reading this thread and watching the news it seems many people in this argument are confusing 'private sector' with the upper echelons of the financial sector
not everyone who works in the private sector is rolling in millions, far, far, far from it
my pay has been frozen the last 3 years and during that time we've been constantly in fear of further redundancies without the ability to strike or withhold services to protect our jobs... in short, we (the ordinary working man) are all in this together