{"id":15475,"date":"2012-06-07T17:50:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:50:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-07T17:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:50:26","slug":"police_unions_and_leftist_ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/06\/07\/police_unions_and_leftist_ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Unions and Leftist Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Laredo, Texas. This is Marco. Thank you for calling. I appreciate your patience, and welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh. Thank you very much, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a long-time listener, second-time caller.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, great. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was calling because I was listening to your podcast this morning, and I heard you talk about the police unions and what you talk about with the unions… And I am a Border Patrol agent down here in Laredo, Texas, and it\u2019s also unionized. So… But the only thing we have the union for is protection from the management, pretty much. Where they can\u2019t really get onto us and try and gyp us out of work or any kinds of things like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I appreciate your call, Marco, and I understand. I got a letter, an e-mail from a police officer in Wellington, Florida — which is, you know, just over there. Yeah. It\u2019s over there. And he gets it; he understands. We were talking yesterday about municipal employees <\/a>— unionized state employees — in Wisconsin<\/a>, primarily. But extrapolated, we could have been talking everywhere. And about their characteristics. Here\u2019s the thing. This is happening all over the country. Do you know there\u2019s a story in the Palm Beach Post today?<\/p>\n

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Do you read the Palm Beach Post, you guys in there? (interruption) Ha! We have three people here that don\u2019t… (long pause) Not since June 5th two years ago…? (interruption) You haven\u2019t read the Palm Beach Post since my wedding? (interruption) What did they do? (interruption) Ohhhh! Oh. Oh. Oh, yeah. They tried to blow our surprise of having Elton John as the entertainment. Yeah. Well, anyway, they have a story about Palm Beach police officers. And apparently a Palm Beach police officer here (not over there, here) has been fired.<\/p>\n

A Palm Beach police officer has been fired for writing too many tickets. And the story says that it is happening because the City of Palm Beach has reduced pensions. The City of Palm Beach, Florida, has done what is happening in Wisconsin with both the firefighters and the police officers. They\u2019ve made changes in the long-term pension agreement. Wages are not increasing as rapidly. And one of the police officers is quoted in the story as saying, “Okay, let\u2019s see how Palm Beachers like it if we now start picking them up for speeding and DUI.”<\/p>\n

The story implies that there\u2019s an unwritten rule that the cops will look the other way. But this one police officer has written, I think it\u2019s in one month, the total number of tickets he wrote all year. Because now raises are based on merit, and so forth. It\u2019s a tantamount admission. Anyway, the only reason I\u2019m mentioning it is because it\u2019s here. It has relevance to us talking whole issue of public employee unions. And there just isn\u2019t the money to honor all of these deals that were made years ago.<\/p>\n

You can understand the union members. I mean, they had a deal. Somebody made the deal with them. Now the money isn\u2019t there, and the deal has to be changed. You can understand their being angry. I guess the thing that… See, I assume that people understand too much. I ought to not assume that. I assume that everybody understands that when I talk about this or anything, it\u2019s through the prism of ideological politics: Left versus right. And I assume that everybody understands that my criticism is aimed at the ideological component of whatever issue we\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

So when we\u2019re talking about Wisconsin and the recall of Scott Walker, I am talking about the ideological left and its ideas for what kind of country we ought to have.<\/p>\n

And I mean this when I say it: They don\u2019t care whether the state\u2019s bankrupt. They don\u2019t care whether the people paying their salaries don\u2019t have the money to pay it. They don\u2019t care; they just want! This is not an indictment of everybody. It\u2019s not an indictment of people. There are a lot of people, by the way, in Wisconsin — liberal Democrats, according to the exit polls, if you can believe it (and who knows), who don\u2019t agree with Walker but didn\u2019t want him thrown out of office because they don\u2019t like the idea of constant recalls and kicking people out of office just because of policy.<\/p>\n

Exit poll data showed this. So I assume that, for example, a conservative cop driving around who is a public employee would understand that my criticism is not aimed at any of these people personally, but rather the leadership who\u2019s leading this charge trying to change the very structure of the country with their effort. That\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to defend. I understand that everybody wants a better life. Everybody wants a raise, everybody wants higher pay, everybody would like these things.<\/p>\n

We all do.<\/p>\n

The argument has always been, “How do you get it?” I come from the school that you earn it yourself. That happens to be old-fashioned and out of favor with a lot of liberals who think that\u2019s unfair. There ought to be more equity. That\u2019s what the argument is about. But every chance we get on this program, we defend people who work. Every day. Those are the people that we do support. They\u2019re not asking for freebies, not asking for what other people have just \u2019cause they have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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