Nonetheless, a rising chorus of commentators charge that public sector workers are overpaid relative to employees in comparable positions in the private sector. The fact that this claim is demonstrably false appears not to matter. Instead, the attacks are escalating. The most recent proposal gaining traction is to write new laws that would allow states to declare bankruptcy. This would let them rip up contracts with current public sector employees and walk away from their pension fund obligations. Only by declaring bankruptcy, Republican luminaries Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich argued in the Los Angeles Times, will states be able to “reform their bloated, broken and underfunded pension systems for current and future workers.”
This is about plutocracy and redefining the blurred boundaries between the classes. I was reading about Mussolini and fascism last night. He pushed to the Italian people that fascism was going to do away with the class system. Yet he revered and espoused The Republic, which really touted the class system. This is about the elite moving us towards a system of very few elite, filthy, stinking rich at the top and the rest of us poor and struggling peasants underneath their noses and thumbs. They can't enjoy their wealth unless we are all suffering. Sick, but even recent history is full of evil, power hungry greedy men and women who believe this is the way the world should and needs to be.
Have you noticed that things like concert tickets and even going to the movies has been priced nearly out of the reach of the average family? It is only getting worse.
