Slash Wrote:
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> Juppo Wrote:
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> > Pray tell, where would one make deeper cuts at
> > this point?
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> Reduce public employees pay and benefits by 40% to
> bring them in line with the private sector.


Good to see a solid, mature answer to this question! Even though public employees have already taken deep cuts to their income and pensions, etc, I'd agree with you only if the legislatures, Governor of California, corporate managers and their lobbyists also took a 40% pay cut. (I understand that the latter two receive the majority of their income from private sources of money, but they should lead by example, sacrifice as much as the people who actually do ALL the work (labor) and they'd still be infinitely richer in the end anyway). That would save far more money than cutting the pay of public sector employees even deeper.

With that being said, if anyone thinks that public employees are the cause, in part or whole of our economic crises, they're exactly wrong. It's not possible for people who make $100,000 per year or less to cause this economic collapse in whole. Multi-billionare bankers and corporate CEO's, with unregulated power and influence over Washington and Sacramento might be the cause of all this...

Only in a mentally ill, capitalist pig-sty Plutocracy such as this do rich people get richer off the backs of the poorest people, oppressing them with endless social and economic roadblocks while simultaneously blaming the same working class poor for their degraded social and economic condition. All the while, brainwashing a segment of that same poor working class (middle and lower class "conservatives" included) into not only supporting the capitalists' so-called right to be obscenely rich by use of oppressive social and labor tactics, but actually get the proletariat (all you so-called conservatives who aren't super rich, ie., pretty much all of you) into DEFENDING the capitalists' right to endless wealth, waste and the unfettered theft from those who actually do all the work.

But yes, let's take the rest of the hard earned money from the lowest paid public employees. I don't know about you, but I don't want the guy at the DMV or the local police to make minimum wage.