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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If they've taken too much, the problem is with the people who are giving it away. As with, e.g., defense contractors. Unions don't allocate a municipality's revenues -- they bargain for their share.
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No. The problem is with both. The union has to realize when it's pushed too far and risks crisis. And the idiots conceding to it have to grow a fucking spine and put the interests of the kids and taxpayers, which they are charged with protecting, before their political futures.
But as SAM noted, curing self-interested behavior of indvividual humans is near impossible. Hence, I say let the shit break. Americans don't fix anything until we're in dire crisis. Then we come together admirably. Let's have that. Because this slow band-aid here, band-aid there approach to fixing schools, markets, etc... might be fine for people like you and me, but in the long run, it's really fucking the country in whole. And it will fuck our kids.
Yep, I just linked libertarianism with altruism.
