Wages are not the cosmic issue -- benefits promised today but paid 30 years from now, THAT is the problem.

Obama video hits Romney over teacher, firefighter funding  By Justin Sink - 06/09/12 02:11 PM ET  /  The Hill

"He wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people," Romney says.

The ad concludes by claiming "Romney economics" would lead to fewer teachers, firefighters, and police officers. . . . . . . .

Editor's notes:  

While the Marxist Media will support Obama in presenting Romney as someone who does not care about police protection, fire prevention and the education of our children,  the fact of the matter is this:  Obama only "cares" when those involved belong to a union.  

Understand that all three categories are public worker unions.  Mitch Daniels,  the very popular and retiring governor of Indiana,  eliminated collective bargaining for public union workers on his first day in office and told Chris Wallace (FoxNews Sunday - June 10) that he did not believe public workers should be unionized at all.  

In the end,  Romney's comments must be considered in the context of a recessionary period and the fact that benefits owed to union retirees now totals well over a trillion dollars . . . . . . . .  . some say as much as 2.5 trillion.  The truth of the matter is this,  public sector unions exceeded taxpayers' ability to pay for their benefit packages years age.  

Last Tuesday,  Americans living in the State of Wisconsin and the cities of San Jose and San Diego (both cities are in California,  both heavily "Democrat" in their political leanings),  sent a message to their individual unions  -  "stop with your insane demands for more and more benefits."    When one considers both wages and benefits,  the fact of the matter is this:  what is "unfunded" can never be wages.  "Wages" are paid out now,  "today."  If a city does not have the money,  now,  something happens immediately to "fix" that problem.  "Benefits"  are solely responsible for the intractable financial crisis faced in this day and time  because they are negotiated in the present for a time 10, 20, 30 years into the future . . . . . . . . and who on earth can predict the future?  It is  this inability to lay hold of the future,  to give an order that "good times" continue,  to pretend that "benefit affordability" on an increasing curve,   be a "constant" and predictable factor,  that is killing our ability as a nation. Wages are a "now" consideration,  benefits are a demand on future economic trends and who can predict the future?  To continue to believe that this very issue is not the problem is wrong, bordering on stupid wrong.      

But,  when did "stupid" every put down an Utopian fantasy?