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Old 12-30-2010, 11:15 AM   #11
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: A little Christmas present for Penske

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield View Post
But they can be blamed, among other forces, for causing the sorry state of many schools. Where they've taken too much, like an investor/owner deciding it's better to liquidate the pieces of a company than operate it, the death of the entity is at least partly based on the union's decision to allocate more of the entity's revenues to themselves than to the continued operation of the entity. Nothing wrong with that. But technically, it does warrant "blame."
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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