Replies to post #169621 on Simply Politics & News (GOV)

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The problem you have to correct then are the huge unions in the public sector. Unfortunately this is the headline many receive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/nyregion/21lirr.html

It's fair to say that where large unions wield significant political power they are more costly and inefficient.

As we have seen many times in the past, corrupt inefficient unions in the private sector don't withstand the test of competition.

[highline]

I'm jumping in the middle a bit and if I take something wrong- my apologies in advance.

Unions do seem to drive costs up.

In WY it's a right to work state. It takes a $45K a yr. salary (in some areas $35K) to be middle class.

IE- Places that have unions seem to have $50+ an hr carpenters. That certainly would drive the price of a house up in turn requiring the carpenter to need more money to own a house etc... I cycle that snowballs IMO.