Thread: Labor Day
View Single Post
  #17  
Old 09-03-2012, 10:41 AM
merrylander's Avatar
merrylander merrylander is offline
Resident octogenarian
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Maryland
Posts: 20,860
Quote:
Originally Posted by mpholland View Post
I think the biggest difference between private and public sector unions is just the fact that private unions have finite resources and public sector just increases taxes to cover their expansions. We are already to the point where a huge portion of our taxes goes to pay for money that is already spent (debt, interest, and public sector benefits included). I wonder when people will realize that soon all the money we give won't be enough to cover what we already owe?

Happy labor day anyway!
Uh chaps, it is the pols that are guilty, not the unions, there is no reason - other than hoping to buy votes - that the pols should give in to every demand. If I was a public sector worker and the pols behaved that way I would be damned if I would vote for them.
__________________
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Reply With Quote