, gold plated pensions (jobs like teachers, lifeguards, police officers and firefighters getting pensions with an estimated $1.3M lifetime value), and bulletproof job security on the backs of those private sector workers is a deep and grave injustice.

[Reddy]

ITA with your third paragraph.

I disagree with the second paragraph. Zero is using Alinsky tactics to demonize gov workers with one hand and taking their pensions with the other. He’s making it APPEAR he cares about fed workers, etc. Just like everything else he does- the people of this country, no matter who they are, are mere fodder for his utopian idea of a socialist nation.

As for your first paragraph, nope. Have always worked in the private sector.