The Cynical War on Public Sector Workers

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The Cynical War on Public Sector Workers
By Matthew Rothschild
Editor of The Progressive
January 4, 2011

In the ruling class’s endless strategy of divide and conquer, its current tactic of pitting public sector workers against those in the private sector is gaining ground.

This assault on public workers is happening in one state after another around the country.

“This is a concerted, deep attack on public employees and public workers," Gerald W. McEntee, president of the 1.6-million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), told the Washington Post last month.

First, as McEntee noted, “The problem in the economy has not been created by public workers. It was created by Wall Street.”

.... the attack on public sector workers is an attack on the idea that there should be a decent middle class in this country.

If everyone’s wages and benefits have to be reduced to those offered by the stingiest private sector boss, you can kiss the middle class goodbye.

Those who rig the system and reward themselves would rather that workers fought among themselves than focused their anger upwards.

Read the full article at:

http://www.progressive.org/wx010311.html

[county worker]

1. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law have told me how the public wants to cut the pensions of public

workers because the pensions paid are too high. Now I know that they are just repeating what they heard from media reports but I think the reports are not stating what the public opinion is but rather the reports are trying to create the public opinion and they are doing a good job.

The trouble is my in-laws don't see it that way. Being sheeple they go along with what ever they hear.

I would like us all to work to raise the standard of living of the working class not bring it down. I don't see how with the way most people believe the bull shit they hear from the media we can ever turn around the raise to the bottom.

My mother-in-law on the one hand agrees that pensions and salaries of public sector workers are too high and then tells me that the coming generation will be the first that will have a lower standard of living then their parents. My question to her is, "who's responsible for that?"