Is your "mood" changing about government largess? Do you believe the government works for you, or is it the other way around? In the poor economy, are government workers becoming scapegoats or is anger rightfully directed toward them?
FTA: "Spurred by state budget crunches and an angry public mood, Republican and some Democratic leaders are focusing with increasing intensity on public workers and the unions that represent them, casting them as overpaid obstacles to good government and demanding cuts in their often-generous benefits... We used to think of government workers as underpaid public servants. Now they are better paid than the people who pay their salaries... Who serves whom here? Is the public sector - as some of us have always thought - there to serve the rest of society? Or is it the other way around? ...The public mood is clearly changing regarding these issues... If you inform the public and workers in the private sector about the inflated benefits and compensation packages of public employees, and then you remind the taxpayers that they’re footing the bill for that - they get on the reform train pretty quickly."
DISCUSS!
Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Jun 9, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=226
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