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Richard Rosenthal

Greed and Obscene Demands

Posted February 1, 2010 @ 8:25PM

I, for one, am tired of hearing Syd Ryan and the other government union leaders complaining that they did not cause the current economic situation so they should not be expected to help pay for it. The taxpayers did not cause it. The auto workers did not cause it either. Certainly the seniors with fixed or diminished incomes didn't cause it either. But Mr. Ryan and his pals want them to not only bear the brunt of their own hardships but be weighed down by the obscene demands of his members.
So who should pay for it? There is no alternative when income is less than expenses but to cut expenses and the largest expense in government is the workforce. The auto workers and most people in the private sector had to to accept cutbacks to survive. Seniors have had to adjust their living because pensions eroded or disappeared. Mr. Ryan and his band of merry reality deniers are just going to have to accept the fact that there is no money to pay them. Does he really think that the rest of the world should continue to award pay increases and hefty benefits out of their diminished resources?
There was a time when civil servants were paid less than the private sector but had secure jobs in exchange. Now the public sector, for the most part, enjoy higher pay, better benefits and significantly more security than the private sector.
Perhaps it is time for unions in the public sector to be banned from striking or perhaps even eliminated. College teachers turning down a 5.9% pay increase in this economy and day care workers insisting that the private sector can't handle their work are ridiculous and they are earning scorn rather than praise from the general public.
by Richard Rosenthal

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