The labor union blocking protests against petitioners seeking signatures for the San Diego Comprehensive Pension Reform (CPR) continues. One core pitch they favor is the “identity theft” ruse — warning people that giving up their names and addresses to signature gatherers could result in fiscal devastation — or worse. The fact that millions upon millions of such signatures have been collected (often by labor union-financed petition drives) nationwide without a single documented case of identity theft is not mentioned.
But the most recent flyer they have been passing out summarizing this fake concern tells us perhaps more than they intended. The expensive color piece they passed out last weekend was “printed” single-sided on two photo-quality sheets of paper. Clearly it was not really printed, but rather reproduced on a copy machine.
And it’s funny to receive a flyer that is printed on two pages rather than one. No commercial copy shop would have produced such a single-sided flyer, so obviously it was made on a personal OR GOVERNMENT copy machine where the person making the copies didn’t know how to make two-sided copies (or care).
This “photo-quality” paper is VERY expensive — costing about 50 cents a sheet. Hence each two page flyer cost a dollar PLUS the color ink cost, which can be 50 cents more.
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/394895/Office-Depot-Brand-Premium-Photo-Paper/
It’s doubtful a home copier would have such expensive paper lying around in quantity, nor would an individual waste their own personal funds in this way. Surely the labor union bosses would not be stupid enough to waste union resources producing these expensive flyers on their own union copier.
Hence it seems quite possible that these flyers were reproduced at taxpayer expense. Government copiers certainly have some monitoring of usage, but obviously it’s likely the monitors are union members! The quickest and most surreptitious way to produce such flyers is to run them single-sided.
Okay, okay — it’s true. This is conjecture. I guess it IS possible
the union members are just dunderheads who can’t figure out how to save a buck. Certainly their disdain for controlling government costs reflects a spendthrift mentality.
Frankly, I must say that we proponents of CPR are delighted with the ignorance revealed in the production of these two page flyers. But the thought that — odds are — the taxpayer footed the bill for this blunder takes the joy out of the unions’ inadvertent revelation.
NOTE: Flyer is available for inspection if you contact me.