Philip Howard

The first is no organization works unless it's manageable. And that requires adaptive choices at every level of responsibility. Government is unmanageable. The second takeaway is we can't give public unions a veto on how government is run. Democracy exists to put executives in office who have the authority to try to run government for the benefit of the public.

The first is no organization works unless it's manageable. And that requires adaptive choices at every level of responsibility. Government is unmanageable. The second takeaway is we can't give public unions a veto on how government is run. Democracy exists to put executives in office who have the authority to try to run government for the benefit of the public.

And that can never work if the public unions have the veto. And my third takeaway is this is a problem of constitutional dimension. And we should understand that when democracy has, in effect, become a spoil system with billions of dollars for one purpose put into it, that the best solution probably lies in the courts. And it's based on the inability of democracy to do its job.

And that can never work if the public unions have the veto. And my third takeaway is this is a problem of constitutional dimension. And we should understand that when democracy has, in effect, become a spoil system with billions of dollars for one purpose put into it, that the best solution probably lies in the courts. And it's based on the inability of democracy to do its job.