On Feb 26, 6:43*pm, Giles wrote:
On Feb 25, 5:04*pm, Jonathan Cook wrote:



On Feb 25, 3:31*pm, Tom Littleton wrote:

On 2/25/2011 3:05 PM, Jonathan Cook wrote:

places, but Madison....I must assume you mean the teachers' union when
you refer to anti-democratic institutions.

care to explain this one, Jon? Because, I sort of like my teachers
having some bargaining power. Just because the rest of the nation got

Private sector unions offer a balance against the power of
corporations. What do public sector unions balance? The power of those
governing, which in our representative democratic republic is
approximately the power of the people. So public sector unions are
anti-democratic. I agree that our society is in a sad state when it
comes to private sector unions, it almost cries out for revolutionary
thinking (and acting); yet public sector unions are really a symptom
of an underlying disfunction. They should not be needed. And they can
become too powerful. If anyone right now needs a public sector union
it is not the teachers, it is the soldiers.

Jon.

moron.

g.

This thread is nominated for the George Gherke award to irrelevance to
fly fishing..