Interview with Steven Greenhut, author of “Plunder”
Economic Warrior interviews Steven Greenhut, author of “Plunder How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation.” Public employees have become the new American elite. In the past, government workers earned less, but had better job security and benefits than Americans working in the private sector. Yet today, government workers have vastly superior benefits including pension plans which them to retire as early as 50 with 100 percent or more of their final years salary. The problem goes way beyond finances.
Topics Discussed; the state pension tsunami, CALPERs (California state pension system), the book PLUNDER!
Steven Greenhut is a California-based journalist and columnist who recently joined the Pacific Research Institute, was on the Orange County Register’s Editorial Board for eleven years, and his columns have run in newspapers throughout the country. He is also author of “Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain.” He won the Institute for Justice’s Thomas Paine Award, and is a senior fellow for the Goldwater Institute in Arizona. For more information go to www.pacificresearch.org.
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