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To: NOW who wrote (35427)	2/21/2011 1:57:29 AM
From: roguedolphin	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71475

I lived in northern Wisconsin for 5 years and noticed that if you were not a government worker or farmer/dairyman/rancher (?) you were sh$t out of luck trying to make a living. The disparity between the government/public employees and "everyone else" working in the private market in Wisconsin is APPALLING in much of the state. My mom and dad still live up there in Wisconsin and the property tax increases of the last 10-12 years are KILLING them. They need to pay more and more taxes like they "need a hole in the head". I'm for workers rights (especially in the private sector but NOT SO MUCH IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR)... ... BUT THE TAXPAYER NEEDS TO HAVE RIGHTS TOO!!!

To: NOW who wrote (35427)	2/21/2011 10:06:27 AM
From: northface	8 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71475

I am a nurse anesthetist working at a county hospital in Miami. I do not believe in unions, but am in the union for fear of being fired. I am way over paid. I make more money than many of the anesthesiologists. I would work for less, but if the county is stupid enough to over pay me, I will take it. The hospital is bankrupt and begging for money from the county. In addition, in five more years, I will have worked at the hospital for 30 years and will then receive a pension of $9000.00 a month from the state of Florida for the rest of my life. I have paid nothing into the pension. Why do government employees deserve so much more than employees in the private sector?