Posted on 03/15/2010 2:57:55 AM PDT by Scanian
Lately, there's been much talk about the generous compensation of government workers. This is understandable after a long recession in which many private-sector workers got laid off or took cuts in compensation levels. As USA Today reminds us, federal pay has surpassed private-sector wages. Since private-sector workers pay the taxes that fund government workers' wages, conflict exists.
Marxists have long stated that class conflict exists between workers and the owners of capital. Marx and his followers were wrong about that. Class conflict exists between taxpayers and tax-consumers. As the nearly forgotten nineteenth-century politician John C. Calhoun stated:
"The necessary result, then, of the unequal fiscal action of the government is, to divide the community into two great classes; one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes, and, of course, bear exclusively the burthen of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds, through disbursements, and who are, in fact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, to divide it into taxpayers and tax-consumers."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Reminding everyone what the big talker said;
01/10/09: President-Elect Obama’s Weekly Address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDln2f0GvQ&feature=player_embedded
At 2 minutes;
Obama “Our plan will likely save or create three to four million jobs, Ninety percent of these jobs will be created in the private sector – the remaining 10 percent are mainly public sector jobs we save, like the teachers, police officers, firefighters and others who provide vital services in our communities.”
If most democrats had a brain, their heads would explode trying to rationalize their actions.
If the government creates jobs in the private sector, then those jobs are controlled by and linked to the government - one way or another.
Rene Stulz, a finance professor at The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio makes over $500,000 per year. Not bad for someone that teaches 1 class per year and has a thriving consulting company that brings in an additional $500k per year (in violation of state laws governing consulting). And he recently received an exemption on his state retirement package that allows him to earn more than anyone in the state of Ohio on retirement and exceed the state limit.
What aren’t people up in arms about this? And Ohio wonders why it is in terrible financial condition!
Caution: the university hides his salary to avoid blowback. Part of it is available through open records. The other part is hidden in the provost’s budget which is like a huge slush fund.
I have heard this from 3 different professors that worked or are currently working at OSU.
A true scandal.
Hard to get past that lie. It is RINOs like Mitt and Bennett that are the very reason we are in the class conflict we have now.
As for the article: The course we are on is unsustainable.
The private class will go looking for Galt’s Gulch and there will be further economic collapse. There will be a political revolution in the voting booth and we will have a Reagan-like recovery. We will continue moving to full-blown communism. Or...?
By the way...The author suggests that tax-consumers should not be allowed to vote. That would likely include any parent with a child in government K-12 school or (possibly) in any state college or university.
“Shut up and work, serfs!”
For sure. I'll find a way to liv eon far less money. Or I'll find a way to go cash only. Either way, I won't play this game. I won't fund this nightmare system. Possibly, I'll go to Costa Rica or something. Though, I really hate leaving the US, so it'd have to get really bad for me to do that.
It ain’t “generous”
To pay a fully funded
Retirement plan.
It is a contract,
Between long term employees,
And their employer.
Federal workers
Save for their retirement
From the first day on.
If other workers
Saved at twenty years old
They’d have a lot, too.
Two years ago my husband and I spent 6 months in Coast Rica. We attended language school and lived with Costa Rican families. We were there during the contentious TLC vote to approve the free trade agreement with the U.S.
I speak Spanish on the advanced level and most of my day was spent reading and discussing newspaper editorials with my teachers.
Costa Rica is evenly split between those who support free market solutions and the hard core socialists/Marxists. I was shocked to read the rhetoric by the Marxists in the advertisements and editorials against the TLC. Their arguments were pure Marxist dialectics. In the end the TLC was passed but very narrowly.
Essentially, all those who are tax consumers and government employees of any kind voted against the TLC. Those who were tax payers and wealth creators voted for for free trade. They too, have red and blue “states”.
Anyone who buys property in Costa Rica or invests in any type of business there is **foolish**! The nation could **easily** slip into a Chavez-type of country in any election. And,...No one should be fooled by the pleasant manners of the Costa Rican. A corrupt third world culture bubbles under that nice and polite smile. Yes, it is still a lovely country to visit, but ( my advice) be a renter only.
Exactly my fears. Probably the same for Belize. There really is no where left to run, is there?
It is time that we consistently used the words that fit: Marxist, communist, fascist.
You won’t be alone in Costa Rica, or Uruguay, or Brazil, or Guadlajara.
No where left to run. We have to stay and fight the garbage in our white house.
Evidently, he is as valuable to Ohio State as their football coach.
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