“What are we turning into?”
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Well, in large part the war on union jobs has been won. At least manufacturing unions. (government unions are growing)
Now the jobs are gone. Horrayy! We won! (looking around at the rubble)
Problem is, that just means now, more people cannot support themselves.
So democrats gained votes, in the process.
“Well, in large part the war on union jobs has been won. At least manufacturing unions. (government unions are growing)”
The manufacturing unions committed suicide. In an increasing number of Dem states, government workers are dropping like flies because they have become unsustainable. Without hard figures, I think it is a safe bet that NJ has less teachers/cops/firemen than 4 years ago; I don’t see how they could make up for the thousands laid off by budget cuts (which even climbed into the tenured ranks).
Many people forget that soon after 9/11, when the NYC government was asked how they intended to replace the 343 firemen killed on that day, the initial answer was: “We aren’t going to”. They had such an excess of personnel, and were already feeling the economic heat of financial firms leaving the city (one of the saving graces in the WTC was the number of vacancies in the buildings; more people may have died in the stairwells without them).