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striking is wrong and the more important your job is the more wrong striking is.

Perhaps you could put your money where your mouth is, and pay these "important" people enough that they would not get the "blue flu" or strike.

Or you could just have the gov't force them to work. It's cheaper and looks good on TV.

If I were in charge the police and firemen of this country would make NFL salaries. Unfortunately I'm not. Now all groups, regardless of how much I normally sympathize, lose my support when they strike; they lose more support when they "semi-strike" (work slowdowns, blue flu, stuff like that), if you're gonna strike have the balls to actually strike. IMHO the best solution is to make police and fireman like many of our other local and state government officials and have their raises be ballot measures. Right now they have to go to government morons and beg for money, that's not right, if they're gonna have to beg for money they should go to the people who's money it actually is. I think they'd get a much more sympathetic ear from John Q Public than from the city council and they wouldn't be in a situation where striking is the only way to even be heard.