Posted by JM Ashby
Welcome to the new incivility, same as the old incivility.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) used gun imagery Sunday while discussing public workers' collective bargaining rights.
"In some of these states you've got collective bargaining laws that are so weighted in favor of the public employees that there’s almost no bargaining," he told CBN's David Brody.
"We've given them a machine gun and put it right at the heads of the local officials and they really have their hands tied." [...]
"I think what you're seeing in these states is they're trying to bring some balance to these negotiations that when you look at the pay of public employees today and you look at their retirement benefits they are way out of line with many other working Americans," Boehner added.
Yeah, damn those government employees and their cushy lives, many of whom are living paycheck to paycheck just like everyone else! So Lazy!
The problem with this argument is that strong union representation benefits every worker in the state, not just those in a union.