Why was even liberal hero FDR against Public unions and even warn us about them? Links inside?

Because once in a while he had some damn good ideas. Even President Franklin Roosevelt, a friend of private-sector unionism, drew a line when it came to government workers: “Meticulous attention,” the president insisted in 1937, “should be paid to the special relations and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government…. The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”

The reason? F.D.R. believed that “a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to obstruct the operations of government until their demands are satisfied. Such action looking toward the paralysis of government by those who have sworn to support it is unthinkable and intolerable.

If you have a public sector union the union knows there will be endless money to be taken because the government simply raises taxes to pay the demands of the union whereas a corporation will close the doors and go out of business or pick up and move to a friendlier business environment. Everytime a union pushes raises they also push taxes up.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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