Only Public Sector Layoffs are "Cynical"

NewsNM note - After more than two years of devastating job losses in virtually every industry in the private sector, the chickens are starting to come home to roost in the fat, bloated, and lethargic public sectors in every state. In typical fashion, editors at Progressive Magazine express the fervent desire that the least productive group of workers in society (public employees) be rendered OFF LIMITS to the same sorts of economic down cycles that damage all other participants in working society. Below is a portion of the ramblings of a Marxist dreamer. Progressive Editor Matthew Rothschild waxes eloquent on the injustice of government employees sharing the tough times like everyone else....

Matthew Rothschild

Progressive.org - The attack is cynical in so many ways. First, as McEntee noted, “The problem in the economy has not been created by public workers. It was created by Wall Street.” Second, it’s not as though any public sector workers are getting filthy rich like the Wall Street bankers who got bailed out and are now back to bathing in ridiculous bonuses. Third, the attack on public sector workers is an attack on the idea that there should be a decent middle class in this country. If everyone’s wages and benefits have to be reduced to those offered by the stingiest private sector boss, you can kiss the middle class goodbye. Read full column here:

Only Public Sector Layoffs are "Cynical"