Six-Figure Bus Drivers & Other Working-Class Heroes

[Geee]

Human Events:




Can we stop acting as if people who work for the government are the heroes of working people?

Fine, we understand that Wisconsin public sector employees like the system that pays them an average of $76,500 per year, with splendiferous benefits, and are fighting like wildcats against any proposed reforms to that system. But it's madness to keep treating people who are promoting their own self-interest as if they are James Meredith walking into the University of Mississippi.

This isn't how we usually view people fighting for their own economic interests.


When Wall Street opposes financial reforms or a tobacco company opposes new cigarette taxes, no one hails them as "working men and women" who "deserve a decent pay and decent retirement." We're not told Wall Street has a "fundamental right" not to be regulated, or tobacco companies promoting their own interests are just trying to "help working people and middle-class people retain a good job in America." People on the other side of the issue aren't said to be "just trying to kick the other guy in the shin and exterminate him."

And yet all that was said by the Democratic governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, on MSNBC's "Hardball" last week, about government workers fighting to preserve their own Alex Rodriguez-like employment contracts.

Yes, we understand that public sector employees got themselves terrific overtime, holiday, pension and health care deals through buying politicians with their votes and campaign money. But now, responsible elected officials in Wisconsin are trying to balance the budget.

[Pepper]

The headline alone says it all

 

[NCTexan]

Good article from Ann...

 

I hate to hear some of these folks describe themselves as a "Public Servant".

 

When is the last time that you saw them out protesting something in the interest of "The Public" rather than their own personal interest?

 

BTW With all this time to picket, when do these folks have time to "serve"?

 

[Pepper]

And let's not even get into the other meanings of Servant.

[SrWoodchuck]

Watched Anne Coulter on Hannity last night & she was lit up......Hannity couldn't get a word in.....he just giggled & let her go.

 

Great post.