Re: NYT: Borrowing Language of Civil Rights Movement, Drive Is On To Unionize Guards
On Jul 26, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
Any professors want to share wisdom on how this fits the evil seiu
scheme to keep people from getting health care by gaming the
welfare system?
Hmm, don’t recall any professors, aside from maybe Adolph Reed,
making that point. I guess it’s just a bit of authentic proletarian
disdain for intellekshuels then. SEIU’s health care strategy sucks.
It deliberately avoids - and Stern isn’t above a little xenophobia
here about “Canadian imports” - the only sensible solution, a
universal single-payer system (which polls very well), in favor of
some mysterious, complex scheme, probably some bastard offspring of
the fraudulent Massachusetts plan (which you couldn’t poll about
because it’s impossible to explain in less than 20,000 words). It’s
bad policy and bad politics, and you don’t have to be some kind of
pointy-head to think so.
Doug