It's Not Raining, We're Getting Peed on (II): The Scam of the Deficit Crisis

[sasha031]

Source: Huffington Post

Yesterday, I kicked off a series of posts about the phony deficit/debt "crisis" with an excerpt from the introduction to my new book, It's Not Raining, We're Getting Peed On: The Scam of the Deficit Crisis. Today, I'll continue with a part from the first chapter called, "Stupid".In honor of the mind-boggling decision by the president to single out public employees' pay for attack, I'm actually going to go a bit out of order here.
Stupid Statement #6: Public sector workers get lavish pensions.Stupid Statement #6: The average pension for a transit worker in New York is about $20,000-a year. Living most of your working life under ground--whether you drive a train or walk inside a tunnel to do maintenance--is a job choice that very few of the people who attack transit workers' "generous benefits" would ever make. Other city workers' pensions are in the low 30s. And firefighters' pensions average around $70,000.Ask yourself this: How many times have politicians fallen over each other as they rush, to get the maximum PR value for their own careers, to the site of a fire or a shooting, where a cop or firefighter has died. They stand in front of cameras and microphones and spout the words "the ultimate sacrifice"...but now those very politicians are saying that firefighters or policemen, having survived the day-to-day grind and threats on the job, should not get to have a decent pension so they can live out the rest of their lives in some semblance of dignity and respect.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/its-not-raining-were-gett_b_789676.html

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[stillrockin]

1. I heard him interviewed on Sam Seder's

radio show today. Smart guy.

[sasha031]

2. Thank you, I'll play it later

[bettyellen]

3. i think Obama knows the voters never gave a shit about the deficit when Repubans ran it up but they

do care about him not raising their taxes, and they do care about extending unemployment.

[DJ13]

4. Heres links to part 3 & 4

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/its-not-raining-were-gett_b_790361.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/its-not-raining-were-gett_b_790957.html