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that's NOT totalitarianism

Posted by Baldur on 2010-July-02 22:37:57 EDT, Friday
In reply to Bigtime TOTALITARIANISM right here in the USSA posted by stahntii on 2010-July-02 19:05:31 EDT, Friday
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Plenty of policies that ARE totalitarian, but that one is not.

State and Federal employees generally make much better salaries than private sector workers. Once upon a time they got generous benefits to make up for missing out on private sector opportunities, but now they generally make more than private sector employees doing similar jobs plus fantastic benefits. Overall compensation for federal employees is frequently twice what private sector employees get.

Thanks to all our government spending, many private sector employees have lost their jobs and all their income, so learning that some government employees are now taking a pay cut will not impress those who have suffered twice from government profligacy (first by being taxed, and again by being put out of work). If anything, they are liable to think that it is long past due. If the employees in question think that they are not being paid enough, they are always welcome to find another job that pays better.

There's a phrase that is popular among the working class around where I live: "The world don't owe you a living."



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