Framing The Debate

I am not happy with the way the Budget Repair Bill debate has been framed by Republicans.  It goes something like this:

• Public employees are too highly compensated.
• Public employees make more than you
• Public employees should not make more than you.
• We should take away their ability to bargain so they can't make more than you.

Properly framed, the debate should look like this:

• The state is in fiscal trouble. 
• We value our state employees
• Collective bargaining for anything other than pay will put us back into the mess we are currently in, regardless of the give-backs currently obtained.

Call me crazy.