Public-sector employees are the new fat cats
May 10, 2010 Filed in: Unions
Column: Fred Barnes, WashingtomExaminer.com
John Edwards was right.
There are two Americas, just not his two (the rich and powerful
versus everyone else). The real divide today is, on one side, the
20 million people who work for state and local governments and the
additional 3 million who've retired with fat pensions. On the
other, the rest of us, about 280 million Americans. In short,
there's a gulf between the bureaucrats and the people…