The ED Show - Romney camp defends cuts to public service jobs

[Galraedia]

[RC]

1. This says what I have been saying for years

Public Sector employes spend money that keeps the economy going. Cut the public sector employes and there will be less money on Main Street.

Also Teachers, Police and Firemen are part of big and wasteful government the Republicans want to drown in their bathtub? Not hardly. They are a vital part of our society, not money sucking parasites.
Why don't they, the Republicans, look at our military, the Department of Defense and the money they spend, if they want to rein in BIG government.

[maddiemom]

2. Great insights here:

Forty years ago when American industry was still providing great wages and benefits without a college education, teachers were getting little remuneration for their college degrees. Smaller town cops were doing no better and firefighters were mostly local volunteers (still are). Educators were considered foolish by many of their students for spending money on education when they could earn more as laborers right out of high school. But insightful parents knew better. Educated insight that this wouldn't remain the case was hard to sell, beyond going for higher paying professional degrees to those who could afford it (way more back then). I've never believed this was a long term plot by modern robber barons, more an instinctive natural progression of human greed. Now the "divide and conquer" strategy is tragically working. Instead of the lower/middle class citizen feeling they deserve better, they're resenting and opposing those who are still achieving what used to be the "American (achievable) Dream."