In the city where the economic collapse of '08 was planned and executed, there the richest denizens, the titans of capital, are demanding that public sector employees take cuts in pay and benefits. It is the exorbitant wages earned by those at the bottom of Gotham's income spectrum, such billionaires as media mogul Mort Zuckerman insist, that are bankrupting the city and state of New York and inhibiting an economic recovery.
Creating animosity within the working class, in this case between public and private employees, is an old strategy. It goes back at least as far as the Roman Republic and the Gracchus family, probably much farther than that.
Ask the average working-class American if he supports free enterprise and he will most likely affirm. Ask the same person how he feels about Wall Street and you might hear invective. Would that I could live long enough to see the day when people figure out that they are the same thing.
http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/24/billionaires-for-the-working-man
