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la...@pivotforpower.com
May 21, 2013, 12:04:16 PM5/21/13
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"With private-sector unions spinning down to insignificance, government worker unions are the only growth area for organized labor. But even that has been problematic, as states continue to crack down on powerful government worker unions and local governments find expensive payrolls and benefits packages unaffordable. On the federal level, pay freezes and furloughs have taken their toll too.
Obama has been able to keep his political patrons on board by reminding them how much worse things would be under Republican control. But they still want much more from Obama than he has been willing or able to provide.
Consider, then, what would happen if the White House really got serious about the IRS scandal and appointed an outsider to come in and start scouring. Government worker unions would be furious and the chance that a low-level employee would make a high-level accusation of wrongdoing would go way up.
Obama is obliged politically and practically to protect unionized government workers. He owes them and they may hold the key to insulating his administration from the worst of the scandal. While it might help with the press and public to crack down on the IRS as former President Bill Clinton once did, Obama may not be able to take on this key part of the Democratic constituency. Times have changed and so has the Democratic base.
The involvement of these powerful political patrons may help explain not only why Obama isn’t showing more spine on the scandal but also why his top aides were so anxious and secretive about news of the scandal itself."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/21/obama-must-protect-government-unions-in-irs-scandal/#ixzz2TwYMA9iL
I agree with President Roosevelt and many others that the very concept of Government Unions is ridiculous! Their employer is US! They have a monopoly and their demands are for more from the taxpayers! Everyone knows a government job is already a license to steal, they make 50% more than equivalent civilians--with far better benefits and a fabulous pension. Government unions should be dissolved. If they don't like it, they could go out and get a real job.
Larry
Obama has been able to keep his political patrons on board by reminding them how much worse things would be under Republican control. But they still want much more from Obama than he has been willing or able to provide.
Consider, then, what would happen if the White House really got serious about the IRS scandal and appointed an outsider to come in and start scouring. Government worker unions would be furious and the chance that a low-level employee would make a high-level accusation of wrongdoing would go way up.
Obama is obliged politically and practically to protect unionized government workers. He owes them and they may hold the key to insulating his administration from the worst of the scandal. While it might help with the press and public to crack down on the IRS as former President Bill Clinton once did, Obama may not be able to take on this key part of the Democratic constituency. Times have changed and so has the Democratic base.
The involvement of these powerful political patrons may help explain not only why Obama isn’t showing more spine on the scandal but also why his top aides were so anxious and secretive about news of the scandal itself."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/21/obama-must-protect-government-unions-in-irs-scandal/#ixzz2TwYMA9iL
I agree with President Roosevelt and many others that the very concept of Government Unions is ridiculous! Their employer is US! They have a monopoly and their demands are for more from the taxpayers! Everyone knows a government job is already a license to steal, they make 50% more than equivalent civilians--with far better benefits and a fabulous pension. Government unions should be dissolved. If they don't like it, they could go out and get a real job.
Larry
golfbum18
May 21, 2013, 2:23:12 PM5/21/13
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On May 21, 12:04 pm, "la...@pivotforpower.com"
<la...@pivotforpower.com> wrote:
> "With private-sector unions spinning down to insignificance, government worker unions are the only growth area for organized labor. But even that has been problematic, as states continue to crack down on powerful government worker unions and local governments find expensive payrolls and benefits packages unaffordable. On the federal level, pay freezes and furloughs have taken their toll too.
>
> Obama has been able to keep his political patrons on board by reminding them how much worse things would be under Republican control. But they still want much more from Obama than he has been willing or able to provide.
>
> Consider, then, what would happen if the White House really got serious about the IRS scandal and appointed an outsider to come in and start scouring. Government worker unions would be furious and the chance that a low-level employee would make a high-level accusation of wrongdoing would go way up.
>
> Obama is obliged politically and practically to protect unionized government workers. He owes them and they may hold the key to insulating his administration from the worst of the scandal. While it might help with the press and public to crack down on the IRS as former President Bill Clinton once did, Obama may not be able to take on this key part of the Democratic constituency. Times have changed and so has the Democratic base.
>
> The involvement of these powerful political patrons may help explain not only why Obama isn’t showing more spine on the scandal but also why his top aides were so anxious and secretive about news of the scandal itself."
>
> Read more:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/21/obama-must-protect-governm...
> "With private-sector unions spinning down to insignificance, government worker unions are the only growth area for organized labor. But even that has been problematic, as states continue to crack down on powerful government worker unions and local governments find expensive payrolls and benefits packages unaffordable. On the federal level, pay freezes and furloughs have taken their toll too.
>
> Obama has been able to keep his political patrons on board by reminding them how much worse things would be under Republican control. But they still want much more from Obama than he has been willing or able to provide.
>
> Consider, then, what would happen if the White House really got serious about the IRS scandal and appointed an outsider to come in and start scouring. Government worker unions would be furious and the chance that a low-level employee would make a high-level accusation of wrongdoing would go way up.
>
> Obama is obliged politically and practically to protect unionized government workers. He owes them and they may hold the key to insulating his administration from the worst of the scandal. While it might help with the press and public to crack down on the IRS as former President Bill Clinton once did, Obama may not be able to take on this key part of the Democratic constituency. Times have changed and so has the Democratic base.
>
> The involvement of these powerful political patrons may help explain not only why Obama isn’t showing more spine on the scandal but also why his top aides were so anxious and secretive about news of the scandal itself."
>
>
> I agree with President Roosevelt and many others that the very concept of Government Unions is ridiculous! Their employer is US! They have a monopoly and their demands are for more from the taxpayers! Everyone knows a government job is already a license to steal, they make 50% more than equivalent civilians--with far better benefits and a fabulous pension. Government unions should be dissolved. If they don't like it, they could go out and get a real job.
>
> Larry
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> I agree with President Roosevelt and many others that the very concept of Government Unions is ridiculous! Their employer is US! They have a monopoly and their demands are for more from the taxpayers! Everyone knows a government job is already a license to steal, they make 50% more than equivalent civilians--with far better benefits and a fabulous pension. Government unions should be dissolved. If they don't like it, they could go out and get a real job.
>
> Larry
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