Posted on 09/16/2011 3:26:19 PM PDT by Sick of Lefties
"I reject the idea that we have to strip away collective bargaining rights to compete in a global economy."
Noman wasn't aware of anyone suggesting such a thing, and might join the President to protest if he were. He does recall Republican Governors of several states, most notably Wisconsin, moving to eliminate collective bargaining in the public employee context because the conditions that make collective bargaining a right in the private sector context don't afflict the proliferating number of government workers.
You need antagonists on both sides of the table arguing from different premises with different interests, and a presumption that the shareholder-board-management axis is plenipotent, in order to consider the practice a right--something that law must sanction.
In the public sector context, Democrats and unions are one and the same entity faux negotiating over how to spend taxpayer's money. It's like big-time wrestling. Taxpayers, unlike shareholders, are not owed fiduciary duties of loyalty and care by their agents. They are not protected by law and the plaintiff's bar--another Democratic stronghold. Citizens only redress is to vote the blackguards out, which is where re-funneled union contributions, union organizing and union pressure come in handy. The reader gets the picture.
The result is runaway deficits as in California and Illinois--two Democratic strongholds--that threaten financial ruin. Now, Noman and Barack and everybody in the wide-awake club knows what the plan is: for the federal government to fund these deficits (by borrowing trillions of dollars) via a stimulus bill, jobs act or whatever expedient the President cares to sell it as. The push for a federal VAT awaits us whenever the incipient spending-induced crisis strikes. And, strike it will. Capital markets work like that; lenders are not easily fooled by inversions of words like spend-and-tax.
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Even Jon Stewart sees through this scam;
“...the conditions that make collective bargaining a right in the private sector...”
Collective Bargaining is NOT a right.
Even idiots are beginning to see through it.
. . . is an impudent pResident
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