Reply #25: and the non-rich are sitting back and ...

[radhika]

letting them get away with it. Helping them get away with it - voting for the kind of folks that promise to do it.

Out hear in California a common refrain is that the REAL enemy of America or the State is those overpaid public employees living in luxury on the taxpayer's dime. I hear them lambasting all our public unions and pensioners and demanding, treating them like con artists. I also never hear these types of complainers (virtually all Repugs) suggesting a fair look at jobs and earnings, benefit structures as a way to reframe the Social Contract for the greater good of the community.