Phil Moffett’s Gubernatorial campaign manager David Adams was on TV a couple of days ago defending the taxpayers of Kentucky against some rallying public union supporters organized by out of towners. Adams told wkyt, “We now have government employees making significantly more than the taxpayers who are paying their salaries”. I find it significant that wkyt would be interested in the perspective of Phil Moffett on this issue. Of course, I have my own view of public unions, but first I have a couple of questions for the reader. How many of you approve of the authority of members of Congress to set their own pay? I would like to see a poll on this sometime. My guess is the results would be as low as whatever the job approval of Congress has been lately. Pretty low I suppose. Okay, here’s my next question. Assuming you don’t approve of Congress voting themselves raises, then why would you ever approve of public unions? It is the same deal, only worse because you cannot vote the public employees out if you dislike their job performance. Now to my opinion. We should find a way to cut both the compensation of our legislators and our public employees. It should be politically wise to do so, if we accept the “shared sacrifice” concept, plus it would do more to get Kentucky out of our $42billion dollar debt hole. Now I could vote for that. Maybe I should contact the Phil Moffett campaign and see what they think.
-Michael Maggard --Concerned Citizen
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