It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.