Part One - The Shameful Attack and Truth

The Nattering One Muses...Rather than place blame, directly were it belongs, with the politicians responsible for the House of Finances ascendancy over the last thirty years...

and the rich blue blood fatcats that got them elected in order to rape and pillage globally along with their globalization (new world disorder) plans...

along with the greed and hubris of Wall Street, real estate, bankers and financial criminals who brought us the house of cards or shit we now live in...

Public servants are convenient scapegoats.

It's far more convenient to go after people who are doing the public work -- sanitation workers, police officers, fire fighters, teachers, social workers, federal employees -- to call them "faceless bureaucrats" and portray them as hooligans who are making off with your money and crippling federal and state budgets.

Public employees earn far more than private-sector workers?

That's untrue when you take account of level of education. Matched by education, public sector workers actually earn less than their private-sector counterparts.

Only 23 percent of private-sector employees have college degrees; 48 percent of government workers do.

Over the last fifteen years the pay of public sector workers has dropped relative to private-sector employees with the same level of education.

Public sector workers now earn 11 percent less than comparable workers in the private sector, and local workers 12 percent less.

Even if you include health and retirement benefits, government employees still earn less than their private-sector counterparts with similar educations.

Public-sector pensions are crippling the nation? Public-employee pensions obligations are out of control?

Some reforms do need to be made. Loopholes that allow public sector workers to "spike" their final salaries in order to get higher annuities must be closed. And no retired public employee should be allowed to "double dip," collecting more than one public pension.

But these are the rare exceptions of ABUSERS. Most public employees don't ABUSE and do not have generous pensions.

After a career with annual pay averaging less than $45,000, the typical newly-retired public employee receives a pension of $19,000 a year. Few would call that overly generous.

And most of that $19,000 isn't even on taxpayers' shoulders. While they're working, most public employees contribute a portion of their salaries into their pension plans.

Taxpayers are directly responsible for only about 14 percent of public retirement benefits.

Bargaining rights for public employees have caused state deficits to explode?

Some states that deny their employees bargaining rights -- Nevada, North Carolina, and Arizona, for example, are running giant deficits of over 30 percent of spending.

Many that give employees bargaining rights -- Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Montana -- have small deficits of less than 10 percent.

Public employees often know more about whether public programs are working, or how to make them work better, than political appointees who hold their offices for only a few years.

This version of class warfare is to pit private-sector workers against public servants.

The ruling class would rather set average working people against one another -- comparing one group's modest incomes and benefits with another group's modest incomes and benefits -- than have Americans see that the top 1 percent is now raking in a bigger share of national income than at any time since 1928, and paying at a lower tax rate.

Shameful indeed.

More to come in this FOUR PART series.

Click this link to read the full text of former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich’s op-ed.

The Nattering One Muses... Lazarus has arisen, rise and tell others...

We need to school some liberal left wing Democrats and conservative right wing Republicans.

We won't mention anyone else calling themselves tea baggers, because calling a Ex-Democrat - a Libertarian, or a Ex-Republican - a Tea Party member, is like calling a Ex Nazi - a Socialistic Swastika Lover.

Warm and fuzzy, isn't it? Tell that to the six million Jews that were gassed and turned into ashes.

Your political camouflage is a thin cheap veneer, and deep down, you know what you are, and you can't handle the truth.

The truth being, you can't change your spots or stripes and hide from the Nattering One or anyone with an ounce of common sense.

We of the COMMON SENSE party call BULLSHIT and SHAME on all of you... and like the hunters we are, we will expose you through your words and actions.