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Posted by SilverFox on Wed Sep 1 00:19:06 2010, in response to Re: Oh L - Robotrains have a mind of their own, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Aug 31 23:28:28 2010. Civil service might have gotten screwed as well, but again, it's a parallel but different yardstick. When T/Os etc ask for ten percent yearly raises, we on even Wall Street, nevermind Main Street, have to laugh. For every "wig" on Wall Street and his million dollar yearly bonus, there's hundreds of us who are lucky to make a ten percent bonus that year. I know, you don't get bonuses in the public sector, but that ten percent (of which fifty percent is taxed) pales to the generous overall package on offer to you. And raises in the private sector -- I kid you not -- top out at about three percent a year. With money markets paying one basis point interest, and with inflation going about 4%, what does a two or one percent raise do for you? If you can get more, props to your Union daddy. But seriously, why YOU and not others, especially when others have no choice in paying YOU as opposed to paying [insert name of favorite private sector CEO scumbag here]? If we're suffering, that's all the more reason for YOU (collectively, as in the public sector. Not you personally) to suffer in kind. No more, no less. All of Generation X is getting lied to about its prospects for a future. When we were ten years old, houses cost $30,000.00, and annual incomes were approximately equal. Now, a matchbox house costs $400K in a decent neighborhood with average schools, and wages went up, what, two thirds? I'm not talking about the dolts who always lived beyond their means and are now crying in their beer about how the rest of the world is to blame for their shortcomings. I'm talking about honest, upright people with even decent-paying jobs like mine who can't amass enough capital to enter the Establishment and live independently despite doing all of what they've been told was the right thing. And this chasm is getting larger. But what honks me, and others like me, off, is that there seems to be a band of renegades out there, who say they're "like us," who live "like we do" who refuse to understand that when they ask for more in times like this, they are hurting themselves, hurting those around them, and not winning any sympathy, despite their working just as hard "as we do." They do. But we're still questioning how many of them are needed, at what price, and whether more is in everybody's interest. Just like in the private sector. And this is something, sadly, I don't see many of them willing to understand. |
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