Given all the austerity that's floating around I get that it's perhaps not the right moment, but whenever I hear about how good municipal workers have it I want to tell people to go apply for those goddamn jobs. When my local transit authority went on strike all the local yahoos were bitching about the fact that bus drivers, after some seniority, were paid FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. As I pointed out at the time, there were lovely bus driver job listings on the web page and if anybody thinks they have an awesome deal they can go apply for the jobs. Now apparently THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS
is too much.
