Worthy or Unworthy
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Lately, there have been some fellow contemporaries who have asked why I have not written a letter to the editor for a while. My answer to this question is that sometimes life takes its toll on a person and at times it seems a person is lucky to have enough energy for a meaningful thought.
However, though I am sure this is more than likely the story of most citizens in this county who labor day in and day out as wage slaves.
No doubt, there have been situations going on in the political realm as of late that have for some relative reason or another got my attention, consequently, back when our president was first introducing his new jobs bill was one such experience.
I remember one night as I was watching the news, our president was talking about his jobs plan and putting people back to work.
However, though there was something in his speech that kind of caught my attention, and that something was that the only ones he talked about putting back to work were teachers, cops and firefighters.
Well, the first thing that came to my mind was: Yeah, that is just what we need, more teachers to teach the impoverished, more cops to suppress the already suppressed, and more firefighters well, I guess to shine all those big red trucks. Nevertheless, about all I can figure is that these groups of people must have plenty of lobbyist and special interest groups in Washington.
Ron Lieber, in his work titled “Battle Looms over Huge Costs of Public Pensions,” talks about how there is a class war going on in our society between the haves and the have nots. He also says that the haves are retirees who were once state or municipal workers who have their seemingly guaranteed and ever-escalating monthly pension benefits, furthermore he states that the have nots are the vast majority of citizens in this county who will work until they die paying for the have’s amenities.
Also, Jonathan Cohn, in his work titled, “How Public Employees Are the New Welfare Queens”, talks about how excessive public employee pensions exemplify the greed of unions (special interest groups) and inefficiency of government (which agreed to pay them).
Cohn goes on to say that unions represent around 37 percent of public sector workers, compared to only 7 percent of private sector workers, however he also states that one of the few exceptions to the public-private compensation differential seems to be the auto workers (special interest) and their relatively rich benefits.
Myself, I believe in the right of citizens to collective bargaining. Without such a right we would be transgressing back the 1920s (or to the days of lords and vassals) when a worker had no rights and was at the mercy of the elite, no less complete subjugation and manipulation.
On the other hand, I also believe we have special interest groups who have created a society which consists of citizens who have been labeled as either worthy or unworthy.
Bennie Hively
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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Lately, there have been some fellow contemporaries who have asked why I have not written a letter to the editor for a while. My answer to this question is that sometimes life takes its toll on a person and at times it seems a person is lucky to have enough energy for a meaningful thought.
However, though I am sure this is more than likely the story of most citizens in this county who labor day in and day out as wage slaves.
No doubt, there have been situations going on in the political realm as of late that have for some relative reason or another got my attention, consequently, back when our president was first introducing his new jobs bill was one such experience.
I remember one night as I was watching the news, our president was talking about his jobs plan and putting people back to work.
However, though there was something in his speech that kind of caught my attention, and that something was that the only ones he talked about putting back to work were teachers, cops and firefighters.
Well, the first thing that came to my mind was: Yeah, that is just what we need, more teachers to teach the impoverished, more cops to suppress the already suppressed, and more firefighters well, I guess to shine all those big red trucks. Nevertheless, about all I can figure is that these groups of people must have plenty of lobbyist and special interest groups in Washington.
Ron Lieber, in his work titled “Battle Looms over Huge Costs of Public Pensions,” talks about how there is a class war going on in our society between the haves and the have nots. He also says that the haves are retirees who were once state or municipal workers who have their seemingly guaranteed and ever-escalating monthly pension benefits, furthermore he states that the have nots are the vast majority of citizens in this county who will work until they die paying for the have’s amenities.
Also, Jonathan Cohn, in his work titled, “How Public Employees Are the New Welfare Queens”, talks about how excessive public employee pensions exemplify the greed of unions (special interest groups) and inefficiency of government (which agreed to pay them).
Cohn goes on to say that unions represent around 37 percent of public sector workers, compared to only 7 percent of private sector workers, however he also states that one of the few exceptions to the public-private compensation differential seems to be the auto workers (special interest) and their relatively rich benefits.
Myself, I believe in the right of citizens to collective bargaining. Without such a right we would be transgressing back the 1920s (or to the days of lords and vassals) when a worker had no rights and was at the mercy of the elite, no less complete subjugation and manipulation.
On the other hand, I also believe we have special interest groups who have created a society which consists of citizens who have been labeled as either worthy or unworthy.
Bennie Hively
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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