Posted on 08/30/2009 1:29:03 PM PDT by Brilliant
Washington, D.C., has too many people who wrongly think the supply of federal dollars -- taxpayer dollars -- is infinite...
Buried in Capitol Hill's thousands of pages of health care reform proposals are provisions that would give $10 billion to union-backed retiree health plans. Many of those plans, such as the United Auto Workers', are woefully underfunded.
So it's no surprise that unions that helped elect President Obama -- including the UAW and the United Steelworkers -- support this multibillion-dollar giveaway of public money. And the prospect of health care reform cutting costs for their retiree health plans surely is a key factor in such unions' support of Washington's overall reform effort.
One expert says the $10 billion could be exhausted in less than two years. Already, labor advocates are saying the $10 billion won't be enough. So it's all too likely that when that funding runs out, Congress will give billions more to Democrats' union allies.
That's a compelling reason why this proposed boondoggle ought to die. But if that's not enough, consider the idiocy of a federal government that owns 61 percent of General Motors lavishing such largess on the UAW -- and the patent unfairness of taxpayers footing the bill for Big Labor's largely self-created woes.
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It’s also why the union thugs are the easiest to get to show up and play the part of AstroTurf fodder.
Wonder what cut their god(less)mother, Kathleen Sebelius, gets.
As a result of the poor economy lately, many retirement funds, both private and public, are underfunded. It’s just a matter of time until local, state and federal legislatures try to get the taxpayer to bail them out through increased taxes.
I’ll bet the clueless, braindead bobbleheads on the Sunday Morning Shows didn’t talk about this.
The unions are coming at us from all directions. The administration is funneling money to them in all of their shady deals. The health care bill carries a $10 billion dollar give-away for their retirees under aged 55 to 64. And worst of all, just imagine how many more government and SEIU union workers their will be if the health care bill passes. Their coffers will be running over with new dues payers.
they only comprise some 12-15% of the labor force if i’m not mistaken. Yet,since they feed cash to and vote for dems they get bailouts.
I have an idea. how about the unions write the rest of us a check for financing their lifestyle? for saving their jobs with the auto bailout?
Think about this maneuver. they contribute to dems,the dems bail them out,the dems take money from us. bastards.
I agree, it’s always about the money. BTW, can you explain for me the difference taking a bribe, and taking a campaign contribution? It seems that the entity (person) paying the money is always expecting something in return.
Yep, too bad for us that the campaign contribution is LEGAL!
bookmark.
Because there was not enough pork in the trillion dollar porkulus bill.
“As a result of the poor economy lately, many retirement funds, both private and public, are underfunded.”
Yep, and the financially strapped US Postal Service is now pleading for an exemption from the requirement that its health & retirement funds be fully funded, so we can easily see where all this is headed...
I don’t believe it should be Legal for Any Candidate for Public Office or Any Elected Official to EVER ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM ANYONE OTHER THAN AN ADULT HUMAN BEING THAT CAN LEGALLY CAST A VOTE FOR SAID PERSON. Receiving monies and gifts from Corporations is BRIBERY and Should be an automatic Death Sentence. Thats why we call them “representatives” instead of corporate shills.
Kill the Bill
The Unions contributed millions to Demos, so why don’t those dues monies go toward funding their union sponsored retiree’s health care insurance. Why pay for your own, when you can call in markers to get someone else to cover the costs? No better than mobsters. And I’m a retired Union member, just not affiliated with any of those jokers.
one of the many reasons.
They know that the more people read the harder it will be to pass.
They know that the honeymoon is over so Obama will actually be held accountable.
Pelosi’s credibility is in the tank.
The bill has so much control in it that even a liberal won’t want it if they can put the kool-aid down long enough and read the damn bill.
If it was Bush proposing this bill democrats would be burning effigies of him in front of the white house by now.
It is definitely a flawed system and many politicians have learned to “game the system”. But, I will also defend the right of any person to support, financially or whatever, the candidate of their choice. Corporations? Maybe not. Maybe we should make all donations be in the name of an individual.
Here is another "discovery" she has made from reading the bill: check out the provision on page 992 which creates the School Based Health Clinic Program. Yep, they mean to federalize school sick rooms. The feds will pay 80% of costs for schools that apply. To me, the real red flag here, is the staffing of these "sick rooms". I can only imagine that very school in the country will be hiring one or more "nurses?" who, I feel sure, will be dues-paying members of the SEIU (or other unions).
The more I read of the Stimulus, Health Care and Cap and Trade bills, the more I realize they are designed to grow union rolls. Just think of all the UNION jobs that will be created in Washington alone to administer and staff the huge bureaucracies that will run all of these programs!
Further (and bigger) concern.
If they succeed in giving this $10B to the unions, the next step will be to pour federal $$$ into all those woefully underfunded state/local PUBLIC employee plans. We’re talking HUNDREDS of BILLIONS! The states know they have this tidal wave heading for them, but they’ve hidden it hoping for a miracle. Now they see Obama as their miracle.
I can’t even imagine how hard I would fight if they suggest taking money from ME and giving it to some California bureaucrat who retired at 55 with a $200,000 per year pension!
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