[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Daisyjane69]

If I lived in CA, the next Proposition I would put on the ballot to feel the wrath of voters would be a repeal of the 1978 Dill Act, which is the one that allows the unionization of public servants. This is the perfect time to do it, while the taxpayers are hacked off.

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_california-economy.html

[Seruzawa]

"Public employee unions say the compensation gap reflects the increasingly high level of skill and education required for most federal jobs and the government contracting out lower-paid jobs to the private sector in recent years."

A complete and bald-faced lie.

[Diogenesis]

“You are our slaves who will now build our Victory Mosques and Crescents beginning
where each of the firsts attack began. As-salamu alaykum, dhimmis.”

[wiggen]

“Public employee unions say the compensation gap reflects the increasingly high level of skill and education required for most federal jobs”
Postal workers?

[sodpoodle]

We should stop calling them Civil Servants or Government Workers!

Most of them are not civil and the Government doesn’t work.

They are cannibals!!!

[kittymyrib]

And the worst bunch of tax cheaters in the country are public employees, with employees of the IRS having the highest percentage of non-filers. Sweet job all around.

[dalebert]

yes..I propose that all civil servants and lawmakers take a cut in pay and benefits more in keeping with the people they work for...If they dont like it they can leave and let someone else have the job..Why are they making more than most Americans...Why do they have better benefits than most Americans? We could afford our own healthcare if we were not paying them...We outlawed slavery.

[capt. norm]

unions say the compensation gap reflects the increasingly high level of skill and education required for most federal jobs

I would say it is quite the opposite!

Has anyone on this forum ever dealt with a government employee that demonstrated this high level of skill and education?

[abortionisalwaysmurder]

government workers are the masters of the serfs.

[FrogMom]

Bavaro said that this has made federal workers' lives much easier than those who pay the taxes, with union contracts guaranteeing cost-of-living increases even when the economy is in recession.

I'm sure that there are many useless federal employees. As usual, this guy writes to hearts, not heads. My Civil Servant husband DOES produce something - trained soldiers, sailors, and marines. And works hard to do it.

...this has made federal workers' lives much easier than those who pay the taxes... Those who PAY the taxes!!! What the hell do they think that 27 THOUSAND dollars that went to the fedgov WAS???

And no, he doesn't make over 100K either.

[LomanBill]

L.I.F.E.Rs

[Pearls Before Swine]

The march to the utopian dictatorship of the proletariat usually stalls at the stage of dictatorship of the apparatchiks.