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by the elected officials and appointed bureaucrats,
for the elected officials, appointed bureaucrats and special interest groups

Michael Kaery

My biggest hate is the the power the police unions have taken which means the police unions get their people elected. And elected officials owned by the police unions pass laws to have people arrested for victimless crimes, mostly victimless drug war crimes, to give the cops more jobs. Sadly America has turned into the worlds largest police state because of that.

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Letter: Maybe feds should step on union toes

Jim Barber 8:38 p.m. MST November 6, 2016

Robert Robb’s op-ed concerning the paralysis faced by state government agencies trying to change the culture in their departments ("Tim Jeffries' firing spree brings up much larger issues") can be equally applied to the federal government.

Entrenched bureaucrats abetted by civil service unions are more interested in consolidating power and guaranteeing job security than doing the people’s business. The idea that such power needs to be addressed is foreign to the left and daunting to the most rabid smaller-government advocate.

No one deserves a guaranteed job, which the civil service unions have, for all intents and purposes, achieved. Even Franklin D. Roosevelt, demigod of the left, warned of the danger of unionization of the civil service.

No one suggests government employees don’t have a right to protection from unjust punishment and dismissal. But in a rapidly changing world, government bureaucracies intent on maintaining the status quo are an economic disaster.

It’s time for lawmakers to make sure that agencies return to carrying out the mandates that created them. That means stepping on union toes and requires political courage – a rare commodity.

— Jim Barber, Mesa