Health & Fitness
Cry a River for the Public Sector
Public rant about the lack of shared sacrifice coming from the public sector.
I finally got around to reading the comments made on the Patch about public sector pay (, , and ). The basic sentiment is as follows:
- Taxpayers are fed up with the ever-rising cost of government.
- Taxpayers are angry with the lack of shared sacrifice from the public sector.
- Public sector workers have an over-abundant sense of entitlement.
The attached three graphs sum it up (for me, anyway). The graphs show that the cost of government is out of control and that public sector workers haven't felt the "great recession" at all while the private sector has lost jobs and hasn't had a salary increase in two years.
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It explains why much of the public sector seems out of touch with the taxpayer's pain. The public sector has gone skipping along without missing a beat; no big job losses and their salaries have increased like clockwork.
Now I read that the public sector is complaining about having to pay more for their own health-care and retirement. Boo hoo; cry a river. It's called shared sacrifice.
