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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (176)	8/31/2011 12:33:57 PM
From: cnyndwllr	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

You can cut lots out of federal spending but the problem is that so much of it is entrenched over years of pork politics that it would shake the economy into a deep recession, or worse, so now is not the time. And why do you focus so strongly on government workers? I would guess that you'd be surprised at how many of them perform well in tasks that need doing. Why not look at all the corporate welfare spending that awards huge contracts to companies to build star wars fictional defense systems or other defense projects where the contractor is way too sophisticated and way too connected to the congress and they milk money right out of our pockets and into theirs? And, finally, why was it that so many of us bought into the argument that public workers were getting paid too well compared to private workers and that the just thing was to cut them back? Why didn't we see that the just thing was to allow private workers some tools to allow them to take a bigger chunk out of the cut of, say, management executives, in order to reverse the trend which has seen the wages of working men fall over 25%, in real dollars, since the late 1960's? And if you cut federal spending, don't think that's going to take away the need to raise taxes to support education, infrastructure and much more. Ed