This column presents a conservative viewpoint about items of interest in our community and our lives. Focus is on items impacting your pocket book, your personal freedoms, and your rights. I hope you will read the column regularly and it occasionally influences your opinions and actions.
As state after state struggles with budget deficits which have been created by decades of generous spending combined with sudden and significant declines in state revenues created by the current depression or recession (depending on how much you and your family has been impacted thus far), the hapless Governors are running directly into the massive power of the public unions. After millions of private sector employees have been laid off or fired as their companies went out of business or had to go through great sessions of cost cutting, after these destitute workers have suffered month after month of unemployment, …. the pain has finally reached the public sector. The “Time of the Crat” is upon us. It is their turn to feel some of the pain and reality of the recession.
Prior to the 1980’s there was an unwritten understanding between those who chose to work for government and those who chose to work for business and industry. If you worked for government, your pay and benefits might not equal those enjoyed by those working in the private arena, but you had a reasonable retirement and job security. You were almost promised to never be laid off, as government workers were protected from the ups and downs of cycles in industry.
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