Apathy of the Public and the Paralysis of the Power in LA
This article first appeared on ronkayela.com.
How did it come to pass that we, the people, wound up working for the
unions instead of the unions, the public employee unions, working for us?
We can’t blame them for the state of our city. We let it happen by doing
nothing while they organized and pursued what was good for them. They
joined forces with other special interests like developers, contractors,
lobbyists and started electing the people they wanted to into office,
people who serve their interests far better than the public interest.
Even when that became obvious years ago, we did nothing about. We didn’t
pay attention. We didn’t vote. We let them write their own contracts,
their own work rules, the laws they wanted.
Ron Kaye
September 18, 2009