"It is beyond appalling that these transit workers, whose salaries derive from working stiffs who tend to earn less on average than the members of the TWU, have been getting a free health-care ride while the rest of us have had to pony up. To complain about having to pay a relative pittance toward their own health care is, quite simply, disgusting."
Now, I'm not sticking up for the transit workers in New York. Despite the god-awful jobs they have and the sicknesses they have FROM these jobs and the danger and lunacy of dealing with millions of NY'ers each and every day, they make a decent enough salary. But it pisses me off when a white collar guy like Podhoretz jumps all over blue collar guys, the same blue collar guys he earns two to three times more money a year than. Why is it that these ultra-conservatives, most who wouldn't know one end of a workingmans tool from another, have so many problems with those who work their health and youth away from backbreaking jobs. They ain't smart enough so they shouldn't earn enough? A political column writer is more valuable than a bus driver or sanitation worker? The old canard that entertainers, which after all is what Podhoretz is, should always earn more than doers? If the columnists of America went on strike would we care?
And Podhoretz mentioning working-stiffs as if he's a member of the working class is, quite simply, disgusting.
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