Snark of the day

[nancylebov]

From Yglesias:

What you do with the contracting is that instead of handing money over to unionized public sector workers who hand some of the money back to Democratic Party politicians, you hand the money over to a contracting firm that hands some of the money back to Republican Party politicians.

Link thanks to The Agitator.

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Well, that's not entirely accurate about the unionized public sector workers. They don't hand the money back themselves; rather, they have it taken from them by union officials who hand it back, with or without their consent. One of the big developments in Wisconsin was that when the state stopped withholding union dues from state employees' paychecks, a large fraction of the state employees—over half the ones represented by AFSCME, I believe—stopped paying dues. Which doesn't exactly strike me as evidence that the unions were serving their members.

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

when the state stopped withholding union dues from state employees' paychecks, a large fraction of the state employees—over half the ones represented by AFSCME, I believe—stopped paying dues.

Given how the state crippled unions' ability to negotiate terms & conditions for their members, union membership may no longer have looked like a good deal. Which, of course, was precisely the point of the exercise.

[avram]

Nancy, you misspelled Yglesias. (Is Yngle a louse?)