Posted on 02/23/2011 4:38:57 PM PST by Slyscribe
The fleeing Democrats in Wisconsin and Indiana say they are protecting state workers, but they have plenty of self-interested reasons to hit the road. Their self-imposed exile and national Democrats' support show just how key Big Labor is to their fortunes.
Unions have long been a backbone of support for the Democratic Party. They have become even more important in recent years as they ramped up campaign efforts. Without them, Democrats have no chance of reversing the GOP's 2010 gains.
The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, the top public-sector union, spent a reported $87.5 million nationally in the 2010 election cycle — 99% for Democrats. The Chamber of Commerce, by contrast, spent $75 million.
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Co-dependent like a parasite and its host......
The thing in the article that caught my eye was this:
“While unions represent just 6.9% of the private sector, they represent 36.2% of the public sector, according to Labor Department data.”
Only 36.2% of the public sector is unionized? Really? It seems like 136%.
I’ve said on other threads: The teachers’ unions don’t work for the Democratic Party; it is the other way around (and all evidence indicates this; the Dem Party is the political arm of the teachers’ unions).
The absent Indiana legislators are having their motel rooms and meals paid for by the State democrat Central Committee. Guess where the central committee gets its money?
Nobody in the local Indy media seems smart enough to connect those dots.
The “government” (us) works FOR the (teacher’s) Union....the Democrat party is just their marketing arm.
FDR warned of exactly this scenario.....
That’s right.
I fail to see why unions exist at all, when, you can just vote for the Bolshecrat and avoid the expense of the middle man.
How is it that salaries of government workers and teachers (also government workers) that are paid by the taxpayers allow it to be legal for them to give 99.9% of political donations to one party — the Democratic Party.
Why has this not been challenged in the Supreme Court?
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