- Even More Union Stupidity

You have to ask yourself what the Greek civil servants are thinking; what exactly do they hope to get out of a general strike right now. They’re protesting the government’s proposed budget cuts, but it’s not like the government is going to be able to do anything about it. There is no money. They can’t borrow it, they can’t print it, they literally have no options… the spending must be cut.

But that slice of reality is not going to stop the unions. They will simply refuse to accept that fact; in the hope that they’re refusal will somehow change it. Of course, this kind of blatant denial isn’t unique to our Mediterranean cousins. The unions in California are doing their best to drive that state off the cliff financially as well, and don’t even get me started about the kind of idiocy we’ve seen from the civil servant unions in NJ. It’s as if you turn in your brain when you pick up your union card. (Or maybe the union gets half and the other half is just tossed away when you accept a government job… that would explain a lot.)

I particularly liked the quote that the mindless AP reporter managed to get:

"It wasn't the workers who took all the money, it was the plutocracy. It's them who should give it back," said Alexandros Potamitis, a 57-year-old retired merchant seaman.

Actually Mr. Potamitis the workers are EXACTLY who it was. If the liberal Media will allow me to co-opt a phrase of theirs, the civil servants unions are like a giant blood sucking squid on the face of the world's financial systems. They reduce the output as much as possible, increase the costs as much as possible, and make things as uncompetitive as they can in an effort to get more while producing less. They are precisely who took all the money, and since that's so, they are the ones who are going to have to give a good portion of it back.

So how will this end? Who knows. Like spoiled children, unions have a long history of resorting to violence when they don’t get their way, and after all the pampering I don’t imagine we’ll see any better from the civil servants. They’ve been promised a long life of leisure and comfort, but those promises can’t possible be met, either in Greece or in America. So what will they do? I dunno… I can never understand what people this detached from reality are going to do. But I’ll tell you this much, I may not understand the clueless union membership, but I understand governments. And nothing solves a labor riot as effectively as live ammunition. And if the unions force the issue I don't think they'll have problem resorting to it.