I have an old book that was my grandfather's about how to lie with statistics.
1. Never, ever us the median.
2. Always use averages.
There was a lot more of course, but an average is far easier to manipulate into something meaningless. Even couch potatoes are finally beginning to catch on to this.
I do believe the numbers are on our side with this issue, but we need to present a more complete set of data.
Really, the crap we are presenting on public employee costs is as ambiguous and vague as global warmist crap.
Some one put out something with depth and raw data.
often the people screaming the loudest like to confuse the argument by complicating it to the point people’s eyes gloss over...
the country’s collective gut instinct is correct- gubmint unions are a scam and a conflict of interest to the taxpaying public’s financial well-being.
look around: those “laboratories of democracy” just tells us what does NOT work and why:
Detroit and Decay [city may abandon half its schools to pay union benefits]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657788/posts
Why Teacher Pensions Don’t Work
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2655928/posts
Better Than Bankruptcy: Trim Fat State Pensions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2674906/posts
Kentucky Senate Votes To End Guaranteed Pensions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2673540/posts
Flashback- City taxpayers foot 90% of municipal pensions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2677070/posts