Well, MSNBC has continued its plunge into hyping government pensions as the cause of state government financial problems with its major story article, Super-sized pensions, and a doomsday scenarioarticle.
It's no wonder that most people actually believe that public servants are overpaid and that the Government itself is the problem, when we continue to get outrageous examples of extreme government compensation by the MSM. All, with the undocumented assertion that most government compensation must therefore be just as outrageous. In the fantasy world of the MSM, the city of Bell, CA has become the symbol of all government compensation.
For those interested in the truth about "overcompensated public employees" I offer the following study, Debunking the Myth of the Overcompensated Public Employee.
As usual, when the facts are revealed, we learn a far different story. The truth of the matter is that the rich have been stealing us blind for the last 30 years and the system can no longer function on borrowing from the middle class to pay off the top 1%. The actual remedy to all our problems has to begin with a real progressive tax of the wealthy elite. Blaming the last vestige of the middle class remaining, the civil servant, will not even begin to solve the problem of the shrinking middle class and lack of decent paying jobs, not mention actually providing a real resolution to state budget shortages.