Public sector employees seem to think they should be exempted from belt-tightening everyone else is subject to under the Obama economy. Obama thinks so, too. Most of the stimulus money went to shore up public sector employees salaries and perks.
Half the country is unemployed, but these special people are indignant that Walker asked them to start contributing a tiny amount of their salaries to their own pensions — 5.8 percent, up from zero percent — and a little bit more for their own health insurance, from a measly 6.2 percent to 12.4 percent of their salaries.