Who Works for Whom?

There are two problems with public employees - too many of them getting paid too much.  If existing public employees will not accept lower wages and lower benefits and defined contribution pension plans, it is time to terminate them and hire and train qualified people who will work for lower wages and lower benefits and self fund their pensions. There are over 30 million people in the United States who want to work who do not have jobs. These people will work for reasonable wages and reasonable benefits and reasonable pensions. The hell with the people who think someone owes them wages, benefits and pensions that were determined in a different time under different circumstances and different conditions. Many people want unreasonable wages, benefits and pensions and insist that it is their “right” and they “earned it” and it’s tough that times have changed but, so what; WE have a contract and the hell with you. Send a reminder to the 22 million people employed by local, state and federal governments that 30 million replacements are ready, willing and able. Many of these jobs can be eliminated; the rest can be filled with replacements.  In 1981 President Ronald Reagan, terminated thousand of striking air traffic controllers and banned them from federal government employment.  The planes still flew.  If the planes can fly without the union employees then the local, state and federal governments can replace all their union workers and the country will survive.

Pensioners, retirees and others; take note. Many states have entered into unsustainable contracts with their public employees – teachers, police, administrators, firemen and others. These contracts have pension terms that are very generous. Terms that include retirements after 20 or 25 years “on the job.” Terms that include pension benefits 60, 70 and 80% of their average wages in the last five years of their employment. Many of these terms are forced upon local government entities – cities, villages, townships, counties and school districts. They are forced on them by state law. The payment for the wages, the benefits and the pensions are mandated by state law and the burden of payment of these wages, benefits and pensions is legally imposed upon the taxpayers of the states. This is nonsense. Where did any government determine that it can impose an open liability commitment on its taxpayers? This is greed uncontrolled. This is absolute foolishness. This is criminal. The purpose of law is not to enrich one group of people at the expense of another group of people. The purpose of law is to prevent the greedy enrichment of one group of people at the expense of another. What foolish mentality establishes this form of commitment? Where are the legislators to prevent greedy people who ask for this largesse? Where are the courts to step in and say “NO” to this greed? What is the purpose of elected and hired bureaucrats if they are lining their pockets at the expense of the very people who elect them and pay them? Time for a change. Replacements are ready.

TheFundamentals supports people who want to work and know for whom they work.  It does not support people who think they have are entitled to their jobs and their wages and their benefits and their pensions.

Knowing who you work for.  Hiring replacements. These are American fundamentals.  Let's get back to TheFundamentals.