Gutting Unions Hurts the Black Middle Class

Henry Louis Gates' "The Root" ^ | 11 March | Holloway

[hal ogen]

I wouldn’t call government employees a “strong middle class”...because it is artificial. Just what do they produce for their “work”? Mainly they hassle productive citizens. More so, I describe it as a “weak dependent MUDDLED class”.

[ModelBreaker]

“I wouldn’t call government employees a “strong middle class”...because it is artificial. Just what do they produce for their “work”? Mainly they hassle productive citizens. More so, I describe it as a “weak dependent MUDDLED class”.”

Fair enough. If you go thru prosperous black communities in LA (the only ones I know about) a shockingly high proportion of the residents are government employees. But they are strong communities you would probably like to live in.

[ADSUM]

So it is better to lose jobs in Wisconsin, then for public unions to give up their ability to steal from the taxpayers.

There is no money left to pay for the benefits. The restriction on union power advantage to keep taking more (given to them by democrat/liberal politicans) has been accomplished. The judge just delayed it a bit.

I would like to see a major downsizing of the government sector in WI.

[flowerplough]

MB and Zeppo, best two. Well put.

[Gumdrop]

This is the guy who abused the police officers who thought he was breaking into his house, which resulted in the POTUS insulting the police, which then resulted in the infamous beer summit at the WH!!!!!

[Huck]

Last year, African-American workers were more likely than whites, Asians and Hispanics to be public-union members

That figures.

[PGalt]

Great thread BUMP! Henry Louis Gates, eh? /snicker

[dagogo redux]

Gutting Mafia Hurts the Italian Middle Class.

There: corrected that.

[Vaduz]

And illegal house keepers,lawn rangers,day labor.....

[TruthBeforeAll]

I wonder if black Americans will ever grow tired of being told by liberals that they are incapable of accomplishing anything in their lives without some form of governance.

[Gaffer]

Well, it just goes to show you. When you put forth logic, reason and common sense, you turn over another rock of the liberal landscape and out crawls another guilt-trip....it’s racist!....give me a frickin’ break....race baiters, heart tuggers, humanists, perverts, hard working government officials, just go the hell away. We don’t want you any more.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Taxpayers should not be held hostage by lucrative contracts negotiated by liberal elected officials which in turns forces people to pay money into union coffers which is laundered back to liberal elected officials.

Especially since the tax payers can't choose which agency they want to do business with for any given need. If you need a new car, you can choose which company you want to buy from, so the UAW workers still have to compete for your business and their jobs against other UAW and nonunion workers. Not so with the public sector.