Like Libloather said, public employees are like ticks on a dog! Sure there may be some who are worried about our country, but that worry is eclipsed by their own self-interest. Just look at the “news” about Los Angeles today! Ninety-one percent of the city’s budget is employee cost. I don’t know of any business that could survive having that kind of an employee burden. Public Employees have been riding the gravy train since the end of WWII, but their “train” has run out of gas ( read other people’s money). If we really took a look at the cost/benefit of what government is “providing,” we would put a huge percentage of them out of their jobs immediately. My comment still stands. I don’t think that the average public employee gives a $hit about those who pay his salary and benefits. He has deluded himself into actually believing that he is important to the rest of us and “deserves” everything that’s been promised him. Hopefully, Detroit under receivership will finally get the changes needed to become viable once again. I am sorry that you have had economic issues, but so have we. I am retired. I provided for my own retirement. I don’t get a pension from anyone. So when the economy “collapsed” (read the greedy bastards in New York screwed us all so their kids could continue to go to private school) we lost 30% of what we had invested for our retirement. At 72, I am not in a position to go back to work like you, so our remaining lives have been permanently altered. So I am just taking the position that you public employees have had all along. “Screw you guys,” I don’t give a $hit whether you have a job or not. You sure as hell didn’t care about what you were doing to me!
Did you not even read what I typed, or did you just just choose to ignore it?
There are many of us who do care and, again, for you to just throw out a blanket statement like that is insulting, hateful, and ignorant.
People with your attitude are as much of the problem as those who do have the attitude you attribute to me. Wise up man, and learn to realize that many of us are not what you describe.
vette6387 - do you take Social Security and Medicare?