An excerpt from the article, Public Sector Unions and Basic Morality, in The American Spectator:
Years ago President Franklin Roosevelt called the idea of public sector unions "unthinkable and intolerable." Not long after, AFL-CIO President George Meany declared that it was "impossible to bargain collectively with the government." They were both speaking to the morality of public servants making demands on taxpayers' earnings under the threat of withholding public services -- or as FDR put it, "looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it."
You can read the rest of the article here: http://spectator.org/archives/2011/02/23/public-sector-unions-and-basic
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