How to Break the Chicago Teachers Strike in 7 Days

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teapartyeconomist.com / by Gary North / September 11, 2012

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.” — Rahm Emanuel (Nov. 2008).

He said that when he was President Obama’s Chief of staff. Today, he is Mayor of Chicago. The teachers union is on strike. About 350,000 students have no schools to go to. They are being looked after in churches and other private facilities.

If he were not a screaming liberal, he could solve this in 7 days. It requires a 30-day program to make it stick. Permanently.

Here is Dr. North’s sure-fire 30-day remedy for any teachers’ strike.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT

First, the Mayor cites the statement sent by Governor Calvin Coolidge to Samuel Gompers, head the American Federation of Labor, in 1819 during the strike of the Boston police. “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, any time.” That phrase made him famous nationally. The next year, he was nominated as Vice President by the Republican Party. He was elected in 1920. He became President when Harding died in 1923. He then oversaw the boom of the 1920s. His career rested on that telegram.

The public knows that this policy is right morally. Public employees are highly paid — far higher than the private sector. They do not work as hard or as long as private sector employees do. They are protected from being fired. They get this in exchange for not striking. As soon as an public employees union threatens a strike, it is fair game politically. The politicians can and should refuse to negotiate.

We are living in the last days of public employees unions. Their pensions are breaking city, county, and state governments. There will be widespread defaults. The way to escape is to declare bankruptcy. Voters have had enough — more than enough. Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin legislature called the unions’ bluff in 2011. They passed legislation outlawing union strikes. The state’s unions tried to recall him in June, 2012. They failed. This is in a traditionally pro-union state, right next door to Illinois. The public employee unions are now a paper tiger. It is time to challenge them if they threaten to strike. All of them. Every time.

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