Comments for A Union Maid Reported Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Sexual Assault at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.cepr.net Tue, 21 May 2013 17:51:47 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/a-union-maid-reported-dominque-strauss-kahns-sexual-assault#comment-9137 "This meant the housekeeper knew that she could make a complaint to management and not worry about being ridiculed or putting her job at risk. This fact would have been worth mentioning in the article. ' Well, maybe not "putting her job at risk", assuming she had a union with some spine that would go to bat for her. If you've never been a union member, you might naively make that assumption. How the union would insulate her from embarrassment and ridicule is unclear to me. - Chris Tue, 24 May 2011 06:10:06 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/a-union-maid-reported-dominque-strauss-kahns-sexual-assault#comment-9121 Sorry, but the satirical character of the comment didn't stand out, though after reading the Ben Stein comments, to which your comment alerted me, it then became a bit more apparent. Stein stands out, therefore, as the idiot. No subtlety intended. Granted that Strauss-Kahn should be fairly treated by the media which is more than is usually afforded to the female victims in such cases. However, Stein is over the top in regards his out roght grasping at straws in a speculative manner. Here is a particularly good critique of Ben's various inane points regarding the allegations against Strauss-Kahn; http://open.salon.com/blog/isandwich/2011/05/18/ben_steins_defense_of_dsk_economists_dont_rape_people - Jack Mon, 23 May 2011 11:56:12 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/a-union-maid-reported-dominque-strauss-kahns-sexual-assault#comment-9120 Jack, of course it is permitted. If you look on it as satire, it may take on a different light. - Jeff Z Mon, 23 May 2011 11:15:25 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/a-union-maid-reported-dominque-strauss-kahns-sexual-assault#comment-9113 Is it permissable on this site to point out that a comment, like the one posted above by izzatzo, is the opinion of an idiot? - Jack Mon, 23 May 2011 07:26:37 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/a-union-maid-reported-dominque-strauss-kahns-sexual-assault#comment-9112 Great stuff as usual, Mr. Baker. http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/a-union-maid-reported-dominque-strauss-kahns-sexual-assault - fairleft Mon, 23 May 2011 06:28:34 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/a-union-maid-reported-dominque-strauss-kahns-sexual-assault#comment-9093 Nonsense. The monopoly power of unions encourage perverse incentives via the over-reporting of false sexual attacks designed to exploit and subject the framed perpetrator to bribes and blackmail, especially when the hotel room in question goes for $3,000 a night. - izzatzo Sat, 21 May 2011 10:52:08 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/a-union-maid-reported-dominque-strauss-kahns-sexual-assault#comment-9091 Chances are greater of seeing an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and a Black Swan in the same tree than a journalist acknowledging the many, many, positive nonfinancial benefits of unions, even to those who are nonmembers and their families! (i.e.EVERYBODY: which includes Oligarchs and their families!) Meanwhile, the litany of obvious union shortcomings is frequently recited in the media, but not in an effort to understand their role or improve their performance but to stigmatize and weaken them. Thank you Beat the Press - Union Member Sat, 21 May 2011 07:48:34 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/a-union-maid-reported-dominque-strauss-kahns-sexual-assault#comment-9088 I don't want to minimize the value of being protected from on-the-job abuse. But I feel that the unions are failing their members in a very important way. They seem to suffer from Bernie Sanders' bias, his unwilling to think critically about Big Medicine. So they aren't pushing back against the cost inflation that leads to job losses. And they don't even have Sanders' excuse of being from a very small state. - Rachel Sat, 21 May 2011 05:46:48 +0100