Doctors' strike 'will be very unpopular' (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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  Jack Herer wrote:
  Of course it's unpopular. Doctors, already on an average wage above £100k, want equally high gold plated pensions, and they don't care if already struggling families, who can only dream of even an OK pension themselves, have to pay for it. They'll even make those hard working people suffer by striking to try and blackmail their way.
  
  It's grossly unfair.
  
  Surely doctors should be protesting about the 6,500 pension holders on a whopping £50k pension in the NHS who aren't even doctors or nurses. Do doctors think that the hard working and struggling families should pay for those obscene NHS pensions as well.
  
  Address all the fat cats in the public sector first, then the public will sympathise with you. Currently all these strikes are protecting the fat cats first and foremost.

  thats it jack race to the bottom. PRAT

  Is that the catch phrase from your union leaders perchance? I've heard "it shouldn't be a race to the bottom" a few times now so I'm guessing so.
  
  It's not about a race to the "bottom". That "bottom" just happens to be the real world where everyone else has to live. Why should there be some gold plated elite who don't have to live in the real world like the rest of us have to, and who selfishly strike if anyone tries to change this unfair system in any way?
  
  If there is a top and a bottom, those in the public sector, milking the public dry with their pensions, are currently at the top. And those in the private sector, struggling, but having to pay someone else's pension, are at the bottom. If it isn't going to be a race to the bottom in this system, then who is going to pay all the millions and millions of people's pensions in the private sector, who are currently paying for someone else's?
  
  There aren't enough mugs in the country to pay for everyone's pensions. All the people in the public sector are taking up all the slack from the millions of mugs in the private sector already. It can't be a race to the top because there are no more mugs. Besides though, it isn't a race to the bottom, it's a race to the real world.
  
  And it isn't a "race" either with it happening over years with all these selfish strikes, it's a slow dragging of a spoilt child digging their heals in as stamp their feet and scream.
  
  We don't want a race to the bottom. We don't want a top and a bottom. We want fairness so there is no top and bottom. That can only happen with those in the public sector living in the real world, like the rest of us have to."
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