Locking in the Permanent Union Lobby
Public employees suck. That’s right. I went there:
There’s only one man in the Country doing anything about this right now (and even he’s not doing enough) and I for one am proud that he happens to be doing it right here in the Swamp.
We’ve been bringing you Chris Christie’s war with the teacher’s union over the past week as an effort to illuminate how, at least in the public education field, it is never about the well-being and “education” of the children of this State. Never. It is about one thing and one thing only: establishing a permanent teacher lobby to line the pockets of union bosses and administrators. It’s that simple and it’s a fact.
Christie’s logic is unimpeachable. He challenged the Union to agree to a one-year salary freeze so he wouldn’t have to cut state funding to schools. As best I can tell right now, only four of the state’s 591 operating school districts have voluntarily agreed to the pay freeze…in defiance of the Union brass.
The Union told the Governor and the children of New Jersey to go fuck themselves.
This is how public sector unions operate ladies and gentlemen and it is without exception. Start waking up and telling your local elected officials the truth about unions. It’s high past time.
Russ
Russ
Ed snagged the chart so I snagged it from Ed:
That is truly despicable. For all the preaching and the lecturing about belt-tightening and “don’t spend the kids college money in Vegas” bullshit, the fatties just keep on getting fatter.
And yes, that goes for Bush too.
Ed:
Every mandate creates a new bureaucracy, and every bureaucracy creates a human cost when it comes time to cut it back. This is an increasingly dire cycle for Americans who value their independence and liberty.
This reminds me of an excellent piece I read over at CL’s joint yesterday. It’s long but worth every word.
What has in fact happened during the past half century is that the bulk of power in our society, as it affects our intellectual, economic, social, and cultural existences, has become largely invisible, a function of the vast infragovernment composed of bureaucracy’s commissions, agencies, and departments in a myriad of areas. And the reason this power is so commonly invisible to the eye is that it lies concealed under the humane purposes that have brought it into existence.
The greatest single revolution of the last century in the political sphere has been the transfer of effective power over human lives from the constitutionally visible offices of government, the nominally sovereign offices, to the vast network that has been brought into being in the name of protection of the people from their exploiters.
The legislation is usually bad enough, but when you factor in the transfer of power from electorally accountable officials to those with near-permanent job security, the negative implications for individual liberty are increased exponentially.
With ObamaCare will come a bureaucracy the likes of which we can’t even possibly imagine. Commensurate with its growth, your life as you know it may very well cease to exist.
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