[C. Edmund Wright]

Yes... public service unions are a pestilence, such a pestilence that even the big liberal FDR execrated the idea when he was perfectly delighted with private industry unions. Who’d ever advocate for them on FR? That’s a mystery.

Indeed - and not only did FDR think they were an abomination, so did George Meany, the legendary AFL CIO labor leader. Apparently this post hilariously called "conservativejoy" is LEFT OF FDR and the AFL CIO on public unions! WTF she's doing on FR - is indeed a mystery.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And that’s sad. Unions in private industry always have to work with a failsafe against excessive folly. The business yields too much and goes under, and the unions get starved away. There is no Other People’s Money keeping the racket going. (Short of bail outs which are another question.)

Governments can blithely and recklessly promise the moon. They too could fail away in principle but that is much harder to happen, and hurts everybody not just a particular business.

Iscool, this is not cool. There is no conservatism or joy in this, conservativejoy.