Posted on 11/04/2010 12:42:35 PM PDT by Andrea19
...If Obama and his fellow Democrats wish to root out shady campaign contributions from special interests, they needn’t look farther than their own doorstep. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the largest outside spender for the 2010 elections has been a public sector union, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), which spent more than the Chamber of Commerce and American Crossroads/Crossroads GOP, the two biggest Republican spenders. Rounding out the top five spenders this cycle are the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Education Association (NEA), which combined with AFSCME in spending tens of millions of dollars advancing Democratic candidates. That so much of the Left’s war chest comes from labor unions—many of which force membership upon workers—should be the real scandal going into this election.
Fortunately, the public hasn’t been taken in by the current administration’s hypocrisy. In the same Fox News poll cited above, labor unions scored 38% in public approval: 4% behind Democrats, 6% behind Republicans, and 10% behind Barack Obama’s whipping boy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but when it comes to the Democrats and their union cronies, their time for fooling around at all is approaching its end.
Read more: http://www.atr.org/obama-attack-chamber-commerce-backfires-a5588#ixzz14KwulhKm
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Public employee unions should be outlawed: cops, fire, AFSCME, SEIU, every stinking damn one of them. Let cities pay the going rate for their services. If the employees are so good and their services so valuable, pay market rate. Let the municipalities and states and the federal government compete for the best and the brightest.
And put the union leadership out of the ELECTION BUYING BUSINESS!!!!
Cops and firemen put their lives on the line and shouldn’t be compared to the clerk who files welfare claims.
In CA, law enforcement unions backed pathetic Liberals while the cop on the street didn’t. When will worker bees figure out that they’re being used and their money stolen?
When someone runs for city council or county board, they have to get the endorsement of fire and polic unions. They do good work but the labor contracts are exhorbitant because the electeds negotiating the contracts are in the pocket of the unions. Talk about conflict of interest.
ALL PUBLIC UNIONS MUST BE ABOLISHED. No exceptions.
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