Obama Teaching Our Children Well

The president says lobbyists will be flushed from the system but his proposals are driven by public employee union support.  Unions saddled local, state and the federal government with unsustainable pension plans and unresponsive bloated workforces.  When the president speaks of shared responsibility and sacrifice, he talks only to the private sector.  He rails against the AIG bonuses but says nothing of public employee pension plans that pay more than 100 percent of the employee’s highest year’s salary or allows them to retire at 55 with a smaller payment.  In the future,  Civil Self Service  may be all that is left for U.S. workers.  What happens when there is no private sector to pay for the public sector?