We who work in the private sector are the new slaves. Our masters are unionized government bureaucrats. We work every day to pay the taxes that pay the wages and pensions of teachers, professors, inspectors, social workers, environmental fascists, career politicians, and those PennDOT guys who lean on shovels. We are paying the pensions of unionized auto workers in Detroit and even those of the rioting union workers in greedy Greece. It seems like we're contributing to every pension in the world except our own.
State workers are retiring at 55 or younger. Meanwhile, we in the private sector may not be able to retire on meager Social Security until we’re 70, and if Social Security goes bankrupt, perhaps never.
We’ll have to work an extra decade to pay for the early retirements of our state-worker neighbors. As we toil those 10 years, we’ll have to listen to them brag about their new cars, boats, RVs, ATVs, DVDs, HD-TVs, and their trips to Cancun and Aruba. And as they dine in fancy restaurants, we’ll have to subsist on Ramen noodles.
In the southern states before the Civil War, blacks worked their lives away so whites didn’t have to. Today, we in the private sector are working our lives away so those in the public sector don’t have to.
There’s something deliciously ironic about a black man presiding over a nation in which the practice of slavery has been re-introduced. It’s ironic but it isn’t funny.
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