Posted on 06/11/2008 7:13:41 PM PDT by JohnRLott
How would you like elections without secret ballots? To most people, the notion of getting rid of secret ballots is absurd. This is modern-day America. Such an idea could not be seriously considered, right?
People support secret balloting for very obvious reasons. Politics frequently generates hot tempers. People can put up yard signs or wear political buttons if they want. But not everyone feels comfortable making his or her political positions public. Many would rather vote without fearing that their choice will offend or anger someone else.
Secret balloting has solved another potential problem: vote buying, which they essentially ended in U.S. elections. After all, why pay people if you couldn't be sure how they voted?
But if Barack Obama becomes president, secret ballots seem destined to end for at least one type of election: union certifications.
Currently, when 50 percent of workers in a company sign statements to unionize, that merely sets up a second stage, where workers vote by secret ballot to determine if the company would be unionized. Under the new proposal, using a system called “Card Check,” unionization would occur as soon as half the workers had signed cards stating that they favor union representation.
In other words, up until now, a worker could placate union supporters and sign a statement saying that he wanted a union and then vote against the union when he was protected by the secrecy of the voting booth. (Continued)
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Scratch a Liberal, get a totalitarian.
I don’t give a rats patooie what other countries think about the US or how I live.
They can just take a flying leap.
Yes Obama you can drive your SUV, eat at the money losing Senate diner and be as cool in the summer and as warm as you wish in wintertime.
You know I think I heard that some where before.
That's more accurate (I'm assuming the D's will keep their Congressional majorities).
As for the Communism reference, I'm waiting for the Liberal Media to start screaming "McCarthyism!". After all, there are no American Communists; just Liberals, Progressives, Democrats, ACLU members, etc. ;)
Obama’s first act day one will be to authorize the unionization of all TSA employees, which Bush has been fighting all along.
The Democrats favor the politics of thugery.
Great minds...;-)
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