Monday, June 7, 2010

Who is the American privileged class? Wall Street hedge fund managers? No. Public employees expecting their pension! � Fred Klonsky's blog

Who is the American privileged class? Wall Street hedge fund managers? No. Public employees expecting their pension! � Fred Klonsky's blog

Who is the American privileged class? Wall Street hedge fund managers? No. Public employees expecting their pension!


What a scam. The biggest economic crisis in U.S. history and who gets slammed. Not the Wall Street wheeler-dealers who caused the collapse. It’s state employees who have worked for 30 years expecting a pension when they retire. We’re the greedy ones.

“We have a new privileged class in America,” said Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who rescinded state workers’ collective bargaining power on his first day in office in 2006. “We used to think of government workers as underpaid public