overall employee health care contributions in the public versus the private sector in your fine state and the reality is, over all, health care contributions, the private sector, are 20 percent, and state and local government workers, it is half that, a paid holiday. union workers enjoy at least ten, nonunion workers, no more than eight. i could go on and on here, but, how is that going down or are people paying the fact game here or just the emotion game here. guest: well, clearly it is an emotion game. you can understand the emotions with it when someone has something taken away, the private sector you don t like reductions, either, you don t like the number of hours you are working to be reduced but that is a fact in the economy. also a fact of what has happened with government. and i believe the public understands their employees, people that are working with taxpayer dollars, are going to