Lee Enterprises Wants to Cut Post-Dispatch Wages by 25 Percent

• I left my waders at home this morning, so I'm reluctant to step into this tangential swamp of a debate. I will say this, though, "oh wonderful" writes a wicked kicker. LOL.

• next thing you know, tea partiers will be protesting outside post offices, county courthouses, and local parks over the "outrageous" pay that government employees make. Instead of wall street fatcats, they want to cut the salary of fran the court clerk and steve the lawn mower. I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't piss off postal workers if I were you.

• Nonsense, Public Sector workers make MORE (not less) than Private Sector workers ... say who ? ...say a recent report from the US Gov't Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• Hey fed up, maybe you should actually learn about what civil servants make. The salaries are far from exorbitant and much lower than private sector parallels. A starting salary can be as low as $18,000 in city government in St. Louis, and department heads max out around $60,000. Compare that to corporations. And the jobs are thankless due to a public that bashes government employees but doesn't apply the same standard to just-as-ineffectual private sector counterparts.

• Quoting ..."The St. Louis Newspaper Guild reports that Post-Dispatch owner Lee Enterprises wants to cut wages 15 percent in the first year of a new contract and another 5 percent in both the second and third years of the agreement. The company also wants to eliminate retiree health care -- this after Lee Enterprises announced in December that it would halt such benefits for many former workers." This is going on EVERYWHERE across the country ... EXCEPT in the Public Sector. Out Taxes would be lower if Civil Servants shared some of this pain.

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