Originally Posted by Robbie

No, you just think I'm "right" leaning because you are very left leaning. So everything that isn't way over left seems "right" to you.

As for my union comment...yes, a hundred years ago unions were definitely needed. And they are still needed today. But like all bureaucracies, they have gone too far in my opinion.

For instance...govt. "unions". They weren't even LEGAL until Johnson.
FDR even warned against EVER allowing govt. workers to unionize.

Why are they unionized? I thought the federal govt. was all benevolent and great according to democrats? Would the feds suddenly become a sweat shop and dangerous work environment?

And how can anybody justify taking tax dollars and giving govt. employees big paychecks and "benefits"?

It's just insane in my opinion. The govt. should get and spend just enough money to efficiently do the work of the people. Nothing more, nothing less.

Instead it's a huge bloated monster that just keeps growing and growing.

When they talk of "cuts" it isn't what us normal people think of when we say we have to cut something.
For them it means INCREASING the amount of spending a little less than what they had originally planned on INCREASING it!

It's like a bizarro-world and it would be funny except they are stealing money from all of us to do it.