Lawmakers Pander To Public Employees: Cut the Cord

THE DOCTOR IS IN _____________

LAS VEGAS- Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

What is it going to take to wake up the lawmakers in Washington to put the brakes on the obscene salaries and pensions that are being paid to public employee's across the nation.

Moody's, one of the most recognized ratings companies in the world recently warned the world leaders about the situation but it appears the advice is falling on deaf ears. Moody's said that France, Germany, the United States and Britain have to drastically control their spending on public employee pensions and health care in order to keep their debt burdens stable over the long term.

Folks, these countries are going bankrupt just because they choose to pander to the powerful public employee unions.for the sake of votes.

Here in America many of our cities and states are on the verge of going bust. The outrageous salaries, pensions, retirements and health plans given to these public employee's that the private sector worker is on the hook for should be stopped in it's tracks. There are also other lucrative benefits that these public employee's enjoy. Here are a few: An annual guaranteed cost of living increase that iesfrom 4 percent to 14 percent; bonuses, step increases and usually free medical for life for the employee and their families.

In today's economy there is no one in the private sector that can even hope to enjoy these types of benefits. The public sector employee have these guarantee's built into their union contracts and the worker in the private sector (John and Jane ) six-pack has no guarantee's. John and Jane are paying the public employee's mortgage's and health care while having problems paying their own.

Year after year the lawmakers in our cities and states continue to give the public employee's the benefits mentioned above because they want the union vote. They ignore the consequences and the fact that if they continue these payouts their entire state is in jeopardy.

People, the worst thing that ever happened in America is when public employee's were allowed to unionize and form these powerful cliques. The inequity, parity and inequality between salaries, retirements , pensions and health care of public employees versus the average every day worker in the private sector is over the top. The private sector is supporting the public employees and their families throughout their entire life.

I would suggest that politicians and lawmakers across the country start:

* saying" no" to the public employee union demands .
* cut out the guaranteed cost of living increases.
* cut out the bonuses and the free health plans for the public employees and their families.
* put all public employees into the same retirement plan that private sector workers have to depend on, which is a 401(k) pension.
* make certain public employees bargain in public for the sake of transparency . They should not be allowed to make deals in secret.

If these public employees do not want to share the pain with the private sector worker they should be fired and the city, county and state lawmakers should start over again with reasonable salaries and reasonable contracts. There are no shortage of applicants for public employee jobs. You can see it in the lines of the thousands of applicants for only a few positions in every city, every day.

My advice to the lawmakers. Do the right thing and restructure the public employees salaries, pensions and retirements.- And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com