Politicians and labor unions and their officials always refer to the "working man" as though no one can be one unless they belong to a union. I have news for them, unless you are unemployed, you are a worker! Even if you don't sweat at work, you work. If someone pays you or if you pay yourself, you work and qualify as "the working man". Even the boss of all bosses works.
When those goons in Wisconsin and their "workers" say the new policies are an assault on the "working man", what they mean is that it is an attack on the blood suckers who bilk the "working man" of millions of dollars every year. They are more concerned with their "jobs" than the workers' jobs. Their frantic and threatening reaction to sensible reforms reveals the true character of the people involved. So much for "peaceful dialogue"
Workers, wherever they are on the totem pole, deserve fair treatment. Labor laws insure basic fairness but the value of the worker to the employer should always trump any artificial, arbitrary relationship. Insisting that people who do the same job do it with equal skill and competence to receive the same pay is not unreasonable. It rewards the competent and incentivizes the less competent. If the lazy are to be paid the same as the most ambitious, the rotten apple scenario will follow.
When government workers negotiate wages and benefits, they are not negotiating with the government, they are negotiating with other working people who do not work for the government. It is not the government who is saying "we can't afford it"', it is other workers. Government workers are comfortable asking other workers to "give" but go ballistic when non-government workers ask them to "give back".
When those goons in Wisconsin and their "workers" say the new policies are an assault on the "working man", what they mean is that it is an attack on the blood suckers who bilk the "working man" of millions of dollars every year. They are more concerned with their "jobs" than the workers' jobs. Their frantic and threatening reaction to sensible reforms reveals the true character of the people involved. So much for "peaceful dialogue"
Workers, wherever they are on the totem pole, deserve fair treatment. Labor laws insure basic fairness but the value of the worker to the employer should always trump any artificial, arbitrary relationship. Insisting that people who do the same job do it with equal skill and competence to receive the same pay is not unreasonable. It rewards the competent and incentivizes the less competent. If the lazy are to be paid the same as the most ambitious, the rotten apple scenario will follow.
When government workers negotiate wages and benefits, they are not negotiating with the government, they are negotiating with other working people who do not work for the government. It is not the government who is saying "we can't afford it"', it is other workers. Government workers are comfortable asking other workers to "give" but go ballistic when non-government workers ask them to "give back".
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