Free health insurance & pension benefits for public employees ...

Uh oh?.looks like someone needs to read something other than Scott Walker talking points?

Here?s a question ? Why should you get your health insurance and pension for free? What makes you so special?

The ?you? Randy Hollenbeck is referring to would be Wisconsin?s public employees.

What?s curious is that I?ve been a public employee for over ten years, and I can?t remember a time where I?ve ever had my health insurance and pension benefits provided to me for free. In fact, the share of my health insurance and pension benefits that I?ve had to pay has steadily risen every year I?ve been a public employee, while my wages have stagnated, failing to keep up with increases in the cost of living. Obviously I can?t speak to whether or not there may have been some public employees who received free health insurance and pension benefits, but the vast majority of public employees that I know have never had free health insurance and pension benefits.

Later in his blog entry, Hollenbeck doubles down on the Republican talking points, saying,

?Furthermore, we will need to offload part of the burden of YOUR benefits off the backs of the taxpayers so you will have to pay a small portion yourself!?.

To borrow a line from Randy Hollenbeck, ?Anti-intellectuals are always demonstrating how desperately they need to invent their own demons to throw stones at,? and in Randy?s case his demons seem to be public employees.

Source: http://bloggingblue.com/2012/02/04/free-health-insurance-pension-benefits-for-public-employees/

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