Electrify
Senior Member
The real problem isn't that the government isn't the government overpaying its workers, its that the private sector is underpaying them. After World War II we saw the development of a strong middle class: moderately skilled workers with respectable incomes to afford a home in the suburbs, a car, and start a family. However through decades of outsourcing and capitalistic greed, the middle class is disappearing from the private sector and we are seeing rich management watching over a low income workforce.
The public sector is one of the few areas which is keeping the middle class alive, and even that is under attack. Look at the drama which is happening with TEACHERS (hardly an unskilled field) in Wisconsin right now. Unfortunately this is not too surprising, since you have an increasing lower class paying the wages of a "privileged" middle class through their taxes. I'm not proposing a communist solution where everyone makes the same income, but we need some safeguards to distribute the wealth so that we don't have a manager driving a Bentley while his employees can barely afford bus fare.
If we don't, then this recession is going to get much worse before it gets better...
The public sector is one of the few areas which is keeping the middle class alive, and even that is under attack. Look at the drama which is happening with TEACHERS (hardly an unskilled field) in Wisconsin right now. Unfortunately this is not too surprising, since you have an increasing lower class paying the wages of a "privileged" middle class through their taxes. I'm not proposing a communist solution where everyone makes the same income, but we need some safeguards to distribute the wealth so that we don't have a manager driving a Bentley while his employees can barely afford bus fare.
If we don't, then this recession is going to get much worse before it gets better...