I know I just posted about this budget crap the other day, but I'm really pissed. First of all, and this is a minor point, but I'm perplexed at how little media coverage there is. Every other year the media are on this weeks ahead of time, screaming about how government will collapse and children will be starving in the streets. This year it actually looks like a furlough may happen, and there's hardly anything. Maybe it's just locally because everyone is focused on Lukey's latest antics (don't get me wrong, that sucks too, but Luke going golfing isn't going to cost 24,000 people their paychecks...yet).
Anyway, what got me re-pissed-off was reading about Fast Eddie comparing this situation to a transit strike in Philadelphia back in the 90's, as reported by the PG's Tracie Mauriello.
OK. Growing up in the dying industry of northeastern Ohio, I know unions and strikes come with their own political quagmires--don't get me started on how many times I've seen everyday workers get crushed between the dualing machines of business and unions. But let's take a gross oversimplification for a second and look at what a strike is: Party A and Party B do not agree, so Party B chooses to not work and not get paid.
How in the world is this situation comparable? Party A and Party B can't agree, so Party C is not allowed to work or get paid. 24,000 people who presumably would be more than willing to go to work on Monday and earn their paychecks will be told they can't, and won't get paid, and there is not a damn thing they can do about it.
Sorry Ed--those are not the same thing, not by a long shot, and shame on you for saying that they are. At what point do these people accomplish little enough that we can declare them to be not "essential to public health, safety and welfare," and furlough them, too?
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