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To: epicure who wrote (63476)	3/30/2018 11:52:53 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 363232

>> Liking someone's quote and glibly quoting it a lot doesn't make someone an authority. 1. California Drug Laws In California, when tougher drug laws were considered, law enforcement and penal workers unions supported tougher drug laws and longer sentences for offenders, as any good union would -- it was in the workers' interests to have longer sentences for drug offenders. Not as a matter of public policy. And this is the fundamental problem. 2. FDR as an Expert on the Subject Now, let's back up a second on your appeal to authority claim. I think you'll agree that FDR was an expert on the subject of government and will stipulate that his career qualifies him as such. When he stated, "It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government," he was speaking on the nature of government, not the nature of unions. Should public workers go on strike, they are striking against the taxpayers, not against shareholders who voluntarily invested in shares. When public workers collectively bargain, they are inherently at-odds with taxpayers, not shareholders, and as a result, instead of taxpayers having the "final say" on government, the unions do. And as shown above, the union's interests can be, very often are, at odds with the public policy interests. Hence, the term "conflict of interests" or even "corrupt".