I have to say this, and hope to add to it in the days ahead, but I'm very disappointed in the way that certain Church leaders are addressing the current standoff between Governor Scott Walker and the public-sector unions, disappointed but not at all surprised. I have become all too accustomed to subpar analysis when it comes to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and economic matters.
I have posted links to numerous articles (Here's another gem) that spell out what is really at stake in this debate about public-sector unions:
- why the unions are clearly in the wrong
- the long history of public-sector unions
- the difference between public and private-sector unions
- how public-sector unions have become one of many appendages of the Democratic Party
- why such unions are critical to the advancement of that same Party which is, as we speak, pursuing a vicious anti-life and anti-family agenda.
and so on.
What are the bishops reading when it comes to this subject? Are they just restating talking points from another era?
By their statements, certain bishops are demonstrating that they are not really following the intricacies of the discussion, and, more to the point, they really don't understand economics. This results in awkward statements that appear utterly detached from reality, while the Democrats continue to play them like a stradivarius.
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