According to Fox News on-line, back on May 1, 2012, Indiana Governor, Mitch Daniels, took part in a panel discussion at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California and suggested that public unions should go.
His comment came right after Scott Walker's history-making recall victory as Governor of Wisconsin, while Daniels himself has a record of curtailing union benefits in his own state.
He then suggested on Fox News Sunday that public-sector unions are past their prime and should be abolished, stating that “I think, really, government works better without them."
Not surprisingly, Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association (NEA), said Walker's victory was in part a product of "unlimited corporate funding in elections," and that Walker's side simply was able to push out it’s message better than the governor's opponents.
As for me, although pleased that folks are now finding that unions aren’t impervious and can be successfully challenged, I was certainly not surprised by the NEA’s reaction. However, I truly believe that Mr. Van Roekel’s wrong.
Because although it’s correct that significant funds were spent in getting out the anti-union message, what’s different right now is that the message has not only finally been heard, but also been seen to work. And consequently, I now expect the examples to be followed all over the nation.
And while Governor Daniels belief that government’s work better without unions, just wait until folks see the results that happen when teachers are forced to produce or else. Because I haven’t a whit of doubt that kids will finally begin to actually gain an education and later on, find businesses willing to hire them as well.
So in one big fell swoop we’ll solve two huge national problems. By voting the NEA out, the cost of greatly improved education will reduce and so will unemployment.
That’s it for today folks.
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