MICKEY KAUS: “Unions Bend the Curve! ‘Card check’ may be stalled in Congress, but Fred Siegel and Dan DiSalvo report that public employee unions are still successfully bankrupting states and cities. . . . The justification for public sector unionism is way weaker than that for private sector unionism. ‘[Government] workers are not extracting a share of the profits but rather a share of taxes,’ as former N.Y. Liberal Party leader Alex Rose puts it. And the right to strike, in the hands of key public unions, approaches a blackmail power. But the political strength of the unions is such that even most Republicans, at the state and local level, are scared to question them. They gelded Arnold Schwarzenegger. You want to be next?”