This AP article brought to you by Koch Industries. Anger brewing against public employees!!!!

[bushmeister0]

From the article:

"Barbara Davis, a retiree from Cherry Hill, N.J., has been watching public workers in rallies in Madison, Wis., as well as Trenton. She says the protesters are wrong about tightening benefits hurting the middle class.

'I'm sorry, but what they're doing is telling off the middle class,' said Davis, 76, and a co-chairwoman of the Cherry Hill Area Tea Party. 'The middle-class people don't get all the goodies that they do.' {Because school teachers and firefighters are not middle class, they're the fat cats.}

At its heart, the issue is this: Some public workers get a sweet deal compared to other workers. And it's taxpayers who pay for it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110308/ap_on_re_us/us_benefit_envy

Naturally, the writer of this story had to immediately seek out the nearest available teabagger for their enlightened opinion. (I'm assuming Ms. Davis is also outraged about all the benefits she's currently receiving from the taxpayers.)

After all the "outrage," further down the article, long after the average teabagger has stopped reading and posted it to the Freeper-ville gazette, you find this . . .

"National data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms that public-sector workers do better when it comes to pensions and benefits.

As of last September, professional and management workers in the private sector were making $34.91 in hourly salary; public sector professionals made $33.17 an hour.

Olivia Mitchell, a professor of insurance and risk management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, says the data isn't perfect. It doesn't compare workers with the same education or experience levels, and it covers a broad range of jobs. Also, she said, it doesn't take into account that about one-fourth of public workers aren't covered by Social Security."

Whoopsies, I wonder how much that might inform the debate? But screw that, we're just angry and want to drag everyone down into the third world wage slavery we're in. Once no one has any benefits and we're all making $7 an hour, America will be back to the good old days.

[EFerrari]

1. AP is basically a spamming outfit now for the right wing media. n/t

[blm]

3. Has been since the 90s.

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[MadBadger]

2. Anger Brewing...based on one bitter person.

[louis-t]

4. One, bitter, misinformed, ignorant person.

[GoCubsGo]

5. And, note her age.

Not saying all people in their 70s are like that, by any means. But, a substantial number of people in her age group are ardent PoxNews watchers. Sounds to me like she's just parroting the bile she hears every day from them.

[Flubadubya]

6. And, note her affiliation...

...co-chairwoman of the Cherry Hill Area Tea Party :puke: