Daily Kos: Are Public Employee Unions Strangling Us?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/17/867218/-Are-Public-Employee-Unions-Strangling-Us

by davej
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Mon May 17, 2010 at 11:03:03 AM PDT

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF.

For Billionaire Mort Zuckerman it's those damn unions that are the problem. For so many of the rest of us the problem is that we don't have a union.

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Zuckerman has been with us on lots of things, like what he wrote about the stimulus,

"The fiscal program was a disaster. You have to get the money as quickly as possible into the economy. They didn't do that. By end of the first year, only one-third of the money was spent. Why is that?
He should have jammed a stimulus plan into Congress and said, "This is it. No changes. Don't give me that bullshit. We have a national emergency."

I could have written that. (Except it would probably have bad grammar, occasional CAPITALIZED words and a line in bold here and there.)

But he's not with us not when it comes to labor. Last week Zuckerman wrote an op-ed, titled The Crippling Price of Public Employee Unions at US News, and Breaking the Public Sector Unions' Stranglehold on State and Local Governments at Huffington Post, telling us how public employee unions are harming the country. (The Huffington version has about 2000 comments so far - mostly pro-labor. The US News version has about 70 comments, like "Outlaw Unions of any kind.")

I'm wondering where Mort Zuckerman wrote this piece. Was he at one of his homes in New York, New York, East Hampton, New York and Aspen, Colorado? Or maybe he was writing from his 166 foot Oceanco Yacht, the Lazy Z? We know he wasn't writing from his Falcon 900 corporate jet, because he recently purchased a Gulfstream G550.

FULL post at link.