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In a bad economy, it is not politically expedient to go after those who actually caused it...bankers and investors who gambled away the pension fund money, leaving those with whom the State had a contract high and dry while the bankers and investors look for another source of revenue to gamble with. Why do you think politicians are clamoring for public sector pensions to become privatized? The bankers that own them want new sources of gambling money. In bad times, it's always those who can least afford it who are asked to sacrifice the most. In good times, they never get back what they lost in bad times. We are witnessing the destruction of organized labor in this country, and when workers lose their benefits and right to certain workplace conditions, we become China...where workers are little more than slaves. We are engaged in an economic race to the bottom, where there will be a huge number of poverty-stricken masses who claw at the few crumbs the small number of incredibly wealthy people allow them. When we saw who was available to vote for back in November, the "Rent Is Too Damn High" guy was actually looking like a viable option. The answer to high unemployment seems to be to create more unemployment. As long as it's public sector workers that are out of work, that seems to be fine by most people...heck, they aren't even real people, right? Just faceless bureaucrats. Let 'em starve.
First they came for the State workers and I did nothing...because I wasn't a state worker. Then they came for the teachers, but I did nothing...because I wasn't a teacher. Then they came for the police and fire workers and I did nothing...because I wasn't a policeman or fireman. Eventually, when they came for my job, saying that someone in another country could do it cheaper...there was no one left to speak for me.
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