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Monday, June 11. 2012

Political quote du jour

"I think the message is that, first of all, voters are seeing the fundamental unfairness of government becoming its own special interest group, sitting on both sides of the table."


Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, on Wisconsin

Posted by The Barrister at 11:52 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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How fair is this ?

http://missoulian.com/news/local/questions-raised-on-awarding-of-state-employees-health-clinic-contract/article_2ec42aec-b378-11e1-9973-001a4bcf887a.html
#1 applepie on 2012-06-11 12:23 (Reply)
The vicious circle of Democrats voting for union benefits and then getting union-funding of their election campaigns has got to stop. It has at least been reduced in Wisconsin.

Regarding the late great state of California's coming to its senses- all bets are off.
#2 Gringo on 2012-06-11 13:53 (Reply)
It's government negotiating with government of behalf of government. No one involved is paying the bill. It's corruption incarnate.
#3 ccoffer on 2012-06-11 15:05 (Reply)
Now the Chicago Teachers Union has authorized a strike! This should end well!
#3.1 annieoakley on 2012-06-12 00:10 (Reply)
It's the same issue as the one raised in the "risk" post above: avoid positive feedback loops, and we should be fine. That means you can't collectivize loss while keeping gain private, and it also means you can't set up a self-feeding circle where taxpayers pay salaries to public workers whose paychecks are automatically docked to pay lobbyists to bribe politicians to vote for raises for the public workers.
#4 Texan99 (Link) on 2012-06-12 09:13 (Reply)

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