"Civil Service rules insulated government employees from political demands, but also made firing the incompetent more difficult.
The final barrier to accountability was the addition of another layer of employee empowerment, the public employee union.
Private-sector unions are not the enormous political force they once were, but public-sector unions have continued to grow until they now control one of the two US political parties and have driven many state and local governments to near-bankruptcy, with underfunded pension and medical coverage for retirees taking a larger and larger share of local government revenues.
How did we get here?..."
Table 1: Public Sector Unions: Top Contributors to Federal Candidates, Parties, and Outside Groups, 2014 Election Cycle. Source: Open Secrets.org Center for Responsive Politics
To Candidates and Parties
|
To Outside Spending Groups
| |||||
Rank
|
Contributor
|
Total Contribs
|
Total
|
Dem%
|
Repub%
|
Total
|
1
|
$24,961,199
|
$2,183,752
|
91.1%
|
8.8%
|
$22,787,447
| |
2
|
$10,002,495
|
$2,288,816
|
99.2%
|
0.3%
|
$7,717,155
| |
3
|
$4,797,032
|
$2,484,870
|
98.8%
|
0.8%
|
$2,312,162
| |
4
|
$4,072,005
|
$1,019,250
|
94.3%
|
5.6%
|
$3,052,755
| |
5
|
$2,184,303
|
$1,948,946
|
84.4%
|
15.6%
|
$235,357
| |
6
|
$2,113,796
|
$1,688,360
|
94.9%
|
4.9%
|
$425,436
| |
7
|
$1,007,341
|
$988,950
|
98.8%
|
1.2%
|
$18,391
| |
8
|
$735,500
|
$735,500
|
76.8%
|
23.0%
|
$0
| |
9
|
$681,550
|
$631,550
|
96.1%
|
3.9%
|
$50,000
|
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