Getbig.com: American Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure
Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Dos Equis on June 10, 2012, 04:15:21 PM
-
Dang. :-[
Obama campaign plan for private sector? Hire more teachers, firefighters
President Obama's top campaign strategist said Sunday that the country needs to "accelerate" job creation in the private sector -- by hiring more teachers, police and firefighters.
David Axelrod made the comment as he continued to perform damage control for the president, who said Friday during a press conference that the private sector's "doing fine." But Axelrod drew rapid-fire ridicule from conservatives, after he called for more public-sector hiring to address private-sector economic issues.
"The private sector, we need to accelerate job creation in the private sector," Axelrod told CNN's "State of the Union," before adding: "One of the ways that we can do that is putting teachers and firefighters and police back to work because those are good middle-class jobs."
Told that teachers and firefighters are part of the public sector, Axelrod continued to defend his statement. "But that will help accelerate the recovery," Axelrod said.
Axelrod also pointed to a proposed small business tax credit and refinancing program as ways to help the private sector.
The political adviser appeared on two Sunday shows in large part to answer questions about the president's comments Friday, when Obama had to publicly backpedal after initially diagnosing the private sector as "fine."
Axelrod seemed to acknowledge that the private sector still needs help, but argued that it's doing far better than the public sector and continued to press for the president's goal of more teachers and police officers.
Axelrod said the private sector grew by 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, while the public sector lost jobs. He said the president's critics are "more eager to have a debate over an out-of-context clause in his remarks than the substance of what he said."
Republican strategists were closely watching Axelrod's interviews. The Republican National Committee on Twitter accused him of trying to avoid answering questions about Obama's comment, calling the CNN interview "awkward."
"When even your own chief strategist can't defend your comments, it indicates that your assessment of the economy might be wrong," the Romney campaign said in an email.
Meanwhile, the Romney camp put out a blistering new web ad, which features people talking about their struggles in the current economic climate -- and then plays the clip of Obama saying the private sector is "doing fine" three times.
On ABC's "This Week," though, Axelrod accused Romney of responding to the comment by pushing for fewer teachers, police and firefighters.
"I would suggest he's living on a different planet if he thinks that's a prescription for a stronger economy," he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/10/obama-campaign-plan-for-private-sector-hire-more-teachers-firefighters/
-
???
Teachers and firefighters are paid by who?
-
This is the most absurd thing I have heard in a llllloooonnnngggg time.
we already tried this w the first stim bill and it failed miserably!
-
Free Republic
Browse · Search Pings · Mail News/Activism
Topics · Post Article
Skip to comments.
Slaves to the Government Class
Townhall.com ^ | May 24, 2012 | Kyle Olsen
Posted on May 24, 2012 10:33:20 AM EDT by Kaslin
Over the past year, a lot of people have been talking about “the 1%” versus “the 99%.” But if you’re concerned about one class exploiting another for economic gain, that’s the wrong way to look at the problem.
See an EAGnews.org exclusive animation explaining the situation here.
The protesters are right about one thing: there are gross class inequities in America.
There is one class that works more hours per day, more days per year, for more years of their lives. They have less job security, they pay more for health coverage, and their retirements are not guaranteed. Their incomes are determined by their performance, limited by economic reality, and tied to the fortunes of their employers. This is the private-sector producer class.
Part of what private-sector workers produce is taken for the benefit of another class, the government class.
The government class plays by a different set of rules, dictated by unions and implemented by the politicians they help elect. For government union members, income is not determined by job performance, but by how many years they’ve managed to stick around. They’ll work fewer hours, get more vacation time, and make more money than their producer class colleagues.
They’ll get better health coverage, and it’ll cost them less. The government class will retire at an earlier age and with a pension providing a guaranteed income, something fewer than 1 in 10 producer-class workers enjoy.
In Wisconsin, the government class makes up 14% of the population, exploiting the other 86%, the producer class.
The average Wisconsin state employee makes about $70,000 annually in salary and benefits, while the private-sector workers whose taxes pay for it earn about $15,000-a-year less. Talk about income disparity!
The government class is powerful because government employees are members of unions that contribute heavily to political campaigns. And in Wisconsin, no single group funnels more money into politics than teachers unions.
As the producer class struggled with a sluggish economy, Milwaukee public school teachers were rewarded for their political support by getting a 5% pay increase for the current school year.
Compared to the producer class, Milwaukee’s teachers are getting a pretty sweet deal. When school is in session, teachers work almost 4 hours less each week than the standard private sector employee does. And instead of getting the usual two weeks off each year, Milwaukee teachers enjoy nearly 14 weeks vacation. All told, the typical producer-class employee works well over 600 hours a year more than the typical government school employee.
You would think with this workload, total compensation for government teachers would be a lot less than for private-sector workers. But when you add salary, retirement and health benefits, a first-year teacher’s total compensation is almost $56 per contracted hour worked. For a fifth-year teacher, it’s over $60 an hour. A tenth year teacher, more than $66 an hour. And teachers can retire sooner, too, at age 57.
If that sounds generous to you, you’re not alone. Producer-class workers earn less than $735 a week. For a typical 40-hour week, that works out to just over $18 an hour.
Of course, there’s a cost to all this generosity. If you’re in the producer class, you’re working harder than ever to pay for it all. And yet, mobs of government workers have besieged the capital for months, complaining that you’re not working hard enough, that you need to pay even more.
Government employees make up a small sliver of Wisconsin’s workforce, just 14%, and it’s time they stopped pushing the other 86% of us around.
Next time you see government employees demanding that you sacrifice even more for them, remind them that a public servant is supposed to serve the public, not turn the public into their servants.
Fuck Obama and the govt parasites.