"If you're explaining, you're losing"
Our chief of police once told me "if you're explaining, you're losing." I assure you, the comment was a) not directed at me, and b) not offered in any official capacity. But I have remembered it.
Governor Kasich seems a bit on the defensive in this Columbus Dispatch article:
"'I'm not anti-union,' Kasich said. 'I think unions are an important part of the American fabric, but what we're doing here is basically to start sticking up for taxpayers and private-sector workers who have made enormous sacrifices over the last decade.'
Governor Kasich seems a bit on the defensive in this Columbus Dispatch article:
"'I'm not anti-union,' Kasich said. 'I think unions are an important part of the American fabric, but what we're doing here is basically to start sticking up for taxpayers and private-sector workers who have made enormous sacrifices over the last decade.'
Kasich said that the collective-bargaining overhaul 'is one piece of an overall reform agenda' to be largely revealed in his two-year state budget on March 15. The budget is designed 'to stabilize the state so that we can have economic growth, job creation and entrepreneurship,' he said."
Fireworks on the agenda.
I never cared for Kasich as a politician and I don't know him in any other capacity. Statements like this are a good part of that reason. Lying about not being against the 2nd Amendment is another.
Today's unions, especially public sector unions, are nothing more than a money laundering scheme for Democrats. They confiscate taxpayer funds to support anything and everything that unions are involved in and then unions give back to the Democratic party through political contributions. That's not to say that Republicans don't do money laundering in similar ways with other entities, but it should be criminal either way.
I'd have some respect for him if he'd just tell the truth. Unions give a huge amount of support to his opposition. Of course he's anti-union. Maybe he means that he admires their tenacity in the same game that he plays.
He may not be against the people that are trapped as union employees, but he offers no out for them. They need protection from the union and giving them the fair option to opt out and still remain employed is the only solution for that.
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I agree with your advice. State your position rather than what is not your position.
KJH
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I've never known Kasich to formulate a coherent argument on any subject. You get the impression that, though he talks endlessly, he can't think. FDR and George Meaney were far more articulate on the subject of why government employees shouldn't be allowed to unionize.
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