Media Struggles to Paint All Public Workers as Just Middle Class

Posted on | August 12, 2010 | No Comments |

Six-figure pensions. Impossible to be laid off or fired. Paid furloughs. Tons of vacation time. According to the media, these workers are the middle class.

From ABC News:

Civil Servants Find Themselves Cast in Unlikely Role -- Fat Cats

They are being cast that way because you only have to look at their salaries and pensions to deduce that.

Move over Wall Street traders -- seems there's a new vampire squid in town. Civil servants?

Passage Tuesday of a controversial bill sending billions of dollars to states to shore up payrolls for public school teachers further stoked the debate over whether government employees, their unions and their benefits packages are bankrupting the country.

"[The bill] will make the teachers unions happy, but it won't make teaching in schools better," said Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., at a press conference Tuesday during which he and other Republican leaders criticized legislation earmarking $26 billion in aid for school districts and other state agencies.

Vampire squid? Btw, they are no longer civil servants. They are leeches.

"As a society, we meant well but we overpromised," said Carol Kellerman, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a New York City nonprofit group that seeks to curb wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars. "These benefits to civil servants are no longer sustainable."

From cash-strapped California, where the public school teachers have been hammered as the highest-paid in the country, to Connecticut, where an assistant police chief in New Haven recently made headlines for retiring at age 48 with a six-figure annual pension, public workers, fairly or not, are increasingly the target of public scrutiny and scorn.

Gee, ya think?

Read this line. Then read it again.

Around 350 city teachers who were laid off earlier this year might be able to come back to work as a result of the bill, Langyel said.

So $26 billion went to pay teachers who are already working, which means the money went to the states that pay these teachers because they don't have the money to pay them and the unions. And when the money is gone, do you think the states will learn their lesson? Nope, they'll just look for more bailouts.

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