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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
"I don't have it, so why should anyone else?" That's what got us here.
Everyone wanting to share their misery. After a time, that's all any of us will have.
Dave
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The problem with public unions is that they and politicians have similar interests in the expansion of their power. The politicians offer their pro-union positions in exchange for votes. There is no countervailing interest to halt the endless circle. Unlike private companies where you have opposing interests at the bargaining table, public unions lack this seminal part of just negotiations. The result is that those outside the union are forced to absorb the costs.
The extended problem is the growth and entrenchment of bureaucracies within the government and the attendant poor response that that entails to the interaction with the populace. Where government is involved we find inefficient delivery of products. Consider the the Post Office, DMVs, Fannie and Freddie as prime examples where the check of the marketplace fails to operate. I'll paraphrase Dwight D. Eisenhower: "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Government-Union complex."