I choose to side with FDR:
"... Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations ... The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for ... officials ... to bind the employer ... The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives ...
"Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people ... This obligation is paramount ... A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent ... to prevent or obstruct ... Government ... Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government ... is unthinkable and intolerable."
Thing is Republican, TEA Party, Conservative, Ring Wing Rhetoric goes against the precepts of the Constitution of the United States, the Doctrine that has enabled our Nation to become the Great Nation it is. Those ideas that are embraced in the Rhetoric are the concepts that are in fact tearing the Nation apart, creating a climate of decline, contributing to making America a Third World Nation with increasing levels of poverty, political and racial inspired incidents of violence, murder and mayhem.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Under the views held by today's Conservative, TEA Party, Republican, Right Wing Rhetoric this Preamble to the Constitution is defined as Socialist, Communist and Marxism.
We the People is a collective society that sanctions, ordains the Constitution for the United States of America, not individuals nor the most powerful Private Sector Institutions. It is true that you work harder for your own goals but the Constitution and the Government are set up to work for the goals of the collective of United States Citizens.
Charges of Communism, Marxism, Socialism are a subliminal call to arms for otherwise complacent Patriotic American types imbued with bigot, racist and/or cultural stereotypes. The very mention of either of those words blinds them to the major issues and crisis facing the United States.
Good to have some honest info on Canada. The U.S. Medicare system -- which we truly like, and which really pays providers faster and better than private insurers -- is in essence the same as the Canadian health system: your own doctor, your own hospital, and one source to pay them. Why should anyone's medical misfortune let someone else make a fortune?
They should demand Walker & Co. resign. Seems to be working in the Middle East!
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