Neanderpundit

Look: Like it or not, the union is a fact of life. As long as stupid people have jobs, there will be assholes to represent them in unions.

When, say, Ford has a labor dispute, the labor representatives sit down with a representative of the company. The representatives of the people who do the work negotiate with the representatives of the people who write the checks.

In a teachers union the teachers negotiate with school boards and other elected officials. Problem is, those elected officials are often elected with large contributions from the unions they are supposed to be across the bargaining table with. The people who are supposed to represent the Taxpayers are financially beholden to the unions they must bargain with.

Nowhere do the Unions want to negotiate with taxpayers. They know the moment they do, the taxpayers will demand that they do their jobs properly, and for the same kinds of wages and benefits that the taxpayers enjoy. The current relationship is intrinsically corrupt and inbred, and anything we can do to shut this down should be done.

Taking the task of educating children away from the municipalities in which they live, and assigning the task to the state or federal government is the very worst thing we as a society have ever done.

Was 72 degrees at the hotel last night, may be as warm today.

May still have a chunk of cold, and it may get cold enough to actually snow, but it’s finally over. Now I can look forward to that Rite of the Beginning of Summer, the Indy 500. Jim Nabors, fighter jets, open wheel racing. Yeah.

I don’t give a damn what anyone says, these boys are using a bit too much loafer lightener.

How they make a living doing what they do, I’ll never understand.