By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--June 27, 2011
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Despite over 60 percent of state workers approving the deal, Connecticut’s collective bargaining rules require 14 of 15 of the public sector unions. Two state unions, including its largest, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, opposed the deal, believing the Governor would offer them a better package if they rejected it.Morons. Even a Democrat Governor knows that he is between a rock and a hard place with budgets these days. Gov. Malloy has said he will not renegotiate and the layoffs will begin. Face, meet that cut off nose! Unions just don’t get it, do they? Their day of organized theft of the taxpayer’s money is over. It must be over if our governments are to stay solvent. After this initial era of major cuts and layoffs is over, the next important step will be to eliminate the government employee unions entirely. They should never have been allowed to exist in the first place. And remember, they’ve only been around for about 50 years, so they are NOT some ages old American institution. Heck, even Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman were against government employee unions. And for good reason, too. They are antithetical to good government.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.