"GOP VS. DEMS" BECOMING "WORKERS VS. GOVERNMENT WORKERS"

Professor Reynolds linked to an article by RYAN SAGER in the NYPOST:

[Sager] noted this morning, the strike opened up a class war -- just not the one the union was expecting. "[T]here is a class confrontation of a kind going on — but it's not between rich and poor. It's between the working class and what might be called the government-worker class. The gap between the two groups has been growing for a while."

I would like to add that the "government workers" (like NEA teachers, and AFSCME white collar bureaucrats, and SEIU etc) are PAID FROM TAXES and are also HUGE supporters of the Democrat Party. They are perhaps the strongest backers of the party - in money, right after the Left-wing billionaires like Soros, Lewis, and Heinz-Kerry. And they might contribute the most to the Democrats when one takes into account manpower hours during campaigning and their get out the vote efforts.

This is OBVIOUSLY one reason why the Democrats FAVOR BIGGER GOVERNMENT AND INCREASING GOVERNMENT SPENDING: It's a PAYOFF their supporters.

In this light, it's OBVIOUS that the "government employeee union"/Democrat Party alignment nothing more than a self-serving "AXIS FOR TAXES" and that this is why the AXIS nearly always favors more government programs and higher taxes: in order to pay for higher wages and more perks for MORE government workers/union members.

(This AXIS has been a Democrat stronghold since the days of Tammany hall, but NEVER before did it so strongly reflect GOVERNMENT WORKERS as opposed to blue-collar workers.)

The GOP, on the other hand, favors LOWER TAXES, CUTTING GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND SHRINKING THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT. The GOP is increasingly the party of TAXPAYERS, the self-employed and blue-collar workers.

Because there are more taxpayers than "workers who are paid through taxes," this way of looking at the divide greatly favors the GOP. KEN MEHLMAN: ARE YOU LISTENING!? here's a campaign slogan: "STOP THE AXIS FOR TAXES. VOTE GOP!"

UPDATE: MORE BACKLASH TO THE AXIS FOR TAXES HERE - an unlikely/unexpected source - THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY!

UDATE #2: The NYTIMES has a fact-filled article on the scale and scope of the impending crisis in government labor obligations. A MUST READ. Here's an excerpt:

Fast-rising pension costs for government employees - the issue that helped set off this week's transit strike in New York City - are a problem confronting cities, counties and states nationwide, causing many budgetary experts to predict a wave of painful fights over efforts to scale back government retirement programs.

This is a ticking time-bomb - fiscally AND politically. The LOUSY and CORRUPT labor deals which politicians running governments made is coming back to haunt us all.

If the Democrat Party stands by the "tax-getters" (the government labor unions listed above), AS THEY MUST - because these unions are their base - then they will get HAMMERED at the polls. I hope.

[ASIDE: toady's Democrat Party is reallu something: one half tax-getters the other half McGovernite-Leftie loons. Or "THE AXIS FOR TAXES" meets "THE AXIS OF APPEASEMENT". SHEESH!]