American hero thrashed...

[The Dharma Bum]

public service should be non-rivalrous and non-excludable

[The Comrade]

[The Dharma Bum]

wow

[The Comrade]

if people can't earn a fair wage for a public sector job then the government has no right deciding what people should earn in the private sector. it's pretty clear, dharma.

[The Dharma Bum]

when the minimum wage includes a 135K annual stipend for retirement that argument would valid

this subject represents what government officials pay themselves, a beat cop wouldn't get that deal, while the minimum wage is half as much as the the lowest paying jobs available

so unless you are willing to let workers control their workplace and decide their wages democratically shut the f**k up about it. There's no difference between making $10 an hour with a democratic president and making $10 an hour with a republican president.

[exploited]

Dharma just employed the same logic that prevents me from keeping my house clean all the time.

"WELL IF YOU AREN'T GOING TO CLEAN EVERYTHING WHY BOTHER WITH THE LIVING ROOM!?!?!!?!?!?!"

And then nothing happens.

[The Dharma Bum]

lol

you aren't talking about cleaning anything up though, you are talking about paying a high ranking government official an outrageously generous retirement package, which does nothing at all to address the labor situation in any way

get a clue

[The Dharma Bum]

"Hey I bet if we give congress another pay hike it will help the American worker!!!"

that's your logic

[exploited]

It isn't supposed to address the larger labour issue. It merely handles one facet of it, namely public employees.

You are simply playing ideological dress up with other people's points, as per usual.

[The Dharma Bum]

oh bullshit, you are the one who tried to make some executive's golden parachute into something to do with "fair wages"