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Originally Posted by gimpy117
also, I can even turn that around...because a corporate donor is the same thing as an employee when the government is paying their contract. why do you think companies give money to senators in the first place? so the government trows them nice juicy contracts probably when they shouldn't.
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Thank you for proving my point Gimpy. A government official that gets caught unethically pandering to a company looses his seat and the company looses it's contract. Where are the ethics violations when it comes to pandering to public sector unions?
Also a private company that is hired by the government has competition to get and keep that contract. Public sector unions with mandatory membership have eliminated their competition and are scared to death they might not bet to keep their monopoly. That's why they oppose annual re-certification and voluntary union dues.
Bottom line is the unions are going to loose this battle. Fiscal realities cannot be ignored or shouted down, and the longer the Democrats continue to ignore it the worse it's going to hurt them next year.
I predict the Dems will abandon unions much the same way the GoP abandoned the religious right.