Public employee unions are destroying the country. I lived in the Bay Area when BART was being built. Believe it or not, the transit workers went on strike twice before it was even opened! I despise these people. They stick their middle finger up at the public then want our sympathy and support for their self-serving causes.
“Public employee unions are destroying the country.”
NJ is the ideal picture of how they destroy an economy; their workfare programs here in NJ have spent the next century’s revenues already just in last century’s retirees’ benefits. Anyone considering moving here is simply buying into a MASSIVE IOU, and the current services continue to deteriorate because governments are burdened by the costs of retirees that used to perform those same services. On top of that, current salaries are outrageous; government workers have become NJ’s upper middle class since the real jobs left, and those working the crappy jobs are expected to pay their new government overlords.
Very little optimism in NJ...