...except that Obama is no Reagan.Perhaps if Governor Palin tweets about this, the new Tea Party Congress will discover their spines, and investigate this outrage RIGOROUSLY.
It’s not a federal issue and I don’t want the feds sticking their noses in every time a municipal government gets hammered by a municipal employees union. However, what they could do is call for hearings on the role that public unions play in large disasters and examine current federal law protections the unions enjoy. They might determine that their power and practices work so adversely against the interests of the public they are supposed to serve that they should be abolished. This, of course, would be done with the understanding that some arrangements will be made for renegotiating employment contracts with the workers individually so that people close to retirement aren’t completely left out in the cold the way the workers just did to the people of NYC. ;)