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To: Paul Smith who wrote (413382)	2/27/2011 1:25:40 PM
From: quehubo	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793926

What I find disturbing after reading an article like this one, which really resonates well with my own thoughts, is that you can find other articles coming to very different conclusions. No doubt these articles resonate very well with people following a failing ideology. Liberalism > Socialism, the trend will be broken with the lack of willing people to be fleeced. The public workers union is a perfect example of what is wrong with trying to make a workers paradise. The vast majority of people work for recognition and achievement and everyone at times needs to feel some real pressure to perform. Recognition, achievement, pressure, these are not things that happen adequately in most union environments.

To: Paul Smith who wrote (413382)	2/27/2011 1:54:27 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793926

The left is running low on utopias. Our son bought us a Traeger pellet barbecue grill because he liked his so well. We love ours too. Traeger was a family-owned business and had 600 employees to manufacture them. Now they have six employees to manufacture the commercial units and the consumer models are all made in China. I don't think a union is going to help a whole heck of a lot.

To: Paul Smith who wrote (413382)	2/27/2011 3:54:52 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793926

More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the left is still trying to pretend that socialism is plausible as an economic system That really sticks in my craw. I can only guess that most of us have no idea why the Evil Empire collapsed. And the conventional media have kept the reasons secret, even assuming "they" have any understanding.

To: Paul Smith who wrote (413382)	2/27/2011 4:27:26 PM
From: Katelew	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793926

Great post, Paul. You've outdone yourself. I especially like the comparison with southern slave holders seceding from the Union and think the analogy is better than even the writer believed. People who pay ever increasing levels of property taxes and sales taxes are slaves to public employee unions that keep asking for more.

To: Paul Smith who wrote (413382)	2/27/2011 10:00:15 PM
From: skinowski	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793926

Unionized public-sector employment is the distilled essence of the left's moral ideal. No one has to worry about making a profit. Generous health-care and retirement benefits are provided to everyone by the government. Comfortable pay is mandated by legislative fiat. .... .... In short, public employment is an idealized socialist economy in miniature. True. Many government employees are living the life which communists and socialists have always promised - and always failed to deliver. Regrettably, in order to maintain this lifestyle they need to get paid, on the average, a good deal more than private employees do. This socialist "ideal" needs to be subsidized so heavily that it is damaging the taxpayers and the economy. As per usual, when it comes to socialistic utopias, the numbers do not add up.