[Renderofveils]

You put the matter in a very good perspective. I have for years maintained that any and all unions under the banner of a public funded service should be strictly illegal.

"... Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations ... The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for ... officials ... to bind the employer ... The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives ...

"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people ... This obligation is paramount ... A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent ... to prevent or obstruct ... Government ... Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government ... is unthinkable and intolerable."

-FDR, 1937

[SierraWasp]

Thank you for posting Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dictum on public employee unions. I'd heard it, but never read it. It's perfect and powerful!!!

I frankly don't think enough people know about this. This would be a good Tea Party project, to get this powerful idea out to all the public... Along with the morbid history of how Democrats went right ahead after his death and proceeded to ordain the very idea he abhorred!!!

[P H Lewis]

Is there anywhere I can read the source text for this without all of the elipses?