| Public sector wages
Posted: 6/18/2009 4:17:33 PM | Ireland has the highest paid public sector in the world.
http://www.sligochampion.ie/temp/we-have-the-highest-paid-public-servants-in-the-world-1746944.html
Why I do not know, my guess is this is Fianna Fail's way of buying votes. It looks like the wages in the public sector are higher than in the private sector. This is not good to put it mildly. These high wages are pure theft of tax payers money, well any tax is theft really.
In my opinion there should not be any public sector at all but it is not likely that states and local governments will shut down anytime soon. In the meantime they should cut the public sector wages with minimum 30%. | |
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| Public sector wages
Posted: 6/19/2009 6:16:53 AM | OP thats a bit of a sweeping statement - a line from the article also says
'John Hurley gets €368,703 per year. The head of the European Central bank is paid €345,252 per year, the head of the Bank of England gets €283,564 and the head of the US Federal Reserve Bank gets €186,600'.
However the basic public servant, cleaner, secretary etc starts at less than 23,000 per annum - which is nowhere near that rate! | |
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| Public sector wages
Posted: 6/19/2009 2:53:17 PM | I apologise if this is rude, but what an idiotic statement. While there may be problems within Public and Civil Service, yes there is a difference. There are a vast majority of people working there on low salaries. Do you want Garda/Nurses/Teachers/Social Workers/Housing Advisors to take a 30% pay cut.
In my own situation, I am a single Dad who had to fight in the courts for years for access and finally custody of my daughter, born from a one night stand. My amazing girl has being living with me for the last two years and has blossomed. I work fulltime in a Local Authority Housing Office dealing with tenants and applicants. On a daily basis I receive verbal abuse from people who have never worked a day in their lives but they expect everything. I have received it on the street and in the office. Out of my "massive salary" I pay PAYE, PRSI, Income Levy, Pension Levy and Superannuation. On to of that I pay childminder, transport to/from work etc. By the end of it all I'm receive little more than the dole. So please explain to me how I'm robbing tax payers money.
My daughter's mother has never worked. Receives rent allowance for a house owned by her mother, receives legal aid, and numerous other supports. There are so many others in similar situations to her. At one stage the Public Sector wage bill was equal to the Social Welfare Bill but what muppets making statements like yours forget is we are actually doing a job, contributing to society financially and in other ways.
Why not look more into all the services that are provided for by the Public Sector? Why not state if the high wages are gross or after deductions?
Why not compare cost of living standards?
To make wild sweeping statements like that are inflamatory and discriminatory against every hard working person in the public sector. | |
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