'Do you support Wednesday's strike?' poll

I'm a public sector worker but as a physiotherapist I have the option of switching to private sector as and when I choose...or emigrating which is looking a better option! I'm getting really annoyed with the private vs public arguments and general !!!!!ing. Surely we're all on the same side. We're all being shafted. Here's the facts about MPs pensions:

A funded final salary scheme (their reforms for public sector are career average)
Normal retirement age is 65, minimum age is 55 (for us with very physically demanding professions it's going to be 68)
MPs can contribute either 11.9%, 7.9% or 5.9% of their £65,738-a-year salary (hard life!)
From April payments are now increased in line with the consumer prices index Accrual is capped at two-thirds of an MP's final salary
The coalition agreement included a commitment to consult with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority on "how to move away from the general final salary pension system" ('"commitment to consult" menas nothing)
28.7% taxpayers contribution added to their own contributions

Public sector and private sector workers all get way, way less than this and despite their 'reforms' for public sector pensions they are not changing their own pensions...despite them being public sector workers.

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:N_YtLpjM8ewJ:www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/M05.pdf+MP+pensions&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShaLgw0bembRI3x5Bu3ZzxuzBhgJcZ91hjlTYgFfUFHchvEjd0TmwsPxHNOkfSq1PRHKfai0_WMc-16jAXGhgs4Z9o7nNh7HxqMMpNDiUpqdbWpDKadl4KS4T_l2nMDBQrLR-zA&sig=AHIEtbS10ZKR9W9pYkQF9m5V-lHg9qv4jw

I work in the private sector and I'm totally against the strike, I feel that some public setor workers really don't understand how lucky they have it. When minimum rate wage went up the company I work for laid off 40 members of staff to cover it. They made this totally clear this was the reason why they had to let the staff go. Fair no! Did they get the chance to strike? no! Sadly most people at the moment are living month to month and can't even consider a pension. I feel really let down by the public sector for going on strike when at least 10 people I worked with on a daily basis have lost there job and would give there right arm to be in any kind of job at the moment.

I support the strike, and at the risk of sounding like a loony commie - I also support the campaign to redress the wealth inequality worldwide. There is money sloshing about that could address many of the issues - unfortunately, it's in the hands of the 1% who don't want to hand it back to the 99%. Instead of the petty bickering and glib acceptance of the mass media's portrayal of campaigners for wealth equality as anti-capitalists, if the majority of the 99% were to unite, take a stand & demand the introduction of a financial transactions tax, many of the imbalances of society would be addressed, cuts to services & increased taxation avoided and potential world recession averted. We are the 99%, please support the robin hood tax and occupy together.
Now I stand down off my soapbox and await the onslaught

For all those moaning that tax payers pay public sector and their pension I,d like to point out a couple of things ....public sector workers like everyone else apart from mega paid big bonus folk pay taxes, they also pay lots of their lower salaries into cover their pension, it is not a free perk like the common misconception out there.I worked in private sector when we still had non.contributory pensions, in public sector where I paid loads in and now in private sector where I made a huge pay jump when I moved so have knowledge of all sides.
BUT who do you all think pays banks staff, shop staff, etc answer really the tax payer....we pay our money into the bank, we borrow from the bank they make profits and that funds their operating costs and pays staff wages and the bonuses of those still getting them.....banks don't operate without tax payers money and the profits they make.....if tax payers don't shop in places they close because in reality tax payers fund the shop and their staff wages it's basic economics...tax payers fund pretty much all of it.
Yes in a shop you get goods, in a bank you're meant to get a safe place to keep your money....in public sector you get free education at school, free healthcare, free dentist, free social work care, bin service, roads and so on so that's what we pay for.
Just ask yourself if the public servants in government are serving normal tax payers why then do many use private schools and the like the rest can't afford just like the same folk who brought the worlds finances into chaos because they can afford to and yes it's the rest of us normal tax payers who pay for it!
Good luck to those losing a days pay on strike or those who loose out as a result of it but all fighting each other nicely deflects the fight from those who caused this mess in the first place so they win in the end..again!

Hang on, I want to change my mind. The traffic was lovely and light this morning. Thanks public sector [STRIKE]workers[/STRIKE] strikers.