The next battle: The public vs. public employee unions

It's quite clear that union supervisors in New York City told their charges to take their sweet time plowing the streets of America's largest city after last week's snowstorm.

These "public servants" care more about their union and their overtime dollars than doing their jobs.

Because NYC paramedics couldn't maneuver snow-clogged streets, a newborn and an elderly woman died.  Politically-important and well-to-do neighborhoods were singled out for the union-laziness effort--the yobos way of making a perverse statement.

Besides runaway pension costs, high salaries and wages, and the offense of government conspiring for more government--which is what happens when public employee unions supply Democratic candidates with volunteers and contributions--the spectacle of the New York slowdown is another reason why government workers should be barred from joining unions.

Conservatives should be pleased with the victories of the Tea Party last fall. But a larger battle looms--the public versus public employee unions.

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