There is NO WAY that it should be legal for these organizations to buy legislators that take taxpayer money and funnel it to their members, OR to funnel it to those who vote for their handouts. The exhorbitant pay, benefits, and their gold-plated retirement plans have driven most businesses off-shore, where the wages and benefits can allow competitive production. In the case of Government Unions, the extortion is running rampant, and cities, states, and nationally we are bankrupted by the sqeeze of tax-funded payouts.
“Unions in the private sector (and even moreso in the Public Sector) or now functionally no more than organized-crime syndicates, extorting money from taxpayers, and funneling it to themselves and favored politicians.”
Unions have always had the reputation of sleeping in the same bed with the mob since the 1930s and nothing has really changed.
Of course our current Prez welcomes them all the White House. I live in NYC - I still believe that Bloomberg has much of the fault. His statement that we “should all go to the theatre” shows his elitist uncaring attitude.
That pretty much says it all. Spot on!
70 or so years ago many public officials called the unions out as communist organizations, and they were right. But, as usual, people succumbed to their greed and turned a deaf ear.