Shadowbosses: Too Many Government Union Bricks
It once happened that a large walled city came under attack from raiders. The inhabitants came to a public meeting to decide how best to defend their city from invasion.
Shadowbosses version of Aesop’s fable of the Three Tradesmen
At the meeting, the head of the Bricklayer’s Union stood up. “Bricks!” he thundered. “They’re the best way to defend against invasion. Build walls full of ’em. And it won’t cost you too much.”
“No, no!” interjected the head of the Carpenter’s Guild. “Timber, sharpened to points, makes an excellent defense! And wood is even cheaper and stronger than bricks.” “I beg to differ,” the head of the Leatherman’s Local cried to the crowd. “Leather will provide the best resistance for our city, far better than sticks or bricks.”
From Mallory and Elizabeth Factor’s SHADOWBOSSES: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind:
LEATHER obviously wouldn’t do much to protect the city from attack, but that didn’t stop the leather tradesman from making his pitch. This fable has been used for thousands of years to teach children a simple truth: every man is out for his own trade, even when their city’s future rests in the balance. And America’s future certainly does rest in the balance.
But unlike the walled city in the fable, our celebrated “city on a hill” is threatened from within. America is under attack. Our nation’s finances are ruinous. We face out-of-control government spending and deficits. Our states are going bankrupt. And instead of working on defending us against these calamities, our government is making the problem worse by following the advice of tradesmen out for their own trades.
Our government keeps buying government union bricks, hand over fist. It purchases and stockpiles government union wood. And our government has signed a long-term contract with government union leather merchants. Yet our government is quickly running out of money and borrows from foreign nations to pay its bills. Meanwhile, our undefended city walls are weak and starting to crumble. When outside forces come to threaten us again, we will no longer have the resources to mount an adequate defense to save our people. And our very American way of life will be threatened.
The biggest issues of our time are tied up with the growth of government employee unions and the resulting growth of government. When people talk about America borrowing more than it can pay back, the growth of government is the cause. When people warn us that America is becoming reliant on foreign lenders like China and oil-rich Arab states, excessive government spending is really to blame. When people worry about our states and municipalities nearing insolvency, government employee unions are again at the root.
Government employee unions and politicians have been working on growing our government for decades. The growth of our government may be in the unions’ interest, but it endangers our nation. Growing government hurts all the taxpayers, the people who make our nation’s pie. The losers include private-sector union members who are also pie makers and don’t share the same interest in growing our government as government-employee union members.
Read “Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind” to learn the full story of how government unions are eating the American pie and likely why even FDR opposed government unionism.
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