Obama to governors: Stop vilifying public employees! « Hot Air

Obama to governors: Stop vilifying public employees! « Hot Air: "Barack Obama addressed the nation’s governors today with sympathy over budgetary crises, but a warning not to solve their shortfalls by infringing on the rights of public employees. He also scolded governors for vilifying and denigrating PEUs, which raises the question of whether Obama has bothered to look at the protests in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Besides, the governors in question are mainly fighting to limit collective bargaining rights to a standard that the federal government prohibits for its own employees."

The hypocrisy on Obama's part, of course, is that Federal Government employees have fewer "rights" (less collective bargaining power) than what is proposed by the States.

Of course, he's counting on the fact that most people won't know that...