Wisconsin Protesters Far From Middle Class

Sunday Paper - March 6th, 2011

The world is backwards. It should be the taxpayers striking in the streets of Wisconsin, not those under union control. But, private sector taxpayers can’t afford to take a day off, let alone a week. Doesn’t that say everything?

Only government employees with their powerful unions, lifetime job security, short work-weeks, loads of sick days, nonstop holidays, early retirement, and bloated pensions, can afford to stand in the street protesting.

 Common sense tells us anyone with this much time to protest and the ability to abandon their work duties, is greatly overpaid.

It’s time for a reality check. These $100,000-per-year teachers keep talking about “the kids.” Exactly who is teaching those kids while their teachers abandon their jobs and commit fraud with fake doctor’s notes?

If they cared about the kids, they’d be in the classroom. They’d leave the striking and lobbying to their union leaders and lobbyists. Wisconsin teachers are the highest paid in the Midwest, but their students’ performance hasn’t improved. Where’s the taxpayer’s union? Where’s the students’ union?

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I’m a small businessman. Like all private sector workers, I have no time to protest or strike. Take a day off? How could I do that? I run a business. People depend on me.

I’m on call 24/7, 365. Vacations are “working vacations.” The phones never stop ringing, the e-mails never slow down. I have to work 16-hour days just to pay my taxes. Who benefits? Those government employees protesting in the streets of Wisconsin.

Is it fair that government employees can be paid as much as 70 percent more than the same jobs in the private sector? Is it fair that private sector taxpayers work to age 65, 75, or even longer, to pay obscene taxes, so government employees can retire at age 50, with bloated pensions?

These public “servants” claim this is a battle for the “middle class.” Let me assure you, in the private sector, a $100,000-per-year job with paid medical, early retirement, and 30 (or more) years of pension is as far from middle class as you can get, and is very rare.

Call me old fashioned, but the system has been rigged. Here in Las Vegas firefighters average $199,000 per year in compensation. Yes, you heard correctly. Quite a few have income of over $300,000.

This isn’t middle class, it’s a privileged class….

by Wayne Allyn Root

Read more at Newsmax.com - February 28th, 2011

http://www.newsmax.com/WayneAllynRoot/wisconsin-union-protests/2011/02/28/id/387669

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