Re: March Imprimis - "What Public Employee Unions are Doing to Our Country"

Great article.

On Mar 16, 4:21 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>   [image: Imprimis]     March 2012 • Volume 41, Number 3 What Public
> Employee Unions are Doing to Our Country
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> *William McGurn *
> News Corporation
>
> WILLIAM MCGURN  is a vice president for News Corporation and writes the
> weekly "Main Street" column for the Wall Street Journal. From 2005 to 2008,
> he served as chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Prior to that
> he was the chief editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal and spent
> more than ten years in Europe and Asia for Dow Jones. He has written for a
> wide variety of publications, including Esquire, the Washington Post, the
> Spectator of London and the National Catholic Register. He holds a B.A.
> from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree in communications
> from Boston University, and currently serves on the board of Notre Dame's
> Center for Ethics and Culture.
>
> *The following is adapted from a speech delivered on February 15, 2012, at
> a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Newport Beach,
> California.*
>
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> MANY SCHOLARS ARE  better versed on the history of public employee unions
> than I am, but there is one credential I can claim that they cannot: I am a
> taxpayer in the People's Republic of New Jerseystan. That makes me an
> authority on how public sector unions—especially at the state and local
> level—are thwarting economic growth, strangling the middle class, and
> generally hijacking the democratic process to serve their own ends rather
> than the public.
>
> Now in my experience, when one says the words "New Jersey," people for some
> reason think it is a laugh line. Perhaps you know us from The Sopranos or
> Jersey Shore. You might think that such a state has nothing to teach you.
> If so, you would be very wrong. New Jersey offers something that can profit
> the entire nation: We are the perfect bad example.
>
> As conservatives, of course, we believe in virtue. We like to point to
> policies and practices that work—low taxes and light regulation for the
> economy, a strong national defense to keep us safe from foreign attack, and
> social policies that favor community over government. These are all
> valuable. But the bad example has its honored place as well: It's how we
> illustrate our warnings.
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