PackCrazed4
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First, ask yourself WHY the state is in debt. It isn't because of the hired help. It's a part of the world-wide financial collapse.
Second, people should have the right to collectively bargain. Things were not so rosy in the 1800s.
3rd, if you believe that in order to compete with the rest of the world, American corporations (and government) have to lower wages, cut health care costs, and cut retirement benefits by shifting them to the employee, explain this:
How is the average worker supposed to buy food, pay rent (not a mortgage, that is impossible on 10-15 dollars/hr), pay for health care, have a family, and save money for retirement?
Either the private sector pays wages that allow for the worker to care for himself; or the government does. The alternative is revolution.
Workers need to be economically independent and not wards of the state. But you can't be economically independent on $15/hour.
Our economy is doomed if well paying jobs are a thing of the past.
Yeah, but JBlood, that's the point. We live in a country where you can choose where to work, competition. If the government isn't offering you enough money to work for them, then you find a job elsewhere. Not to mention the fact that even with the reduction in pensions, it will still be better than a 401K plan.
Of course it's the Feds fault all the states are bankrupt, but unfortunately, the states still have to run themselves and can only control their own situations. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if something doesn't happen with cuts in spending, more government layoffs are imminent. It sucks that they have to do it, but if it were me, I'd rather take a slight pay cut than lose my job all together.