[distressed]

One cannot compare public and private sector workers.

For those of use working in the private sector, promoting ones own self interest should be applauded.

After all, in a free market, one gets rich and promotes ones own self interest by providing a good or service that someone else wants to buy at an agreeable price. You can only get rich by benefitting those who pay you.

In a free market of voluntary exchanges, one can only get rich by providing a benefit to society.

With unions and especially public employee unions...its completely different. They provide a service that Joe Taxpayer is forced (under threat of imprisonment) to pay for. There is no voluntary exchange.

Private sector workers promote their own economic self interest by serving others’ interests.

Public sector workers promote their own economic self interest at the expense of others’ interests

[Jim Scott]

Private sector workers promote their own economic self interest by serving others’ interests.

Public sector workers promote their own economic self interest at the expense of others’ interests.

Well put and completely accurate.

[muawiyah]

Your generalities are entirely too general. NO ONE adheres that tightly to any ideological standard.

We've all met surly cashiers in a myriad of private stores. Surveys repeatedly show that USPS letter carriers are among the most respected people in the country ~ certainly FAR HIGHER than politicians, lawyers, and news media types.

BTW, the news media are, in general, private sector A**H*L*S

[Matchett-PI]

“Public sector workers promote their own economic self interest at the expense of others’ interests” ~ distressed

bttt

Re: GOVERNMENT (Public Sector) Unions

This will make your blood boil.

A Disability Epidemic Among a Railroad’s Retirees
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/nyregion/21lirr.html?_r=1