I was reading the Pharyngula comments on this and the Randian libertarians kept trolling the comments and kept coming out with the fact that government employees shouldn't be allowed to be in a union because... well, they didn't really have a because, but it was something vague around being employed by the people meant you had to do it yourself or something.
It was at that point that I realised, no matter how much US culture Australia imports, there are chasms between our ways of thinking of the world that are unbridgeable. Not all Americans think this way, of course, but that they can think that at all baffles me. I also liked the constant cry of "my job in the private sector sucks and I get no benefits, so the public sector should be dragged down to my level!". Not, maybe, the private sector should be made to improve their working conditions...
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It was at that point that I realised, no matter how much US culture Australia imports, there are chasms between our ways of thinking of the world that are unbridgeable. Not all Americans think this way, of course, but that they can think that at all baffles me. I also liked the constant cry of "my job in the private sector sucks and I get no benefits, so the public sector should be dragged down to my level!". Not, maybe, the private sector should be made to improve their working conditions...
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