It is the greedy scumbags that they entrust with their members retirement money, which ends up getting funneled to the person who gives the biggest bribe, who then loses 80% of the investment. If the union members had to suffer the consequences of the greed & incompetence of their union bosses, there would be a complete overhaul of the union organization in no time flat, but since the union bosses just go ahead and help themselves to tax dollars to make up for their bad/corrupt investments, the union member have no idea how much they are getting screwed. If the members could see the dollar amounts that their unions spend for political reasons (AKA, bribes), it would make them sick, especially since the members benefits often get worse (I.e. increased medical co-pays, higher healthcare premiums, raised retirement age, lowered retirement payouts, etc.)even though the unions are taking more of their money.

The workers just want to make sure that they are paid a fair wage, have job secutity, and benefits that allows them to care for their families, and nobody has a problem with that. However, we do have a problem with corrupt union bosses abusing both their own union members and the employers, all for the sake of fattening their pockets and funneling money to their friends.

The union bosses have no problem collapsing an entire state because they got an unrealistic contract from a politician who they bribed. They do not care that an economic collapse will result in a majority of their members being unemployed, because the bosses have already skimmed enough off the top in order to live comfortabely for the rest of their lives.

Most reasonable people do not blame the individual union workers for the problems, we blame the scumbags who run the unions.

If public employees had to rely on the likes of you for their salary and benefits, they’d be at the level of Wal-Mart workers. And that would be just fine with you, right?

Public sector employees do not contribute to the economy through creation of products or productive services; they provide needed public services that the public pays for with taxes. Better to renegotiate excessive contracts and make benefits comparable with the private sector, rather than force bankruptcy on the cities, counties and possibly the state. If the goose is killed that lays the golden egg, who will pay the public employees? This is the problem Greece has right now.

There was a time when government employees were called public servants, not in the sense of servility, but in the sense of an overriding individual desire to serve the people in government service. Unionization unfortunately suppresses the desire to serve, and substitutes a desire for more and more benefits. Unionization in the public sector has taken on a mantra of screw the public. Brown will undoubtedly demand the public bend over even farther.

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Looks like we’re cursed to have Brown again as governor. Whitman’s campaign won’t take off because she’s a clone of Jerry. So what’s the difference?