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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 812927" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>I never stated that school teachers, police officers, or firemen were the enemy, but their union leadership is.&nbsp; As I see it the only reason they are unionized is due to certain politicians realizing that they benefit financially from unionized workers, but since the private sector unions are in decline they devised these public sector unions up in order to funnel taxpayer dollars into their own political coffers.&nbsp; These unions cannot strike in most instances, only negotiate.&nbsp; They negotiate with their own bosses who hold the purse strings and coincidentally whose future is reliant upon the support of their own workers.&nbsp; For example, if Scott Davis&#039;s future as UPS CEO was directly related to a vote that we as workers could take part in, and all he had to do to raise more money for the company was to go out and take it by force my bet is there would be little incentive for him to put up much resistance in contract negotiations.&nbsp; Worse yet if the money he was using was being directly borrowed against the future labor of our children and grand children would that make it ok with you?&nbsp; Given your past responses I&#039;m guessing it does, but some of us do realize we have a moral responsibility to past, present, and future generations to keep the burden of government low so that those who succeed us can enjoy the same freedoms as we have been able to enjoy.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="brett636, post: 812927, member: 249"] I never stated that school teachers, police officers, or firemen were the enemy, but their union leadership is. As I see it the only reason they are unionized is due to certain politicians realizing that they benefit financially from unionized workers, but since the private sector unions are in decline they devised these public sector unions up in order to funnel taxpayer dollars into their own political coffers. These unions cannot strike in most instances, only negotiate. They negotiate with their own bosses who hold the purse strings and coincidentally whose future is reliant upon the support of their own workers. For example, if Scott Davis's future as UPS CEO was directly related to a vote that we as workers could take part in, and all he had to do to raise more money for the company was to go out and take it by force my bet is there would be little incentive for him to put up much resistance in contract negotiations. Worse yet if the money he was using was being directly borrowed against the future labor of our children and grand children would that make it ok with you? Given your past responses I'm guessing it does, but some of us do realize we have a moral responsibility to past, present, and future generations to keep the burden of government low so that those who succeed us can enjoy the same freedoms as we have been able to enjoy. [/QUOTE]

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