The Ignorant Investor

When Erin McFarlane looks at public workers, she sees lucrative pension benefits she doesn't ever expect to get. And it makes her mad. "I don't think that a federal employee or government employee is worth any more than anybody else who does their job and does it well," said the Slinger, Wis., woman. She's been working a couple of bartending jobs since January, when she was laid off from her job at a Harley Davidson plant after almost a decade.

Doesn't make a lot of sense for Jane Sixpack to get mad at public workers when America's wealthy are the ones getting rich off her pain. She's falling for the same "divide and conquer" strategies that the wealthy have used since colonial times to keep workers from voting for policies that favor the poor and middle classes.