Can we form a new United States and let the damn marxist keep the one with all the freaking debt and let them figure out how to pay for it and the exorbitant salaries?
Posted on 03/30/2010 6:24:33 AM PDT by suspects
Want to know the real reason Washington and Beacon Hill are so afraid of the Tea Party movement?
Follow the money.
If you live in Salem, follow it to one of the 45 city employees earning $100,000 a year or more - up from 34 just two years ago. The median household income in Salem is less than $60,000.
At the state level, follow it to the MBTA worker at “The Ride” - a door-to-door ride service with the noble goal of helping handicapped folks get around. But as the Boston Globe-Democrat reports, spending in just 10 years has gone up 400 percent - from $21.4 million to $84.8 million. Every time someone uses this service, Deval Patrick is digging $41 out of our pockets.
And at the national level, it’s worse. From the Wall Street Journal:
“It turns out there really is growing inequality in America. It’s the 45 percent premium in pay and benefits that government workers receive over the poor saps who create wealth in the private economy.
“And the gap is growing. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 1998 to 2008 public employee compensation grew by 28.6 percent, compared with 19.3 percent for private workers.”
As a result, government workers today earn about $1.45 for every dollar you earn doing the same job in an “I pay taxes and compete for customers” business. Think about it: If you earned $10,000 in wages and benefits, someone getting paid out of your taxes earned $14,500. Your $50K translates through the magic of government into their $72,500.
For the same work. No, that’s not even true, because when you go to work there’s a chance you could get fired for doing a lousy job. Those $100K Salem workers know they could pass out drunk...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
He missed the point. The money is a very bad side effect, where non-productive government workers make more than those they are supposed to serve, but freedom is the primary reason. I don’t mind that many productive private businesspeople will make far more than me next year as I allow my income and contribution to the socialist economy to drop. I didn’t mind when I started out that many working (real work, not union parasites) people made a lot more than me. What I mind is a bunch of elitist socialists taking my freedom and destroying the legacy that I am morally obligated to pass on to my children and grandchildren.
As soon as the Tea Party backlash began I noted it wasn’t the usual ‘evil GOP’ stuff.
The anti-TP types are genuinely frightened of mass opposition to tax-and-spend policies when the mass is comprised of those who pay the freight.
Obama: Tea Party features ‘core group’ against him
Mar 30, 7:00 AM (ET)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says he believes the Tea Party is built around a “core group” of people who question whether he is a U.S. citizen and believe he is a socialist....
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100330/D9EOUFT82.html
I read the entire article. Graham didn't miss the point. Yes, big government is taking away our freedom and liberties, but without the tax revenue and deficit spending, the size of government won't increase and these new programs can't be implemented. From the article:
"Who were the top beneficiaries of the $860 billion (and climbing) “stimulus package”? Government workers, of course. And while the impact of Obamacare on the private sector is still being debated, everyone agrees that the more than 100 new boards, panels and commissions it creates are going to need new boarders, panelers and commissioners. And being goodhearted, public-spirited liberals, they’ll expect to be well paid."
Follow the money.
I’m glad to see the issue of public vs private sector compensation is getting some attention. It needs it.
Can we form a new United States and let the damn marxist keep the one with all the freaking debt and let them figure out how to pay for it and the exorbitant salaries?
You have to pay your army of bureaucrats well in order to continue the war of regulation on the citizenry.
“45 city employees earning $100,000 a year or more - up from 34 just two years ago.”
And they are doing 3 times more right
They are having their rights, their livelihood, and their children’s future stolen by a corrupt bunch of thugs passing as leaders of the DC Empire.
Bump for later reading.
Our quiet anger is getting ready to boil over and cleanse the rats out of DC and state offices this November with our ballots not bullets.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2482897/posts
America’s Quiet Anger
American Spectator ^ | 3-30-10 | James P. Gannon
Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 4:30:17 AM by kingattax
There is a quiet anger boiling in America.
It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage loans — and see their government reward those who do not.
It is the anger of small town and Middle American folks who have never been to Manhattan, who put their savings in a community bank and borrow from a local credit union, who watch Washington lawmakers and presidents of both parties hand billions in taxpayer bailouts to the reckless Wall Street titans who brought down the economy in 2008.
It is the fury of the voiceless, the powerless, the ordinary nobodies of Flyover Country who are ridiculed, preached to, satirized and insulted by the Celebrity Loudmouths of the two Left Coasts, the Jon Stewarts and Keith Olbermanns, the Paul Krugmans and their ilk.
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