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To: ajtj99 who wrote (244023)	4/13/2010 5:39:29 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

You are vastly uninformed. Cause I prepare a whole lot of those tax returns for the people you are refering too. And I know what they make and don't make.

To: ajtj99 who wrote (244023)	4/13/2010 6:57:55 PM
From: marcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"...medical retirement benefits..." what is your source for this? i requested a source when you addressed education previously, but can't recall receiving one. unfortunately, friedman's notion "crisis..actual or perceived" has been the education play for far too long: pretend-a-crisis. there's much too much harmful bs being spread by privateers. the debate about public sector vs. private sector compensation is much more complex than comparison of the mean average. one should compare apples to apples, match employees appropriately: private sector attorneys to public sector attorneys, private sector scientists vs. public sector scientists, private sector technology management vs. public sector tech management, etc. otherwise, the average is likely to be a poor comparison and lead to faulty conclusions. the following article suggests that this happened in a study of washington employees and that lower level employees are paid more in the public sector, while higher level employees are paid less in the public sector: "...government and private-sector work forces are composed very differently. Washington state's payroll, for instance, includes relatively more high-earning occupations, such as educators and finance specialists, and relatively fewer low-earning occupations, such as wait staff and retail clerks..." seattletimes.nwsource.com 44% may be conveniently inaccurate.