Comments by "Ōkami-san" (@mweibleii) on "Caller: Why do Government Workers Need Protection from Government?" video.

  1. silat13 Private unions are virtuous. No one in their right mind would suggest people should not have the civil right to self organization. Public unions OTOH are a menace to society. A good example of this would be Government Teacher's Unions. American Government Teachers are some of the highest paid teachers in the world. Yet, at the same time, 1 in 5 students that graduate from a Government School with a diploma (barely worth the paper it's written on) are functionally illiterate. In Detroit, it's 50%. Yet in Detroit Government Teacher's Unions secured a 13th month bonus paid and many are paid 2 - 3 times the average yearly salary of the people in Detroit they're supposedly serving. Only 1 out of 3 kids in Detroit bother graduating, it's such a waste of time. Many of the Government School teacher's themselves have a poor command of the English language. Some are outright functional illiterates themselves. This is why Government Unions exist - to protect them from the Voters who'd otherwise throw them out on their arse (if they were paying out of pocket). No sane person would pay $20 a year for such pathetic 'education' culminating in a degree not worth the paper it's written on.  When citizens do attempt to provide good high quality education through private Chartered schools, these same Government Unions try to use every dirty trick in the book, even the Government itself, in their attempts to retain their monopoly position in the education market. This same story plays out across ALL aspects of Government. Which is why you'll stand in line at the DMV for hours on end, just to get a stamp from a functionally illiterate Government Union-member who's job could be replaced by the free-market and a computer in the matter of weeks at 1/10th the cost to the tax payer. Government Unions are essentially there to protect Government employees from the Tax Payer, who would otherwise, fire the lot of them.
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