The Price of Government Employees

One of the world's more pressing problems is sovereign debt.  From Japan to Greece to America, the debts run up by governments are forcing painful choices.But some think we needn't make hard choices.  They think things can go on as before and that government can take on even more debt and start up even more public programs.  Some are unwilling to make any sacrifices; they don't want to give up anything.In America as in Europe, those most averse to change are government employees.  The evidence for this has been seen recently in states trying to get control of their deficits.  Wisconsin is the prime example, where protesting government employees, teachers, students, unionists, and a few anarchists occupied the state Capitol for weeks.The big issue for state employees in Wisconsin was the loss of collective bargaining.  Wisconsin needed to scale back collective bargaining so that it can control runaway benefit costs and so that bad employees can be fired...(Read Full Article)

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