Krugman gets it right in both the pith and the substance of the matter on the overcompensated public sector workers in Wisconsin. Short of it: they are not. This is a must read.
The Contribution Scam
David Cay Johnston has a terrific piece up about the nonsense of comparing government workers to private-sector counterparts by claiming that the government pays for more of their benefits. As he says,
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