I don’t often reference him, but Limbaugh lined this out nicely last Thursday and Friday.
It’s a big honkin’ money laundering scheme.
Unions pay dues, dues go to rats, rats keep the Unions employed and well paid, Unions pay more dues...
Every single state legislature should be writing a rule about members who “flee” to avoid a vote. Something like, if you’re gone more than X consecutive days, you are automatically counted as a Yea vote. Something, anything, to prevent this kind of chicanery from happening anywhere else again.
Says it all. Taxpayer funds going to socialist candidates. I know here in Tennessee it is coming to an abrupt halt. We are RTW so the screaming and yelling will be just a few socialists.
Yep, just as the union thug leaders will negotiate members demands to ensure members dues keep being deducted from payroll checks. The thugs need those dues to live high as well as keep Rat politicians elected.
Yeh Jimbo but the Tea Party is funded by Corporations and the Koch bros dontchyaknow.... At least the leftists keep chanting those hypnotic mantras of lies to soothe their troubled cores.
bttt
Make it like flight from justice laws.
Here is a report from 2000 that shows the waste of WEAC of at least $ 50 million a year times 10+ years === 1/2 billion dollars. According to Gov Walker this excess cost is now $68 million per year. WEAC controls 85% of teacher health insurance without competition.
http://www.wpri.org/Reports/Volume13/Vol13no8.pdf page 20
The market for teachers’health insurance in Wisconsin is characterized by several traits. The health insurance is determined through the collective bargaining process. The health insurance plans provided by the districts are rarely put out to bid. The WEAInsurance Corporation, an entity affiliated with the state’s largest teachers union, provides insurance coverage to roughly 85% of the districts. The peculiarities of this market suggest that competition between insurers to write health insurance coverage is severely limited in most districts. The current study reports the results of a statistical analysis that tested whether the WEAInsurance Corporation charges more for health insurance coverage than other insurers. The analysis controlled for various factors believed to be associated with the price of insurance coverage. The results suggest that the WEA Insurance Corporation does charge more for its insurance product than other insurers. Reform that would foster competition in the market for teachers’ health insurance would serve the interests of Wisconsin’s taxpayers and teachers. A model for reform is the health insurance pool for state employees. This is administered by the Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF), as is a similar pool available to Wisconsin public employers. On a statewide basis, savings that could accrue to school districts through participation in the state employee health insurance pool are estimated to be approximately $50,000,000 per year.
You might want to look at this admission by NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin - such an honest man he is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-piPkgAUo0w