Posted on 02/23/2011 3:21:56 PM PST by Syncro
LOOK FOR THE UNION FABLE
February 23, 2011
The good news out of Wisconsin is that public school students' test scores skyrocketed last week, mystifying educators. The bad news is many student-teacher love affairs were hard-hit without access to janitors' closets and locker rooms.
Democrats are acting as if Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's demand that public sector employees give up collective bargaining would have George Washington rolling in his grave (a clear violation of Gravediggers' Local 803 regulations concerning the rolling of the dead).
In fact, government employees should never, ever be allowed to organize.
The need for a union comes down to this question: Do you have a boss who wants you to work harder for less money? In the private sector, the answer is yes. In the public sector, the answer is a big, fat NO.
Government unions have nothing in common with private sector unions because they don't have hostile management on the other side of the bargaining table. To the contrary, the "bosses" of government employees are co-conspirators with them in bilking the taxpayers.
Far from being careful stewards of the taxpayers' money, politicians are on the same side of the bargaining table as government employees -- against the taxpayers, who aren't allowed to be part of the negotiation. This is why the head of New York's largest public union in the mid-'70s, Victor Gotbaum, gloated, "We have the ability to elect our own boss."
Democratic politicians don't think of themselves as "management." They don't respond to union demands for more money by saying, "Are you kidding me?" They say, "Great -- get me a raise too!"
Democrats buy the votes of government workers with generous pay packages and benefits -- paid for by someone else -- and then expect a kickback from the unions in the form of hefty campaign donations, rent-a-mobs and questionable union political activity when they run for re-election.
In 2006, 10,000 public employees staged a rally outside the New Jersey State House to protest the mere discussion of a cut to their gold-plated salaries and benefits. Then-Gov. Jon Corzine leapt onto the stage shouting: "We will fight for a fair contract!"
Only later, someone noticed: Wait -- isn't he management? (It takes a special kind of courage to promise 10,000 crazed union agitators that you'll fight to get them more money.)
Service Employees International Union officials openly threaten California legislators. At a 2009 legislative hearing, an SEIU member sneered into a microphone: "We helped to getchu into office, and we gotta good memory. Come November, if you don't back our program, we'll getchu out of office."
It used to be widely understood that collective bargaining has no place in government employment. In 1937, the American president beloved by liberals, FDR, warned that collective bargaining "cannot be transplanted into the public service." George Meany, head of the AFL-CIO for a quarter century, said unions were not appropriate for civil servants. As recently as 1978, the vast majority of states prohibited unionization of government employees.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
In fact, government employees should never, ever be allowed to organize.
The need for a union comes down to this question: Do you have a boss who wants you to work harder for less money? In the private sector, the answer is yes. In the public sector, the answer is a big, fat NO.
Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
Eleven of the 25 counties with the highest incomes are near Washington (DC). For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work rules -- and then sticking productive earners with the bill. But, now, we're out of money
Where are the pix?
Dude, I hate to pronounce a FAIL upon you..
Sorry, after her commentary last week only Christiephiles can post Coulter pix.
1. Prince William County, Virginia $110,643
2. Fairfax County, Virginia $106,785
3. Howard County, Maryland $101,710
Search the blogs and find some.
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Just trying to keep you compliant.
Double secret?
Excellent summary Anne.
At least.
The makers of the documentary “Waiting for Superman” should recut the movie to add these teacher union protest videos to the end of it.
Coulter 'insanely jealous' of Sarah PalinShe's way off here.
Washington (CNN) - Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has made some enemies in her years as a right-wing firebrand, but she's still jealous of Sarah Palin's ability to agitate the left.
"I especially love her for her enemies, I'm insanely jealous of that," Coulter said last night on MSNBC. "I love her for how she makes liberal heads explode."
*snip*
Coulter said if Christie were to stay out of the race, she may support Mitt Romney.
"He may well be the best candidate if it's not my love Christie."
Christie supports good ol' boy GOPers against Tea Partiers and has a lot of issues with his conservative "credentials."
Romney would be a disaster as we all know here at FR.
She may have a bee in her bonnet about Christie but Ann Rox!
Pray for America
Another point that needs to be stressed is that the primary function of modern unions is to deny workers the right to negotiate individually. What leftists call the “right to collective bargaining” is really a privilege given to some people (union bosses) to negotiate terms on behalf of others, without regard for those people’s consent.
There is almost no “intramural competition” between unions for new members drawn from other unions.
No competition based on union dues.
No competition based on management fees.
No competition based on union pension plans or investment performance.
No competition based on political affiliation.
When one Local acquires the right to represent you, they pretty much own you as long as you hold your job.
But government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene pensions. They self-righteously lecture us about public service, the children, a "living wage" -- all in the service of squeezing more money from the taxpayer to fund their breathtakingly selfish job arrangements.
~Ann Coulter
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