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Mr. Curran's "Where I stand" submission (News-Times, Feb. 7) criticizing state Rep Dan Carter (and anything remotely Republican) is full of platitudes and inaccuracies.
First, public employee unions and their massive benefit and pension costs are a very large part of why the country is in economic peril today. Yes, the banksters and hedge fund managers took the bailout money, but politicians are the ones giving it to them.
These are the same politicians that write unfair labor laws giving tax monies to unionized workers, hurting non-union workers. The Democratic politicians' "quid pro quo" of large pension and benefit packages to public employee unions has mortgaged our children's future. Mr. Curran's letter does not mention the $76 billion (GAAP adjusted from stated $48 billion) of unfunded union pension and retirement care liability the state faces. Our children will have to pay the bill incurred by today's Democrats.
Unions do not "play by the rules" at all. Unions have been granted the state privilege of extortion and coercion when dealing with government and businesses. Historically, unions occupy and destroy private property and commit acts of violence with impunity.
I encourage all readers to check any economic analysis of unions. Unions are an economically and physically destructive part of our society, and have been since their inception. Unions impoverish everyone in society by driving up prices. Unions do not help other workers, their purpose is to put others out of work to artificially drive up labor costs for union members. Labor laws have consequences that are seen and unseen. Union wage increases are obvious. Impoverishment of other workers is not so obvious.
Some historical education on the destructive nature of unions may be found here: "Forgotten Facts of American Labor History," by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.; "The Strike-Threat System: The Economic Consequences of Collective Bargaining," By W. H. Hutt.
New Milford
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