Posted on 02/25/2011 7:47:11 AM PST by Beave Meister
Schooled in Wisconsin!
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Outstanding. Sent to my state reps here in Pa.
Tremendous! Thanks for posting. Needs to be shared with lots of folks.
Can we run this guy for president, he must be the only person who GETS IT!
My mom is a retired public school teacher and she doesn't get it at all. Anybody that criticizes teachers or unions she becomes knee jerk reactionary liberal. I had to scrape her off the wall and explain to her that most people who have 401Ks have to pay state taxes when they begin to withdraw them as she might have to do sometime soon with her pension here in Michigan.
Right up on FB.
Well done.
I don’t recall where I saw this easy illustration, but try it with your liberal mom and see if she can process a few logical thoughts:
Say to your mom, let’s compare two employees. One from the private and one from the public sector. Draw a line down the middle of a sheet of paper. Write “public sector” on one side. Write “private sector” on the other. Let’s say they both make the same salary: $40,000. Write $40,00 in each column. Next, lets look at their tax contributions. Both pay the same amount in taxes: $10,000. So the government gets $10,000 from each. Sounds equal, doesn’t it? However, what does it cost taxpayers to pay for the public sector employee’s salary? The answer is $30,000. But, when you add in the costs of benefits, it will cost taxpayers about $10,000 for that public sector employees’ benefits, so the net amount of contribution from the public sector employee is actually zero. So write net tax contribution: $0. Then ask what it costs to pay for the employee minus their taxes. The answer is $40,000. So, we are at a negative $40,000. Meanwhile, the $10,000 of taxes paid by the private sector employee is a gain for the government. Their net contribution is $10,000.
Show her that as you add employees in the public sector column, you have to add many more in the private sector, because they are the ones footing the bills. They are the ones paying the salaries for the public sector. If the public sector grows while the private shrinks, sooner or later there is less and less money to pay for the public sector. This is exactly what the situation is now. The unionized public sector has grown and expects to continue getting their increases. But their demands are simply unsustainable.
sharing!
My dear Mr. Steward:As I am unable to accept your kind invitation to be present on the occasion of the Twentieth Jubilee Convention of the National Federation of Federal Employees, I am taking this method of sending greetings and a message.
Reading your letter of July 14, 1937, I was especially interested in the timeliness of your remark that the manner in which the activities of your organization have been carried on during the past two decades "has been in complete consonance with the best traditions of public employee relationships." Organizations of Government employees have a logical place in Government affairs.
The desire of Government employees for fair and adequate pay, reasonable hours of work, safe and suitable working conditions, development of opportunities for advancement, facilities for fair and impartial consideration and review of grievances, and other objectives of a proper employee relations policy, is basically no different from that of employees in private industry. Organization on their part to present their views on such matters is both natural and logical, but meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.
Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."
I congratulate the National Federation of Federal Employees the twentieth anniversary of its founding and trust that the convention will, in every way, be successful.
Very sincerely yours,
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Just a little something with which to annoy your Donk friends. Unthinkable and intolerable!
FDR! LOL!
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