(Tangent of another thread)
No not all are convictions nor am I going to post the details about everything listed there. But it shows a trend and good number of them are convictions.
Your own article states people with power buy their way in with government.
The entire point of government unions is to act in conjunction with the government and to seek power whenever possible. Manipulating the system and work for their own agenda witch ultimately means get more money from the government to it's union in one form or another.
Where do you think the government gets it's money from? The taxpayers are the ones who support our local economy for with out them there would be no one to support the government nor would there be a need for the services the government provides.
My intention is not to put ALL union workers in the electric chair but to point out that the union leaders are taking from not only the tax payers but their own members. That the union members are being taken advantage of by their own leaders with only a small payoff to the actual workers. That the workers/members pay taxes to the government. The government then pays the members who then pay the union leaders who in many cases use that money to line their own pockets instead of helping them as individuals. And that they seem to care less like the public has done in the past by electing poor leaders with their own self serving agenda.
The union leaders by ensuring the government and the taxpayers are held back from making decisions that would ultimately help the region as a whole are lining their own pockets while letting everyone else suffer.
The government workers want to see this region improve just as much as anyone else but their leaders are just as much at fault as the political leaders for holding the region back economically.
Everyone admits business’s leave the area because of the government and mainly taxes. The people who can afford to leave the area to seek jobs.
A job is a job. Low paying entry level jobs are exactly what we need in the area. This is what the unions do not understand. By forcing higher pay compared to other areas. Business would rather go else where and the reason why some company’s have left the area.
When business leave people become unemployed and receive money from the government. Now the government is forced to pay these people like it or not, it's not going to change. The people will not allow social services to change because a good percentage of the voters have used or will use one of those services at some point in their lives.
These programs suck our local economy dry.
Now by encouraging business locally based or not. Someone will have to provide the services and products these business offer thus creating jobs.
Creating jobs means less people requiring social services, less money required to be taxed and more people to pay the tax. Thus resulting in more money to pay the government jobs. Now if we use this method. The lower taxes and having more people with the skills required for better jobs. Moe company’s would move into the area and we would have a start and a potential twist to this downward spiral we are all caught up in.
The unions used to focus on a national level and they were quite effective in that. When they switched to the local instead of the national this is where they failed and became corrupted, especially in NY and even more so in NYC, resulting in the politicians at the state level creating the burden on us here.
With now having a global economy the unions should switch to a global level instead of a local one.
This is where the unions work best and have helped society and the “workers” the most. The unions were created to help the working class by creating standards and laws that apply to everyone in an industry, the working people as a whole. Their biggest accomplishments, they constantly reference themselves. Helped everyone against big business monopolies and the high paying leaders.
The problem is people lack to see is the unions have became the big business monopolies and the high paying leaders, originally created to fight against.
See I’m not against the concept of unions rather I’m against what they have become.
The county has to focus on what it can do at a county level instead of passing the blame onto the state and find ways to fund the mandates on a LOCAL level, like most every other county in the state. The county keeps spending money on telling the people the state makes us do this and that. When the money could be spent on finding ways to suck it up and deal.
That’s what the state legislators are for.
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