Today is the first day of furloughs for thousands of federal employees due to sequestration cuts. Many conservatives and Tea Party types are probably pleased right now, they've been whining for years about how government employees are overpaid. Since wages have been declining in the private sector, it seems they want to see everyone standard of living on the decline...everyone except the rich of course.The conservative politicians have been demonizing government workers, while at the same time giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. A lot of working class people have joined in the 'bashing of public employees', I guess, because they've seen their own wages decline over the years. A lot of people around the country have this 'crabs in a barrel mentality' basically saying "if I don't have health care or livable wages then Public Employees shouldn't either." My answer to that is, workers in the private sector should fight for higher wages and benefits; you can start by joining a fucking union.
Private sector workers should stop listening to those sellout conservative politicians who only care about the rich. All workers need to organize and fight for higher wages and benefits. Stop blaming public employees and unions because your living conditions have decline. The reason private sector wages have declined is because greedy ass business owners have bought off your politicians so they can make more profits.
Big businesses have been allowed to do business with countries that uses slave labor or they hire illegal immigrants to do the jobs cheaper here at home. So if people in the private sector want to improve their standard of living, then they need to demand it from their employers rather than
criticizing public employees.
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