MICKEY KAUS ON THE STIMULUS FAILURE:It would be reductive and predictable for me to point out th…

from Instapundit by Glenn Reynolds:

MICKEY KAUS ON THE STIMULUS FAILURE:

It would be reductive and predictable for me to point out that all three of these Obama-era problems have a single cause: public employee unions, which helped delay the stimulus, which protect non-essential jobs along with essential jobs, and which negotiate unsustainable layoff-inducing benefits packages (because it’s easier to win a union leadership election if you increase the benefits of 90% of your members while laying off 10% than if you lower the benefits of 100% of your workers by 10%–and piss them all off).

So I won’t do that. …

I also won’t point out that FDR didn’t have to deal with public employee unions. And when his WPA faced a strike by traditional unions, he broke it.

FDR couldn’t make it in today’s Democratic Party.