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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-11 10:02 AM
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AP = Asinine Propaganda
Edited on Tue Mar-08-11 10:03 AM by marmar
Check out this piece (of sh*t):




By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press


When Erin McFarlane looks at public workers, she sees lucrative pension benefits she doesn't ever expect to get. And it makes her mad.

"I don't think that a federal employee or government employee is worth any more than anybody else who does their job and does it well," said the Slinger, Wis., woman. She's been working a couple of bartending jobs since January, when she was laid off from her job at a Harley Davidson plant after almost a decade.

She's not alone in seeing public servants as public enemies in some ways.

It's a case of pension envy. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110308/ap_on_re_us/us_benefit_envy




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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-11 10:09 AM
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1. All Propaganda
All the Time
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-08-11 10:10 AM
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2. So, because she isn't educated enough or qualified enough for something other than working
in a plant or bar, no other person in the state should be able to receive wages and benefits? This is the great minds of America.
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