Who is the American privileged class? Wall Street hedge fund managers? No. Public employees expecting their pension!
June 7, 2010
What a scam. The biggest economic crisis in U.S. history and who gets slammed. Not the Wall Street wheeler-dealers who caused the collapse. It’s state employees who have worked for 30 years expecting a pension when they retire. We’re the greedy ones.
“We have a new privileged class in America,” said Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who rescinded state workers’ collective bargaining power on his first day in office in 2006. “We used to think of government workers as underpaid public servants. Now they are better paid than the people who pay their salaries.”
“It’s a part of a very large question the nation’s got to face,” Daniels told POLITICO in an interview. “Who serves whom here? Is the public sector—as some of us have always thought—there to serve the rest of society? Or is it the other way around?”
The new focus on public workers is the product of a perfect storm of anti-labor factors.
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What is interesting about the linked article, is that it make the accusation that one of the reasons for the current war against public workers is that the newer union leaders are weaker than those in the past. It’s survival of the fittest, the weak will be destroyed and our union leadership seems fit that role.