Isn’t it just stunning how the gubmint employee never even contemplates that people GO OUT OF business in the private sector? It’s other planetary that so called conservatives look at “wages” as something that will aLWAYS be there, and will almost always GO UP every year, and that somehow a “freeze” is like robbing them. Methinks Trebb is a pro defense liberal.
Government employees don’t understand the concept of RIF or going out of business, because the government NEVER gets smaller, only larger. It doesn’t matter how bad things are on the outside—the government drones can be assured that their checks will keep coming and the happy times will keep rolling.
Trying to explain economic fundamentals to them is like explaining calculus to a bunch of goats. They are not equipped to understand.
The country is becoming balkanized on many levels. One of them is the government dependent vs. private sector.
Everybody in the private sector has taken a huge hit the last few years.
Yet listen to the screeching when it is suggested government employees share the burden. Sad to say I don’t see much difference now between the fedgov employee and the obamaphone welfare queen. They are both government dependent and when the chips are down they are all in with Uncle Sugar. You can see it in this very thread.