“Just a friendly suggestion to Mr. Douthat. Spend 5 years as a patrolman in any medium or large Police Department and you will understand why Police Officers need unions.”
How about the firefighters? Here, they eat til they’re sleepy, then sleep till they’re hungry. All for $100 grand in salary and another $100 grand in OT. Plus, since they’ve all worked so hard, they can retire at 50 with a full pension. And oh, I almost forgot, they all have side businesses that they run. You almost wonder how they have time to take the cabin cruiser out on the Delta for a day they are working soo hard!
My suggestion to the author was regarding being a police officer for 5 years.