I was referring specifically to the post that Loveithere made saying that 3/4 of all public employees should be fired that KatzPajamas agreed with.

As far as the attitude in general, Richie, I hope you'll take the following in the spirit it is intended.

I think one of the worst things that has been happening to us as a country is that our drive for efficiency (a good thing) has devolved into a race to the bottom where corporations treat their people like commodities (unless you're on the Board - you get a golden parachute there). Companies used to say their employees were their most valuable asset. This is no longer true.

Many people say that at least we're not like Europe with their unemployment problems. Well, I just looked up those statistics. The two largest EU economies have shocking numbers. Germany's unemplyment rate is *5.8%*!!! France is higher - matching our 9.9% but they have notoriously generous unemployment benefits, even by EU standards.

The VERY socialistic Norway? 3.2%

You can play with the graphs here:
http://www.google.com/publicdata/exp...up&hl=en&dl=en

So all those high-tax Eurozone countries (with the notable exceptions of the PIIGS countries Portugal/Ireland/Italy/Greece/Spain) seem to have better unemployment numbers than we do...

So tell me again how we're supposed to be better now that we're paid less, do more, get fewer benefits and are treated like commodities more than the EU?

A lot of truths that I was raised to believe are turning out to no longer be true.