The protesting public school teachers with fake doctor's notes swarming the Capitol building in Madison, Wis., insist that Gov. Scott Walker is hell-bent on "union busting." Walker denies that his effort to reform public-sector unions in Wisconsin is anything more than an honest attempt at balancing the state's books.
I hope the protesters are right. Public unions have been a 50-year mistake.
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Even FDR, the champion of today's Liberals knew the dangers of unions in the public sector. In 1937 he wrote:
"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations ... The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for ... officials ... to bind the employer ... The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives ...
"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people ... This obligation is paramount ... A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent ... to prevent or obstruct ... Government ... Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government ... is unthinkable and intolerable."
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The problem today is that Government employees think they are better than everyone else. They don't see themselves as representing the whole. They are better than everyone, and as a result are 'entitled' to more. This tends to happen the bigger and more powerful Government gets...
And every politician that has come down the pike has promised public unions the sun, moon, and stars in return for votes, and most important …………………..MONEY.
The promises that everyone knew couldn’t be kept, have now come home to roost. These promises are not only bankrupting local, state, and federal governments, but have now elevated wages and benefits way above the average, tax paying citizen. Tax paying citizens have awaken.
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