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I'll be more than glad to pimp your blog for you. Hell, Elross won't!
I've noticed recently that your blog has become a little more well-written, sourced, and shows a smidgen of actual compromise in your heavy-handed conservative views.
I commend you. Good work!
Well, thanks. If it's more well written, I would just have to put it down to practice. The more your write, the better you write. However I don't think I compromise my views, they are merely more varied than you probably have given me credit for. Particularly when it comes up to issues that have just not really come up before, like public sector unions. I think it would be difficult to say I had much compromise there. I made it clear that I really didn't believe in the concept of public sector unions at all. However, that's also an opinion of several prominent people on the left, as I made the point to quote in my blog. On the partisan political angle, of it though, the Democrats have to be in whole hog with the concept. So they blur the distinctions between private sector unions and public sector unions. At least on MSNBC.
But I didn't see this issue coming, and although I clearly see the long term consequences of public sector unions getting their way (Greece) in the short run, I would not have put it on the front burner like Walker did. Big gamble.
I recognize the distinction between State employees who are career service and those who are appointed. Obviously appointees deserve no protections, but every state has career service employee protection enshrined in State law. So they all have more protections than most non union state employees.
I wouldn't exactly use GM as an example. Arguing that their bailout deal allowed their union contracts to be restructured isn't exactly a stirring defense of auto worker unionism. You seem to be conceding that unions were part (although not all) of the problem with GM. I do still think GM should have been allowed to go into bankruptcy. We would have a leaner, more efficient (although admittedly smaller) company if that had been allowed to happen. Bailing out Chrysler in the 80's really didn't cure it's ills. It just allowed it to limp along for years until they got another bailout.
As far as private sector unionism, I don't see that growing at all. Public unions are a different matter since that is up to politics, not the cries of the oppressed state employees.
