Coffee Cakes wrote:Senestrum wrote:They are representing their constituents in the best way they can, by doing whatever they can to stop a bill that will hurt said constituents. Regardless of whether you think the bill is good or not, they
are doing their job of representing those who elected them.
They owe their constituents at least a vote on the issue, whether it passes or fails. If they get outvoted, they can say they lost to GOP greed and use it as a talking point in 2012.
You're probably an oligarchal tool, but I'll pretend you just don't get the big picture and explain it.
Public Sector Unions are 3 of the 10 biggest contributors to American political campaigns- the other 7 are corporate and right-wing. Ever since the Supreme Court fucked up with
Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, those 10 entities are allowed to throw in as much money as they want to any political campaign they wish.
Now, as has been mentioned so many times, the provisions in the bill include a requirement for annual recertification in order for the PSUs to remain in existence, on top of destroying the right to collective bargaining. This in effect is trying to break up the PSUs by default.
Once PSUs cease to exist, that means the only real political finance entities remaining will all be corporate. Which means by and large, only Republicans with a good record for corporate whoring will have a realistic shot at any public office. And once those whores get elected, they will engineer the government to maximize profits for the corporations and minimize any benefits or rights of those working for them. I guarantee if this bill passes almost all of the 50 States will become Right to Work states with all the shit that comes with it.
And if PSUs can be destroyed, guess what? Private unions will be next, or will be irrelevant as the Republicans paid for by corporate money systemically legislate them out of existence.