Originally Posted by Pats2010

Are you saying that paying taxes with taxpayer money is the same as private sector paying taxes with private sector money?
.....i am saying that i am one of those same taxpayers that you think needs sympathy! i just happen to have less of my taxes redistributed [in theory] because some of them come back to me in the form of a pension that i worked bloody hard to earn!

That is almost like the argument of the stimulus money creating jobs. Taxpayer money does not create jobs, it only redistributes taxpayers money.
.....if taxpayer money is better redistributed it could create private sector jobs; it did when i hired employees at the private hospital where i worked and thru the ceta jobs program the gov't paid the employee salary for three months and then my payroll picked up the cost for that new employee we had had the chance to screen, evaluate and establish improved performance. we hired lots of returning to work moms because of that program.

With unemployment at 22% and millions of people without jobs and losing their houses, I would think there would be more empathy from public employees.
.....who says there is no empathy...my personnel tech lost her house and moved her family back into an apartment on the outskirts of newark, nj - have ya seen those crime stats lately? - do you think only private sector folks are losing their homes? c'mon!

Maybe a drastic cut in public employees would straighten out their priorities.
.....be careful what you ask for...my old office has not hired one new employee in 5 yrs!...they have improved their processing routines/response with automation via computer and now the private sector employees and taxpayers are complaining that they cannot get their work processed thru the mail! there aren't enough bodies to process the work!

Sex enhancing drugs are for pleasure should not be subsidized by taxpayers of any sector.
.....i repeat, who are you to judge? and i ask, where did you get your pharmaceutical degree/experience - rexall? how knowledgeable are you re the uses of viagra - beyond what you hear or read? i am glad that your statement is an opinion rather than a fact.