[quote=harvey][quote=CA renter]You really don’t seem to understand the relationship between taxpayers and govt employees. Taxpayers are *consumers,* not shareholders or employers. Government employees are accountable to their employers — the agencies they work for — and the bosses/politicians who oversee them.[/quote]
Soooo…
Government employees are accountable to their employers
And their employers are also government employees…
[…] and the bosses/politicians who oversee them.
Politicians? You mean more government employees?
Hmmm….Government employees are accountable to government employees?
What a wonderfully inbred system of checks and balances![/quote]
Wrong. Elected officials are not the same as “boots on the ground” employees. Not only that, but those elected officials (and many of their managerial underlings/equals) might be extremely anti-union. The are NOT “on the same side of the table,” under any circumstances.
Private corporations and other, anti-labor special interest groups also contribute to campaigns and control politicians — every bit as much as unions (or worse!). There is no way you can characterize politicians as being pro-union; you need to learm more about all the other players and how they interact with the system. The system can easily be very anti-labor, which seems to be the case right now.
