I'll betcha

I'll betcha that in a year or two, once the economy begins to improve, our civil unions will throw this at us:  "In the interest of the public that we serve so selflessly, we generously and responsibly gave up raises or took small decreases in wages during the recession of 2008/2009.  Now that things are better in 2010, we need an 8% (or larger!) raise to make up for the 4% we didn't get last year."

Mark my words.