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Union-Negotiated Sick Day Compensation System Under Fire in New Jersey

TRENTON, N.J. – Take a look inside a typical public employee union contract – including teacher contracts – and you’ll find provisions that give public servants a payout for any unused sick or personal leave time they have banked.
Sometimes the payouts come incrementally, like at the employees’ 10th anniversary. More often they come at retirement. The payments are almost always based on the employees’ current or final salary, rather than the amount they were making when they banked the unused day off.

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Scott Walker: Public Sector Unions and Big Government Destroy Jobs for Young People

Since the Obama administration took office, youth unemployment (now around 17.4 percent) has gone up faster and stayed higher than any other major demographic.
Thanks unions! Especially public sector unions!

Public sector unions live on government spending. Government spending sucks money out of the private sector and into the heavily unionized public sector—killing private sector jobs. The few jobs that actually come from the public sector rarely go to young people because of union seniority protections. Any jobs left in the private sector tend to go to recently unemployed older workers who are becoming more willing to work for less and take starter jobs.

Governor Scott Walker echoed this message in his speech to over a hundred young people at Young America’s Foundation’s West Coast Leadership Conference at the Reagan Ranch. After his speech, he sat down with me for an interview to explain how his budget reforms in Wisconsin are helping young people.

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Connecticut Deemed the ‘Sinkhole’ of the Nation

According to the Institute for Truth in Accounting (IFTA), Connecticut has been identified as the top financial “sinkhole” state in the nation. IFTA, a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization that works for greater accounting transparency across all levels of government and business, reports that the Constitution state is at the top of a list of five states which are in the worst financial position. According to the organization’s Financial State of the States report, Connecticut has $29.4 billion worth of assets, but only $10.1 billion are available to pay $63.4 billion of bills as they come due. In addition, each Connecticut taxpayer’s financial burden is $41,200.

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Yeah, how about those poor public sector workers, huh?

Could I please see a show of hands as to who is actually simple enough to believe that the poor old public sector employee’s just need their unions to make sure they get a fair shake? Seriously, how many are actually that simple? Oh! That many? It’s open season gang! Time to thin the herd, the stupid have overpopulated again.

Behold, from the USA Today: Wisconsin one of 41 states where public workers earn more. That would be earning more than the private sector. You know, their bosses. You, me, John and Jane Doe. The people who work hard to redistribute our wealth to them. What do we get? The satisfaction of knowing that we are chumps. That’s what we get. Time to make a change.

Wisconsin is one of 41 states where public employees earn higher average pay and benefits than private workers in the same state, a USA TODAY analysis finds.

Let me see another show of hands by all the dumb bastards out there that don’t believe that the unions and their public sector employee’s are anything but greedy.

The unions need to be broken, salaries and benefits need to be cut.

What do you suppose would happen if that were done? Those public workers refuse to show up for work? Not a problem, in this economy they are easily replaceable. Do you know how many millions are unemployed? And of those, do you know how many would be grateful to get a job like that, even at a reduced rate from what their predecessors were getting?

I say go for it. Get rid of the over payed public sector flunky. I don’t have a problem with that at all. Let’s get it done and replace the greed with the grateful, and reward those folks based on merit, not the threat of a strike.