POTUS Is Trying His Best

Obama is a big supporter of unions. This is hardly surprising in view of the fact that unions poured untold sums into his campaign. Now they expect something in return. POTUS is trying his best.

What no one seems to realize is that what you do to one, you’re also doing to the other. Favoring the union at the expense of all others will end up bankrupting both. Obama’s vision in this regard is extremely near-sighted. I think he feels that if he can fake it through the next election cycle, he’s home free.

From what I hear - as is the case in the country in general - there’s a split between the rank-and-file and the leadership. The former see their fortunes waning while seeing their leaders supporting policies they themselves oppose. Union membership, where it applies, is mandated; as is the withholding of union dues and all the rest.

Union members understand that if their salaries and benefit packages end up bankrupting the nation, they will find themselves out on the streets as well. At the same time, if their signed contracts are forced into renegotiation, a basic premise of American commerce begins to erode. If existing contracts can not be enforced, who will even bother to sign? Might as well have mob rule (which depends on how many knee caps can be broken), or shariah.

The point is, we’re still pretending that any of this can be saved, when we should be checking our survival equipment. To keep this illusion of ‘plenty’ going will from now on require an ever more intricate complex of smoke and mirrors. The time is long passed for simple solutions.

The stray dogs on Chennai’s Breezy Beach observe a different drummer. They pay no attention to humans, or to the dogs belonging to humans. They pay attention only to themselves. They exist in a parallel universe which one is privileged only to observe. The American public too must prepare for the inevitable break with its leadership. They will not be brutal as the French were in the aftermath of their revolution. They’ll be content to watch their self-proclaimed elite masters spin off into irrelevancy - a pod, crammed with polls, news media and professorial types, all jettisoned from the mother ship to tumble out into deep space has-been.

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