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Originally Posted by djplong
The ignorance is staggering.
Go ahead - get rid of 3/4 of the people who do all those services. 3/4 of the cops, firefighters and teachers (think classes are over crowded now?). Knock of 3/4 of the military, the food inspectors, the people who fix your roads (no, you NEVER demanded services from the government) and make sure your water is clean.
There's no argument against the fact that there are places that CAN be cut (we just had a bit of a bloodbath here at the Air Force and are getting word this'll happen again next year). But you're in a fantasyland if you think that you could just lop off 3/4.
Full time civilian employees:
2010 State government employee count: 3,809,697
2010 Local government employee count: 10,965,982
2009 Federal government employee count: 2,823,777 (latest figures available)
That's nearly 18 million employees. You think you can just make another 13+ million unemployed?
Going to have 1/4 the staff in areas like police, fire, prisons, air traffic, water terminals, hospitals, sewers, solid waste management, parks, electric and gas utilities, schools (K-12), libraries, judiciary, transit, financial administration, the military, financial administration, and a whole host of other things I haven't thought of?
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You start off with the caterwauling about cops and firemen as they did in the $30 million dollar union campaign in Ohio to stir up the people. It does not deflect from the point.
I can't speak for everybody else, but I'm not calling for the elimination of essential services and I doubt anyone else is. We're calling for the end of the ceaseless demands for more and more compensation for public employees who now earn more that any comparable employee in the private sector who pays for all the largess that is doled out to them by entities that don't have to earn that money.
I want public employees to know that YOU WORK FOR US. We pay you and we also have the right to question the amount of pay WE give you.
Dispute that.