[mattmcknight]

Do public sector unions make any sense at all? Are the members ultimately being protected from themselves as voters in a democracy? When you have a government monopoly on providing the service and a union monopoly on providing the labor...monopoly pricing seems likely.

All defined benefit pensions should be converted to defined contribution at current value.

[jswinghammer]

I'm not really sure how they could make sense given that no one is representing the interests of the state itself in the negotiating process. I'm not sure anyone could either.