THE PUBLIC PAYROLL ALWAYS RISES

As the recession hits home, all across America businesses and families are having to make hard decisions about what not to buy this year, it's business as usual for New York's public payrolls. [snip]

• The city reached an estimated record this June 30 of 313,965 employees on the public dime, according to the Mayor's office.
• That's an increase of more than 40,000 public workers in a year when Wall Street has been enduring historic losses and laying off tens of thousands of people.

Like most of his predecessors, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been reluctant to challenge the public-employee unions that drive ever-larger public employment. Now, amid the current downturn, he is once again talking about a property-tax increase and a new commuter tax...

[labor unions are parasitical to our society - public sector unions doubly so as they don't even have the tempering aspect of competition {as Detroit's 'big three' automakers are in the process of learning}]

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