Feedback destroys everything

I learned in my physics and engineering classes that positive feedback ultimately destroys all machines/systems. A classic example is the rock concert feedback that can occur from the microphone to the speakers and back into the microphone.  What happens is a sound of a certain frequency makes it from the microphone to the speakers with a small amount of time-delay such that the wave (now amplified) is in sync with the original sound.  This goes in, gets amplified and goes back the microphone.  We no this happens when we hear that ominous screeching sound which makes us want to cover our ears.  The sound engineers hear this and act fast to stop it by turning off the microphone for a brief time to stop the feedback.  If they don't the concert goers are going to be witnesses to more than a concert as the speakers and amplifiers may explode when they reach their "breaking point".

So why do I bring this up?  Just to give you a physics lesson??   No.

Feedback systems also occur in our society as well, and just like physical systems they too will self-destruct unless we stop them.

The most obvious of these is the system we have in place in our public sector.  Here we have 3 parts (or players).

1) Public sector employees
2) SEIU (union)
3) Politicians.

The process is quite simple:
1) The union works with the politicians to get an INCREASE wages and benefits for their workers
     or to higher MORE workers

2) MORE WAGES results in an MORE DUES collected by the SEIU.

3) MORE DUES allows SEUI  to spend MORE money on the Politicians to get them re-elected. 

4) In thanks for getting them re-elected the politicians must go to step #1

The system will keep increasing wages ==> dues ==> political funding ==> wages until...

BOOM!

It blows up

This is now starting to play out in cities like Stockton California where the city is most likely going to have to go through bankruptcy to end the feedback cycle (for a time being).  Later it will play out at the state level as California is in a similar debt crisis from the same feedback system and is currently 16 billion dollars in the hole.

We need to take advice from a highly respected former President.  No not Ronald Reagan (you would think), but instead  Franklin D Roosevelt who said

This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable

 I think he also saw the stupidity of unions and politicians working together and the destructiveness of it all.

We all must follow Wisconsin's lead in drawing the line with public sector unions and prevent the feedback from destroying our states and eventually our nation.   Wisconsin did it right.  By allowing collective bargaining on NON-WAGE issues, more dues will not be collected by the unions and fed back to the politicians and it effectively stops the feedback loop.

Let's hope California catches on too.