Matt Blunt Balances Budget on Backs of Organized Bureaucrats

Apparently, Matt Blunt has determined, appropriately, that high labor costs are costing Missouri taxpayers money:

In Missouri, organized labor sees itself increasingly in the cross hairs of a Republican Legislature and Gov. Matt Blunt, said Ken Jacob, a former Democratic state senator who in January took over as executive director of the American Federation of State, Federal and Municipal Employees. For example, among Blunt's first actions as governor, he eliminated collective bargaining for about 30,000 state employees.

Government jobs, union jobs, and government union jobs force companies to take on long term contracts with ever-escalating benefits and leave the employers with little flexibility to adapt to downturns and changing conditions. To the union members and especially to the union organizers who suck dues money from members while sucking productivity and profitability from companies (and balanced budgets from governments) rightfully undestand that they, not union members, have the most to lose from changes to the status quo.

We applaud Matt Blunt for flouting large, although dwindling and dissolving, voting blocs for the betterment of the entire state.

(Link seen on Missourians Fired Up! Yeah, I've been letting them do my legwork recently, but I can always know comfortably that whatever they post bad over there is something we can laud here. Thanks, fellows! Hope Jay Nixon faces a different challenger for the governorship when Matt Blunt runs for president in 2008!)