Is that a Stick in my Neck or do you just Belong to a Union?
Is anyone else reading these excellent Broadsides from Encounter Books? I read one last night by my old friend EJ McMahon called "Obama and America's Public Sector Plague" that explains how public workers and their unions are vampiring the economy. A mere 50 pages and by the end of it, I was so righteously indignant I thought I was going to keel over with apoplexy. How do these public worker guys with their average salaries of twice those in the private sector, their early retirement ages, their guaranteed pensions... how do these guys keep selling the public on paying their ways? I love cops, firemen and teachers, I do, but it's called public service for a reason. Besides which, most of these dokes aren't cops, firemen and teachers anyway. They're the guy who processes the fee for filling out the form for processing the fee for filling out the form for giving you a permit to get an inspection so you can pay a fee for a form. And he's making a hundred grand a year with lifetime benefits! Those of us old enough to remember the Defenestrations of Prague (oh, all right, I read about them) have some interesting suggestions on how we can pay tribute to these fine public workers and their union bosses.
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Sep '10
Re: Is that a Stick in my Neck or do you just Belong to a Union?
Chris Christie is doing the virtual defenestration of the teachers' union in NJ.
Re: Is that a Stick in my Neck or do you just Belong to a Union?
Drew: prepare your blood pressure for this graph:
Aug '10
Re: Is that a Stick in my Neck or do you just Belong to a Union?
This may have been brought up before -- multiple times, even.
But do you ever get the feeling that the whole trope that submitting to vampires is romantic and pleasurable is propaganda meant to prepare citizens to welcome submission to a bloodthirsty public sector?
Aug '10
Re: Is that a Stick in my Neck or do you just Belong to a Union?
Rob Long: Drew: prepare your blood pressure for this graph: · Sep 10 at 2:24pm
That graph is positively indecent, and not just because of its title.
Jul '10
Re: Is that a Stick in my Neck or do you just Belong to a Union?
Thank you, Mr. Klavan! This is a very important point that I don't think can be made often enough in this debate. There has been a lot of rumbling on the right lately about public-sector compensation, and it seems disproportionately to center around police, fire and teachers (see Dan Foster's article "Cops, And Robbers" in the latest National Review, for example), which loses sight of the fact that these make up a comparatively small part of the public-sector payroll.
Of course, I'm a cop so I'm biased. :)
Jul '10
Re: Is that a Stick in my Neck or do you just Belong to a Union?
I have a confession to make: as an employer, I discriminate.
Oh, I've hired thousands of employees of every race and both genders. I've hired felons and reformed drug addicts. I've hired gays.
But I've never, ever consented to hire anyone who ever worked for the government.
Local, State or Federal, they're just...
Tainted
Jul '10
Re: Is that a Stick in my Neck or do you just Belong to a Union?
Kenneth: But I've never, ever consented to hire anyone who ever worked for the government.
Local, State or Federal, they're just...
Tainted · Sep 10 at 7:00pm
That include military veterans?