“It’d Be A Shame If The Country Broke”
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
The Supreme Court will hear a public sector union case: does forcing government employees to pay Fair Share dues interfere with their First Amendment right?
George Will’s view differs from John Choi’s view.
First, why is John Choi expressing a view at all? He’s an executive branch government official. Shouldn’t he keep his mouth shut and let the judicial branch decide without political influence?
Second, this line from Choi’s column:
“If the Friedrichs decision upends existing labor law, it could jeopardize our ability to ensure effective delivery of services.”
In other words, if you don’t let public employees organize into unions that contribute to the Democrats, police and firemen won’t do their jobs. Nice city you got there, be a shame if anything happened to it.
Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers who were trying to cripple the nation with an illegal strike and replaced them with military controllers until new non-union employees could be trained. Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan. He won’t deploy the military to serve as police and firemen. You can bet he’s told Justice Roberts as much. The nation is being held hostage by the Democrat-controlled public employee unions.
This is EXACTLY what Conservatives predicted would happen before public employees unions were allowed.
Joe Doakes
I’m inclined to say “let ’em strike”; most of the “services” provided by government would be better done by the private sector, or nobody at all.
But Joe’s right. The fix is in. It’ll never happen.
January 18th, 2016 at 5:28 am
here’s a scenario
SCOTUS finds for Friedrichs in June.
AFSCME makes strike noises until September then decide to go out on a limited strike in beginning November 5th but only if things look bad for Hillary and only in the following states: Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado and Wisconsin. Who’s going to count the ballots in the these swing states? – who’s going to run the elections – scabs? Actually just PA and WI would be enough to scuttle the election.
January 18th, 2016 at 7:57 am
One of the reasons this suit was created was because public employee unions in California were lobbying to allow drag queens to shower with girls. So if a teenage boy puts on women’s clothing, the unions said he should be able to use the girls locker rooms. This was the event that pushed them to sue to get out of paying the union.
January 18th, 2016 at 8:30 am
Chuck,
That is the big rub on the whole hypocritical left wing meme on transgendered people.
I believe I read about a suit against Planet Fitness for their “inclusive” policy. Seems one of their female members objected when she found a man in the ladies locker room. The gutless judge threw the suit out on some narrow interpretation by him.
Anyway, every time I argue with a libidiot about this issue, they look stunned, then stammer a bit and try to change the subject. My question a two parter:
1. Would you shower in a locker room with a transgender man?
January 18th, 2016 at 8:31 am
DOH! Damn fat fingers!
2. Would you want your pubescent or teenage daughter to do so?
January 18th, 2016 at 10:21 am
Interesting. I wonder if Choi looked at either Indiana or Wisconsin to see how things went when they allowed freedom of association in their dealings with public employees. Obviously those places must be public-service hell-holes now that public unions are actually voluntary.
(Note that public union membership is down to less than 40% of where it was before, meaning that essentially all that are left in the union are the true-blue Democrats who supported the union politics at the start.)
January 19th, 2016 at 8:18 am
It strikes me that the argument for unions is that workers can not trust their employer to act in their interest and fairly. Now, government sector unions prove that the government cannot be trusted to act in peoples’ best interest.
Q.E.D for conservatism, IMO.
January 20th, 2016 at 1:23 pm
Who’s going to count the ballots in the these swing states? – who’s going to run the elections – scabs?
Um, election judges?