Readers' Letters, May 21, 2009

Is there class warfare in America

? Of course, there is--and CNBC's Maria Bartiromo and I got into it on the topic yesterday. And I left her a bit speechless--not an easy thing to do.

The back-and-forth came as part of a debate on the absurd notion that public employees are the people to blame for state government budget problems (as opposed to Wall Street/AIG/Citibank and a regressive tax system).

You can see the whole thing here or via a discussion at Working Life.

Jonathan Tasini

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