Talk about desperation. I have never seen anything like this before. These people know that the government is struggling and that the only way they can save their jobs is to impose a bigger burden on someone else:
As Mish says, this is not a smart strategy for government employees. They are basically saying that they are entitled to other people’s money and that the government can just raise taxes anytime in order to pay them. Nothing could be further from the truth. Government knows that raising taxes is likely to be a political death sentence. At the same time I have empathy for the government workers involved. They don’t realize it but they have been captured by the statist welfare system which today includes a ridiculous number of unneeded government positions. How many unneeded jobs? This could be an indicator:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/sec-pornography-employees-spent-hours-surfing-porn-sites/story?id=10452544
Government jobs ensure loyalty to the government. It would not surprise me to eventually see battle lines drawn within the US population between free economy workers and government workers.
