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It's not just political elites, everyone employed by state and federal governments are in a vastly different economic situation than people employed in the priv
by starkfist 16y ago
It's not just political elites, everyone employed by state and federal governments are in a vastly different economic situation than people employed in the private sector.
- hga 16y agoIndeed; here's just the most recent (this morning) ideological but not partisan essay/rant I've come across on this topic, which says that "that federal employees now earn double the compensation of those in the private sector" on average (quoting a Cato Institute guy): http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026436.php http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026436.php That said, it's not universal at the state and local level. In Missouri and my SW corner of it, state and local workers are getting laid off, having the salaries frozen, etc. Again, this is again an "ideological" vs. partisan thing, our new as of 2009 governor who's laid off thousands of state employees is a Democrat. He, the Republican legislature and the state colleges and universities have worked out an agreement whereby if they don't raise tuition they won't get their state funding cut. To tie this back to the original essay, Reagan famously noted that the reason the D.C. suburbs were some of the wealthiest in the nation was "that's where your money is going to".