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A recent attack on your job and pensions appears in the Oct 25 edition of the Spokesman Review out of Spokane, Washington. The headline? “Public unions want moon, sweetened pensions, too.”
The piece was submitted by an organization called The Washington Policy Center. These so-called think-tanks are everywhere. The Washington Police Center is just one among hundreds if not thousands of organizations funded by wealthy business people pushing “free market” solutions which means cutting taxes, starving the government and drowning it in the bathtub in the infamous words of Grover Norquist. “Privatization” In your world that means they don’t want you employed by a state, county, city or town. They want these entities out of business and you working for a private security company with no collective bargaining rights, no pensions, lousy health insurance, and no job security.
Everytime these creeps have an op ed piece, the police association needs to respond with their op-ed piece. Make friends with a respected economist at a well regarded university who can write a rebuttal or give you the facts to write it yourself. Privatization of traditional government functions – education, public safety, corrections, public works, etc. – has been a disaster and the facts are on your side. Or better yet, call a pres conference to respond to the opinion piece, have some record it and send it to PubSecAlliance and we will get it up on the site.
Read the opinion piece from the Washington Policy Center to see what we’re up against.
See The Daily show’s hysterical take on Grover Norquist and his group Americans for Tax Reform.