Government union quiz

Katherine Kersten:

Here's a quiz: Who said that the prospect of a strike by a government union is "unthinkable and intolerable?"

Who said, "It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government"?

Was it Reagan? Palin? Did Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker utter these provocative words?

No, no and no. The first quote is from Franklin Roosevelt -- that champion of working people. The second is from George Meany, the AFL-CIO's legendary first president.

Today, Gov. Walker is under siege in his bold fight to rein in public unions.

Walker is one of a growing number of governors who aim to close their state's yawning budget deficit while engineering long-term fixes that will head off a fiscal train wreck -- the otherwise inevitable result of exploding public-union pensions and benefits.

Walker's reward is to hear enraged Wisconsin teachers liken him to Adolf Hitler.

President Obama condemns Walker's "assault" on unions, and our own Gov. Mark Dayton denounces his "drastic" attempts to "steal" workers' rights.

Public-union supporters would have us believe that government employees' right to bargain collectively was handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. In fact, these unions are of relatively recent vintage, and some states don't allow them.

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There is more.

Collective bargaining is not a right it is a privilege and it has been abused by the unions and the Democrats who get money from them and then negotiate bigger contracts for them. Taxpayers should have the right to say no. That is what they did when they elected Republicans in Wisconsin and elsewhere. It is time for the government to say no to this inherent conflict of interest. To the extent unions exist they should also be prohibited from donating to someone who will be in a position to negotiate a contract with them.
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