Hawkins: It was not my intention to ignore your post as it is related to well thought out questions and easy to understand. I am aware that I do get out of bounds some times on the subject but to me all things have been reality. I have related education to the written books that other have written. It only seems a duplication in the description of the part of the elephant that you place you hand on in the darkest of night. Ones IQ or common horse sense is now and tomorrow the guiding factor as to success in life.
I am a native of Tulsa and have been a free agent for the last 89 years. I have negotiated labor contracts for the union and in time where it was not uncommon to be ask to leave the owners office when suggesting that employees make better workers if they are given a paid week off. Then when even suggest at other time that their bills continue when they are taking a holiday of and would make better workers if they could relax knowing they could meet the bills for the holiday. Response “Hell man don’t know who owns this company and who is an employee“. Many time I would have to meet with the late Mr. Emory of the US Conciliation service to keep from being thrown out of the office.
You can take a group of workers and get the election held at that time and once it was certified would if not kept under constant control become violent. It stretches ones imagination to believe these workers, as a group do not make unreasonable demands. I have had many employees in operating other business so one can say I have been on both sides of the fence and may be prejudice as to where the grass is greener.
Since the council is supposed to be a cross section of the city population with some having employer/employee relationship it would be most appropriate for them to negotiate the union contract at the table then they will realize why the unions receive an un-audited majority of the general funding provided the tax paying public dedicated to two unions with many perks.
Having already said I was not very fond of the mayor when he was on the council but the crisis he is trying to place a band-aid on was established by previous city officials who allowed the unions to bagger the negotiators into signing contracts without respect to the needs of the aged and working poor. Let alone bankrupting the city in time. If such were to happen the union would only take its check book and walk away while the mayor keeps trying to sort out the mess that has been dumped on his plate. Time is not favorable to dreamers as the reaper with the scepter in hand watches over them.
Democracy is only a word in the dictionary. In our life span they have fought at four wars costing thousands of lives still we call its democracy as we place armed guards beside the ballot boxes and troops to enforce the supposed democracy.
Before we have come out of such crisis with the beat of the drums of war.
PS 17588 look behind you where greed has a hold on the future and BOA has established a special line to transfer money to Mexico.
