…is described pretty well in THE NEW REPUBLIC. This author claims that decline is a major cause of our growing inquality, sinking middle class and all that. I agree it is a cause, although not the most powerful one. Our Kate and her interlocutors describe other causes, as does Charles Murray, of course. But Porchers can appreciate the comparison of the union movement to the manual typewriter. We ain’t going back, although there’s some reason for nostalgia, as there is, of course, for Wendell Berry’s sticky farm.
Thursday, June 7, 2012, 8:45 AM
June 7th, 2012 | 10:00 am
The article linked to demonstrates no serious thought on the part of the author of the fundamental philosophical differences between private sector and public sector unions. Nor do words like “California/blue state model” or “budget deficits” or “crushing amounts of government debt” appear. Perhaps a clued-in editor could have sent him back for a rewrite, with the assignment to include these terms in the discussion.
June 7th, 2012 | 12:04 pm
Well, of course I agree with that.
June 7th, 2012 | 6:24 pm
I also agree, Brian.
The author also neglected to mention that it’s actually the Democratic Party which has been giving (private sector) unions the shaft for the past four decades as well as being an even bigger cheerleader for economic neo-liberalism than the Right has. I’d say a lot of it has to do with the kind of people who took over the party in the early ’70′s.
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