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Originally Posted by psicodude
You have blamed public employees for the budget issues several times in this thread. You have claimed that they make disproportionately more money than private sector employees in this thread and the facts say otherwise. The truth is that the two sectors are very close when it comes to compensation. True, the public sector numbers don't include benefits such as pensions, but the private numbers also include a ton of people making minimum wage which brings the average down.
The point here (which was articulated perfectly by CliffFletcher) is that blaming public sector employees for this mess is wrong. Regardless of which sector you work in, the fact remains that we all reaped the benefits of the oil industry for a lot of years, and now the time has come to actually pay for it. Both private and public equally.
If anyone thinks that public sector employees will get out of this mess without a scratch, then they are kidding themselves. The minute those contracts are done they are going to take a big roll-back.
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I posted a link to an entire report showing exactly how much more public sector employees are making compared to their private sector counterparts, if you care to read it go ahead but stop making baseless accusations.
Your 'facts' confirm that the public wage average is higher than the private before counting unpaid benefits, where the public employees are even further ahead. If in fact it is true that no public employees make minimum wage doesn't matter... we should likely have some positions at that rate but the unions would never allow it.
Thus far, the private sector and the average taxpayer has borne the brunt of provincial overspending and mismanagement. It's time for the public sector to take some responsibility and acknowledge the huge rise in public salaries is unsustainable and increased spending is not a solution our current problems.