As with last week, I was again almost killed at work last night. This time by Karoli of the Crooks and Liars blog.
Her weapon of choice was this line in a post about the disparity of the wage compensation between the public and private sector.
Isn’t it amazing that the federal government has managed to keep pay rates and benefit levels competitive for their employees without breaking the bank?
And she is being completely serious.
Apparently, she missed the day in civics class where they explained that there is no competition for government.
Now that these numbers are starting to reach more and more American taxpayers and the simmer jogs up towards a boil, watching the leftosphere try and defend these princely sums is becoming more and more entertaining. After quickly running over the old “public servant” canards they switched to a new one I’ll paraphrase as “The racist right is attacking unions because minorities use government employment to move up!”
And now they’re just admitting that they think these wages are completely deserved. I predict that this will be transform into “these are Living Wages” by this weekend.