The Crippling Price of Public Employee Unions

[jem]

1. America first.
2. Constitution first.
3. Peel back govt spending.
4. Secure the borders for real.
5. Non paid holiday for non essential govt workers in honor of Arizona being the leader of the the restoration of sanity to the United States.

 

[Angrycat]

Quote from jem:

1. America first.
2. Constitution first.
3. Peel back govt spending.
4. Secure the borders for real.
5. Non paid holiday for non essential govt workers in honor of Arizona being the leader of the the restoration of sanity to the United States.

2 & 3 go hand in hand and that's all you really need. Left to their own devices and without government sticking its nose into everything, Americans will generate so much economic growth that you will be begging Mexicans to come work here because we will have a shortage of labour. In other words, the immigration issue will solve itself.

 

[MKTrader]

Quote from nutmeg:

Does anyone think Public Employee Unions could be doing a better job and consequently retain these middle class jobs?

If we kill off the public employee unions there goes a large chunk of middle class. Who needs that?

These are good paying jobs although too political in some cases.

Whoa. There were public sector jobs before unions became prevalent and they'll still be there if we eliminate every union. Unions have inflated wages, made pensions and other benes ridiculous in many cases and protected completely incompetent gov't employees. They're hard enough to fire anyway, but throw in unions and it's darn near impossible.

Nobody is saying that we should cut a large chunk of gov't jobs tomorrow. Just get them back to the original intent (relatively lower pay for relatively good benes and job security) and quit creating umpteen new gov't agencies and jobs at every drop of a hat.