Poll: CA public-worker benefits 'too generous'

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Even in California, where union-funded support led to a Democratic sweep of statewide offices last year, voters support reforms in how public-employee pensions and health benefits are funded - a major shift from two years ago, a new survey by UC Berkeley and the Field Poll found.

The survey, released today, found that 42 percent of the respondents think pension benefits for public employees are "too generous" - up from 32 percent in October 2009. The poll of 898 registered voters was taken Feb. 28-March 14 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.

The results come in the wake of weeks of protests in Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker and a Republican-dominated Legislature stripped public employee unions of most collective bargaining powers and exacted greater employee contributions toward benefits. Lawmakers in Indiana, Ohio and several other states are working on similar measures.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/16/BAMJ1ID7A3.DTL

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1. "...respondents think... "

Apparently not for themselves.

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2. This

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3. Personally, I think it's been the Right Wing Media Blitz

coming from Wisconsin moving the sheep to their opinion. Unions are VERY powerful in this state and I've no doubt they can push back HARD if/when they need to.

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4. including 32% of California Democrats? n/t

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5. I would venture to say 95% of the population of

California has no idea what this is really all about. This is the state that voted for Ahnie . . . twice. All the sheeple have heard is what Faux Nooz and CNN have been spoon feeding them with no counter. The unions here hare strong enough to put up a significant media blitz of their own. Additionally, we have a completely different scenario in California. We have a Democratic legislature (remember, these are STATE bills) and a Democratic governor not to mention a whole lot of waaay left-wing crazy-assed activist libruls. Far different scenario here.