A note or two about governing while hiding under a rock.

More than a week ago, Senate Democrats in Wisconsin, fled the state and went into hiding.

This morning, it is reported that House Democrats in Indiana have fled that state to avoid voting on legislation they deem as anti-union.

I have to tell you, two years ago I had tears in my eyes thinking about the ruin being caused to this country. Taking back America is the prevailing theme of the current grassroots revolt. Without Obama, I believe there would have been no such revolt.

The national Democrat party is screaming about the fantasy threat of a GOP governmental shutdown. But who is more willing to shut down government?

I think I have the answer and it is found in Wisconsin and Indiana . . . . . . . maybe Ohio and West Virginia. Which party shows a willingness to shut down government until it gets its way? Which party actually thinks the "people" owes them a living and security and benefits and long lived retirement funds? We all know the answer, don't we [that was a statement, not a question, hence the omitted "?"] .

I have written this post as an excuse to enter this quote from the godfather of American unionism -- FDR. By the mid-1950s and as a result of what FDR began, private sector unions owned 35% of the American work force. They collected and paid their own retirement programs. Their path to collective bargaining did not effect the taxpayer as a taxpayer. What most do not know is this, FDR did not support the notion of public, taxpayer financed, unions.

Here is what he had to say on the subject:

In a little-known letter he wrote to the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees in 1937, Roosevelt wrote these timely words:

"... 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."

Understand that public employees are government, They cannot strike without "shutting down government." It is not possible.

FDR's last comment is exactly what is happening. We are watching a group of people perfectly willing to shut down the democratic process in order to get their own way. They are no more concerned for their students or for the will of the people that they can fly without wings or eat without paying for their meals.

If FDR was alive, he would not stand in support of what is happening in today's union "movement." And the larger US population is losing interest in the selfish concerns of these public unions, as well.

Know this: another way of saying "public unions" is to say "publicly financed unions." The two phrases are precisely the same.

'Nough said until the next post, of course.

Question: what if all state Democrats went into hiding ? Would that really be a bad thing?

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