While some of the examples might not be on point (nurses in particular), he’s got the big picture right. The idea of stated goal versus internal aims of these organization is on the mark.
I’ve noted in the past that Communism is entrepreneurship for the apparatchiks. Instead of competing with each other in the marketplace, they vie to see how much power and wealth they can extract from those who aren’t in the in-crowd.
Our system is less hierarchical than the Party was, but many of the subgroups such as SEIU or the NEA share the same features in terms of their relationship with the normal, non-organized economy. If you’re not in one of these groups, you’re fair game.
The solution? I don’t know if there is one short of collapse and rebirth, but if there is, it involves a much smaller government and legal code. The government’s job is to protect it’s citizens from groups that gang up on it; that’s why we have a military and police. But, over the past century, in the name of fairness, we’ve allowed many groups to organize against the public. To borrow a phrase from the title of Amy Shales’ book, who sticks up for the forgotten man?
And they will go to any lengths to keep people from discovering that when it comes to "workers vs. parasites," they are actually the most pernicious of the latter.
Mr. niteowl77