Public Unions: Fiscal Destruction Of The U.S.

There are a myriad of issues that need to be addressed in the United States:  jobs, economy, taxes, illegal immigration. But the most important issue that needs to be addressed is public pension, salary and benefits reform.

Although the aforementioned issues are important, they won't have the collective fiscal improvement to the country that reining in the bloated pensions, salaries and benefits being received by government retirees and employees -- gained through strong-arming of politicians by public unions over the years -- across the country would garner.

Brian Blackwell