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Old 05-07-2013, 04:00 PM   #148
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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj View Post
Are you suggesting that the public service is not part of the public,
??? I don't understand your point.

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or that they are merely more enlightened than the rest of us? Why should their demands be any greater then those they have chosen to "serve"?
??? Again, who has ever argued that public employees are more enlightened than anyone else? All I have argued is that, absent some compelling justification, they are entitled to the same rights as everyone else. I'm not sure how you turned that into a strawman about "more enlightened" and "their demands be[ing] ... greater than" anyone else's"?

I honestly don't understand what you are arguing. When you are negotiating an employment contract with your employer, and are seeking a wage raise, is that a case of you believing that you are "more enlightened" than your employer? Is that a case of you believing that your demands are greater than those of your employer (sorry, that which you have "chosen to serve")? Of course not. It is bargaining. It happens millions of times every single day all over the world.
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