I had to look up the author of this article because I swear he was from the GOP but no this guy is Willie Brown a retired life-long Democrat politician.
As the private economy has faltered, we increasingly have a two-tier economy: If you're an insider, a unionized government employee, you're in good shape. Even if you don't do a very good job, you won't be fired. Even in hard times, Washington will spend billions in stimulus funds so that you don't get laid off. You won't even have to take much of a pay cut. And you can retire like an aristocrat at taxpayer expense. But if you're an outsider, trying to survive in a world of $10-an-hour jobs, competing with immigrant labor, paying for your own healthcare, forced to send your children to lousy public schools run by unfireable teachers and $100,000-a-year bureaucrats — well, good luck to you. But be sure to vote Democratic.
This has to be the entire problem that people have with unions in a nutshell. The government bails them out at the expense of everyone else. We see them cut sweetheart deals and have pensions that bankrupt their states. The government even has to take over car companies just to keep the UAW in a job.
This two-tier union system that Brown talks about might eventually become one of the deepest fault-lines in the Democratic party. The other potential fault-line is illegal immigrants versus poor American citizens who can't find work. I think the idea that jobs that Americans don't want died when people are reaching 2 years of unemployment.
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